RE: How can we make adults believe in Santa?
March 23, 2015 at 9:04 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2015 at 10:19 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(March 23, 2015 at 7:22 am)Nestor Wrote: Whoa. I thought the first picture was Italian Jesus but then I recalled that's just Catholicism. Pretty neat. Where'd these come from?
Yeah - at first I thought it was Tom Selleck...
Apparently - people painted them and donated them to Orthodox Christian churches in Russia. What exactly was their reasoning is difficult to say, especially that the word "reasoning" is rarely the right one to use in the context of religion. But it's not that surprising, considering that stalinist regime was constructed to mimic and replace religion and Stalin himself studied at a seminary, to become a priest. I think Hitchens explains a lot of it quite well here:
EDIT: If I remember correctly, he wrote more about the similarities between Russian communism and religion in "God Is Not Great".
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
