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Why the God / Santa Claus analogy is stupid

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Why the God / Santa Claus analogy is stupid
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RE: Why the God / Santa Claus analogy is stupid
March 5, 2026 at 3:45 pm
For one, I have a photo of Santa.

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RE: Why the God / Santa Claus analogy is stupid
March 6, 2026 at 5:13 am
(March 5, 2026 at 12:05 am)FreethinkingSceptic Wrote: Some atheists claim that believing in a God is the equivalent of believing in Santa Claus, but this analogy is full of holes.

We call them analogies rather than equivalences because the comparison is imperfect. For example, we know that, unlike god, St. Nicholas may have been based on a real person.
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RE: Why the God / Santa Claus analogy is stupid
March 6, 2026 at 7:47 am
Before you criticize analogies one should know how analogies work in the first place. You do not.
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