Believing in Santa. Believing in God/Satan.

Ah yes, but if you disappoint Santa the most you’ll get is a lump of coal.

If you disappoint God (the type some Christian’s adhere to) you get to spend eternity suffering in a blaze of hellfire.

This, in my mind, would lead a person to look for as much evidence as possible-to make sure the religion they adhere to is the proper one, as opposed to the one they were born into.

There is an ancient ritual which is reputed to stop witches in which you may spill a box of matches or needles and the poor compulsive witch will have to count each and every one before proceeding.

With Old Nick you can attempt the sin of glutteny to bribe and dissuade Him. Leaving cookies and milk in your living room area is reputed to work although I have it from a good source that Jamaican rum and good cigars will work better.

Sure he would. He wants to be popular, right? He wants to recruit kids to his “side,” right?

Satan is behind everything in the world today. You just have to know where to look and how to interpret. :smiley:

I thought that was either vampires or leprachauns (sp?).

Of course not, God can be experienced.

Millions have experienced the presence of God. It is so awesome that you won’t mistake it for anything else.
Love

You will never disappoint God, only yourself.

Love

In defense of poor old Santa:

http://www.ndeweb.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=38&post=595#POST595

Love

No offense Lekatt, but why do people have all sorts of different ‘experiences’ towards different deities altogether?

What are you saying? God is not disappointed when I go to Hell?

You just wrote what? The list in your OP? That is doubtful.

Question asked: Does Satan speak English as his primary language?

My Answer: Yes.

Rebuttal: Cite?

My Answer: I wrote it. (pronoun “it” = Yes).

The top ten list is not my own, nor did I claim it to be; I found it to be a fitting ending to my point.

There is no copyright, or cited author.

Please read what I write, in context of disclosure, before responding.

Question asked: Does Satan speak English as his primary language?

My Answer: Yes.

Rebuttal: Cite?

My Answer: I wrote it. (pronoun “it” = Yes).

The top ten list is not my own, nor did I claim it to be; I found it to be a fitting ending to my point.

There is no copyright, or cited author.

Please read what I write, in context of disclosure, before responding.

Actually, judging from that post, the antecedent to which your valued pronoun refers can be easily misconstrued.

Regardless, a discussion of endophoras was not my point. When you post what you did without an upfront acknowledgment of the origin of the majority of your OP (if you don’t know to whom you should attribute the list, at the very least you should mention from where you got it), it looks as if you are claiming authorship. It shouldn’t be left up to the readers to discern when you have and have not lifted your writing.

In addition, keep in mind that copyrights don’t have to be present in a work for it to have copyright protection. To further clarify, that list was copyrighted upon creation:

FYI.

Here’s a good link on Santa Claus, the great imposter:

http://av1611.org/othpubls/santa.html

I’m taking it as seriously as you are.

They don’t, there is only the Oneness of God, or whatever name you wish to use. All see the same image, but through their filters of belief picked up in physical living. When they die, everyone sees the same as the same.

Love

No, If you go to hell, it will be your choice. Why would you want to go there?

God is Love all the time everytime. Unconditional Love

Love

And this happens to be the Christian image?

Holding off on the Christian angle, if what you say is correct, then it would mean that all religions are wrong.

You didn’t answer my question at all, but you brought up a new problem.

If it’s our choice whether or not we go to Hell (I assume you mean after death), then why is there a Hell? No one would rationally choose to go there.