Jodou1

This is mainly for people who disbelieve in the religion they were raised on.

Which did you take harder?

Accepting your views on religion, I.E. the God you were raised on most likely did not exist. OR

Realizing Santa wasn't real?

I think for me I have to say Santa. I think I was somewhat freed when I came to my own religious beliefs. It wasn't all that different for Santa in my case, I figured that out for myself as well at age eight.

It was during Easter when I realized my parents always knew exactly where all the eggs that me and my sister did not find were. I stormed downstairs in a fit and asked them if they were the ones hiding the eggs. They assured me the easter bunny simply told them where he had hidden the eggs, I didn't believe them.

I retreated upstairs with the new found realization that the Easter Bunny was false, and that wasn't so bad, then it hit me. All of a sudden I started thinking about the tooth fairy and Santa Clause, then I ran back downstairs. When I confronted my parents with this news, they looked at my older sister and said "Did you tell him!?" which was all the confirmation I needed.

Maybe it was because I was eight when I realized Santa was fake, and nearly twenty when I made my way away from religion, but I still think Santa was the hardest pill to swallow.

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Wait a minute. Why are talking trash on Santa? That isn't nice!!



















Actually, Santa was the hard one to take.

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Jodou1

and if we're not nice, he knows! Coal for me ; ;

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Santa, of course, he had a real impact on my life.

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GX

I dont remember ever believing in santa. I remember loving christmas and the presents. I guess you could call me a santa agnostic when I was a kid. I put it to the test one year when I was around 6 or 7 with a mall santa and made a huge toy list to give him and didnt get any of them. Thats when I became a santa atheist. From then on, I made it a habit of telling my folks what I wanted for christmas and from then on got some (not all) of the things I requested. It was actually an illuminating experience, not hard at all.

Finding out there was no "hell" for the assholes of the world was a little hard at first, but I soon got over it.

debdodd

definitely it would be fairy godmother for me .... I though all girls had one ...... who cares about a fat guy in a red suit ... it was all about the fairy godmother and prince charming!


My fairy godmother turned out to be the "fu*k you fairy" that sat on my left shoulder bringing me all kinds of grief for a time .... but now whenever she shows up again I flick the little bitch off my left shoulder hoping she will visit someone else for a while.


It's gotten to be a joke with some of my friends ..... whenever something lousy happens in their life ... they say the "fu*k you fairy" is visiting and has caused whatever and they do the flicking off thing the left shoulder thing ..... I'm not joking .... a few of us have also tried turning around 3 times counterclockwise 'cause then it makes her dizzy and she falls off your shoulder hence breaking your bad luck .....

obviously my friends and I need either to get therapy or get a life

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GX

Wow Deb! You had us guys goin for a while there thinking this was some kind of nympho fairy that tells women to drop all inhibitions and go for it! Hey, well maybe she is and you and your female friends have misintepreted her message! In that case you should take it upon yourself to spread the true message of this wonderful fairy to all womankind! That would surely advance the cause of world peace!

Cleric_of_Reason

I'm going with the religion on this one. Not so much because I had a hard time coming to grips with what i started to believe about God, but the fact that my parents aren't very accepting of my decision to renounce Christianity.
It's still pretty uncomfortable whenever they ask me why I'm still not going to church.

I figured out the Santa thing when I was eight as well. I caught my grandpa bringing in the bike late Christmas eve. Didn't really bother me. It was an awesome bike. =D

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xxkayxx

Neither came as a surprise to me. I left out a present for Santa one yr, and found it in my dads room the next day. I was kind of kappy actually....nobody watching to see if i was naughty or nice.

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greywolf90

definately santa for me. it was because while god was something i figured out for myself, santa was something that came unexpectedly and shocking. i can't remember how old i was, but apparently my older brother figured out santa and blabbed about it to me one night before christmas. so within a minute, something i had assumed to be truth suddenly became a lie.

i was very religious, so god could have been worse. if my parents one day told me that god wasn't real and they just made him up to keep me from breaking the rules, i imagine it would feel like my world turning upside down. fortunately for me, this wasn't the case. i started exploring my beliefs on my own. this gradually lead to questions and doubts until i finally decided to break away, and then i came here.

cleric of reason, you have my condolences. your situation makes me aprreciate having parents who don't go to church or talk about religion.

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