Welcome back to Shemus Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and today I want to tackle a controversial question

even amongst Christians. Should parents lie to their kids about Santa Claus? My position is simple.

If you want to tell them the true story of St. Nicholas, that's great. If you and your kids want to play

Santa, go for it. But lying is always wrong. You shouldn't lie to anyone. You definitely shouldn't

lie to the kids. You're meant to be teaching right from wrong. And you. You shouldn't lie to anyone. You definitely shouldn't lie to the kids.

You're meant to be teaching right from wrong. And you most especially shouldn't lie to honor the

birth of Jesus Christ. Some of you are already disagreeing with this thinking I'm pearl

clutching or being legalistic. After all, it's just Santa Claus, right? It's harmless. It's not

really lying. And ironically, perhaps nobody has spent more time

defending the pro-lying side of the Santa Claus argument as Dennis Prager.

Every year, I can't remember how many years already, many years, decades, I have devoted an

hour of my radio show to making the case for people who celebrate Christmas

to celebrate Santa Claus. Because I had heard and read Christians saying, or just Gentiles

in general, non-Jews, oh, we don't want to lie to our children. It's not good to lie to your child.

But here's the thing. Those Christian parents who say they shouldn't lie to their kids are right.

We shouldn't lie to anyone. Proverbs 1222 says, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord.

Jesus is the way, the truth in the life, whereas the devil has nothing to do with the truth,

because there is no truth in him, for he is a liar and the father of lies. St. Paul tells us not

to lie to anyone. Revelation 21 describes the lot of all liars as the second death, which means damnation.

Now Christians today often treat lying as kind of a trivial offense,

but in the Bible, it's condemned in the strongest language. The catechism warns that lying

is to be condemned by its very nature, meaning that it is always wrong to lie. Doesn't matter

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