Is Santa a god? (part 1)
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, but is Santa Claus merely a magical entity or does he rise to the status of a god? In this pair of STBYM episodes, Robert and Joe discuss the general attributes of a deity and consider the awesome, reality-warping powers of the one we call Kris Kringle, Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and of course Santa Claus.
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| 1:50.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Glory Remind, my name is Robert Lamb. |
| 1:59.0 | And I'm Joe McCormick and today Santa Claus is coming to town. |
| 2:03.0 | That's right, this is an episode about Santa Claus. It's also an episode about gods and our ideas about gods are gods, concepts, and what that all means. |
| 2:14.0 | And then we are going to get into the question of whether Santa is a god or not. I do want to just have a couple of quick reminders here as we dive into this one. First of all, yes, this episode has to do with Santa. |
| 2:28.0 | But if you are tempted to listen to it outside of the holiday season, no worries because there's going to be a lot of talk that does not directly apply to Santa Claus. |
| 2:36.0 | Sure, this is an episode about the cognitive science of religion. |
| 2:39.0 | And finally, we will be discussing the magic of Santa Claus in this episode. So just keep that in mind, parents, if you're listening with your children. |
| 2:47.0 | Sure. All right, so most of us would not say that Santa Claus is a god, right? I mean, we don't necessarily, well, maybe we're not always able to define God in a dictionary definition kind of way. |
| 3:00.0 | But you have an intuitive sense of how this word is used. And for some reason Santa Claus doesn't usually fit into that definition, right? That intuitive definition. |
| 3:10.0 | Right. Even if you are, let's say a child who is a Santa fundamentalist, who believes in, you know, very literally in Santa Claus, even then I don't think they would necessarily confuse the idea of Santa Claus with the idea of, say, the Judeo-Christian deity. |
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