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The good and evil that have and continue to be the foundations for societies, are I believe not one nor the either but simply peoples ideas about good and evil.
The existence of of these things, particularly evil, forces people to question the world around them. Nothing about Santa's nature forces people to question anything besides the reason we lie to our children and set ourselve broke for the new year.
People, and I am not speaking of myself, experience irrational revelations and 'mirraculous' happenings, and they often tend to relate these experiences to the divine. The same cannot be said for Santa. Certainly it can be argued that pschyzophrenics (?sp) see things, so maybe anyone who's had a revelation is pschyzophrenic, but I think the relatedness of revelations and the repetition of the same or near same message lends some sort of basis to these claims.
Besides that, 3 of the worlds major religions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, are all very similar and descend from one man, Abraham. In the grand scheme of things the differences that religions fight and war over are much more the making of human greed and desire for power than anything else. In my view they're all quite compatible with one and the same ultimate deity, whatever that is.
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