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Just like kids who believe in santa and hear the songs that press that they will be rewarded with great gifts if they are good this year, adults who believe in god read the bible and go to church and are told that if they do good things and lead a charitable life, they will be rewarded with gods favor and a spot in heaven.
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I agree that the idea sounds plausible, but it falls short when being applied to Christianity. Salvation in Christianity is supposed to come through the grace of God by faith, not because of an individual's actions or how well they lived a moral life. IMHO, Christianity - and most every religion that I'm aware of - is far too complex an institution to make such an analogy work.