The Great Santa Debate

Well, I don't know about these kids, but I know Santa Claus is real. I may not have received that new Mercedes Benz I asked for, but I did get a Matchbox car to put on my desk at work, and who brung it and put it in my Christmas stocking if not Santa?

It All Began with Santa

It all began with Santa. In hindsight, I see that it was questions about him that primed the pump of critical inquiry for me. Up until the age of 6 or 7, I believed in Santa just as fervently as I believed in Jesus and the nativity stories, in Heaven as a place from which my grandfather--along with God--watched my every move, and in Hell as a place where the bad people go.

From Raymond D. Bradley's From Fundamentalist to Freethinker: It All Began with Santa