Atheists, did you ever belive in me or the tooth fairy or santa claus?

Im being serious. My personally I never really really believed in santa claus that much, guess i never thought about it that much. And my parents never fed me any of this stuff about the easter bunny or the tooth fairy. and I know you dont believe in god.





But did you ever believe in santa claus, the tooth fairy, or the easterbunny? Or could your roots of atheism be traced back to this?

Atheists, did you ever belive in me or the tooth fairy or santa claus?
This is a good question. I wouldn't say I'm atheist but I'd call myself an agnostic. I stopped believing in Santa etc... at a very early age (4 or 5?) with out much outside influence. I went to church as a young boy too, yet the concept of faith, organized religion, and an all knowing God always seemed silly to me. Just like the Easter Bunny. Now that I think about it, I definitely believe that it played a role in my lack of those beliefs today.
Reply:ohhhh yeeaahhh!
Reply:Roots, heh heh, you said roots and asked about the tooth fairy. The first time I lost a tooth, I woke up as my father was slipping the quarter under the pillow. That must be it, yeah.
Reply:There are no 'roots' of atheism - it is simply not-believing.





It isn't a movement or a religion.





for the record.





Easter bunny - no


santa - no


tooth faery - no
Reply:I did, and I used to believe in god too until I started studying religion.
Reply:Yes, I believed in Santa and the Easter Bunny until I was 10. I stopped believing in the Tooth Fairy before that.





No, my Atheism is not traced back to that. I stopped believing before then because I started to grow up and got an education. The more I learned, the more it confirmed it. There is no god.





I nearly died in 2004 and that was the final bit of proof. There is no god.
Reply:hey I'll believe in you if you promise to bring me some easter eggs this year
Reply:And you needed to pose as God to ask this? Sorry, I just don't get that ... seems a little demeaning to me to pose as one you are asking about when he is the Almighty according to the Christian beliefs. I'm Christian and some of my friends are atheist, they could never really answer it when I asked where their concepts came from. I think it's mostly a combination of how a person is raised and how they form into their own person from that.
Reply:Well I was raised catholic so yes I did believe in them . I learned the truth about them long before I decided to become an Atheist .
Reply:I believed in Santa till I was about 4. Never believed in the Tooth fairy or Easter bunny.
Reply:My Mother was a super fundie who taught me that Santa was the work of the devil. So....no I didn't.
Reply:Yup.





My faith in the easter bunny and santa was crushed when I happened to stumble into my parent's closet twice one year.





One at easter, where I noticed a candy basket with my name on it.





Another at christmas, when I found my christmas presents.





I figured the tooth fairy was the same.








I was honestly crushed, but got over it quickly when I received both gifts anyway.
Reply:Believed in all of them...and was totally disappointed when I was told they aren't real. I even went a whole 2 more Christmases not believing my parents about Santa. They didn't know what to do.
Reply:Um I used to be a fanatic Jesus-loving, easter bunny f***ing, santa trusting child.





It was fun.





Anyway, I grew up.
Reply:Yeah but never in god
Reply:santa claus is a saint (saint nicholas)


so when he ain't working his christmas gig he is in heaven with jesus and all the other saints. He brings his elves and reindeers


too. Jesus does threesomes with an elf and rudolf.
Reply:I believed in Santa until I was 8, I never believed in the Tooth Fairy, because my parents never told me. I believed in the Easter Bilby until I was 8 as well.
Reply:same here ,never believe in santa claus and so on, i knew everything was coming from my parents . I am a Atheists but i dont know if there is possibly a connection.
Reply:I'm an Agnostic, which is essentially half-Atheist, so I'm gonna go ahead and take a shot at this...





1) The "roots of Atheism", as you call it, don't originate from either a belief or NON-belief in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, OR the Easter Bunny. That's just silly.





2) What on earth does Atheism have to do with any of the above???





3) And by the way, Atheists don't believe in ANY deity -- not just the Christian God. "Theism" = belief in a god or gods. "A-" = without. Ergo, Atheism = WITHOUT belief in a god or gods.
Reply:Yes, WE ALL believed in the tooth fairy or Santa Clause. We were CHILDREN and these are ideas that are designed to appal to children and used to exert SOME control over them. BUT, as the world goes on, our minds are expanded. A mind expanded to new ideas cannot never be brought back to the original thought.





As a for instance, IF you as a girl are taught to BELIEVE in Santa Clause and he turrns out to be your rich Uncle Charlie, your mind has beed expanded. Once Uncle Charlie get 5-15 for being a pervert your world is shattered for a while. But what if, at the ripe old age of 17, a NEW Sugar Daddy comes into your life. Your mind expands AGAIN to take in the new idea. Again, you will not want to go back to Uncle Charlie.





The ONLY problem here in not the expanding of the mind incrementally, that is taking place naturally. The REAL problem is that of STILL believing that Santa Clause exists, as Santa Clause, Uncle Charlie,of the lastest incarnation of Sugar Daddy.





Atheism is the throwing off (as childish thoughts) of a conceptual Santa Clause-in ANY form. Religion and the belief in a wrathful or benevolent God is the failure of a childs mind to mature. It is the insatiable desire to want to believe. It is born of a fear of possibly being alone. Is it the arrogant idea that we as a species, are somehow "central" to all of the grand elements of the universe.





The sad part of this belief system is that in SPITE of all of the evidence collected in the last 5 thousands years to the contrary, that we are IN FACT not central, not the chosen species, NOT the chosen planet, we STILL defend and propagate a belief system that was deemed sufficient to explain the workings of the world when no one could read, write, or see beyond the horizon or behind the clouds.





That is NOT a strong basis for supporting a belief in god, and that kind of thinking (constant belief in the supernatural) does NOT lead to the mindset of atheism. Quite the opposite.
Reply:atheists?


is that when you dont believe in god ?


if so, thats me


and i believed in santa but nothing else


:)
Reply:Until I was like 8.....


But, I'm not an atheist though!