[Misc] How Old Were You When You Stopped Believing In Father Christmas ?

[Zeberdi]

I hope I’m not being out of line although why would you be celebrating Christmas if you are Jewish?

You are. And not for the first time being unnecessarily personal about my Jewish identity.

I am not orthodox and have never claimed to be on NSC or anywhere else nor claimed ever to be a religious Jew not that it’s anything to do with you or anyone else on this forum how I spend Christmas.

Christmas is celebrated by millions who don’t subscribe to its religious meaning including by you presumably - it is a national holiday time in the West.

Christmas was never a religious celebration in our family but always a time for the wider family to be together, share gifts and express our love for each other and for my Dad to take much needed time off work to spend quality time with us. I never had a problem with other people spending Christmas like that.

That said, the idea that vicars and bishops should have nothing to do with Christmas though is laughable. It is still an important Christian festival in the Christian religion however you and I celebrate.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

What!!! …you mean he isn’t




you’ll be saying the earth isn’t flat next

…..and Lewis Dunk is in decline.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Children of 11 who burst into tears on being told Father Christmas doesn't exist need to grow a pair and get with the programme.

Frankly, the harder and faster their delusions are crushed the better. There's far worse things than that waiting for them.

I hope the vicar was openly laughing in their stupid little faces.

 

[Justice]

You are. And not for the first time being unnecessarily personal about my Jewish identity.

I am not orthodox and have never claimed to be on NSC or anywhere else nor claimed ever to be a religious Jew not that it’s anything to do with you or anyone else on this forum how I spend Christmas.
Christmas was never a religious celebration in our family but always a time for the wider family to be together, share gifts and express our love for each other and for my Dad to take much needed time off work to spend quality time with us. I never had a problem with other people spending Christmas like that.

That said, the idea that vicars and bishops should have nothing to do with Christmas though is laughable. It is still an important Christian festival in the Christian religion however you and I celebrate.

I’ve never brought up the subject before with you. Not sure where you got your first sentence from.
Spot on with your last sentence

 

[fork me]

Spoiler alert- he doesn't exist

LIES!

 

[Zeberdi]

I’ve never brought up the subject before with you. Not sure where you got your first sentence from.
Spot on with your last sentence

I meant, it is not the first time that people on NSC have been unnecessarily personal about my being Jewish - I was criticised recently on a food thread ffs for suggesting a breakfast that contained pork when I have never claimed to be a practising Jew…people just like a dig and thinking they are being clever by trying to point out hypocrisy that doesn’t exist.

 

[Justice]

I meant, it is not the first time that people on NSC have been unnecessarily personal about my being Jewish - I was criticised recently on a food thread ffs for suggesting a breakfast that contained pork when I have never claimed to be a practising Jew…people just like a dig and thinking they are being clever by trying to point out hypocrisy that doesn’t exist.

 

[fork me]

On a more serious note, this was a stupid thking for him to say. I'd guess that nearly all 10 and 11 year olds don't believe any more, but there may be the odd one or two, probably mainly kids with a neurodivergence issue that still do.

I'm a secondary school teacher working with students from 11 to 18, and even with my older classes we play along as if it's real, even though clearly none of them still believe. It's a good bit of banter, and if there are any that do it doesn't ruin it for them.

I played Santa at our school's Christmas Village this year, and I told the kids beforehand that I wouldn't be there because I had to go to the North Pole to supervise the elves so that the real one could come to Cyprus. The elves stop making toys if no-one is watching them.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I never believed in him.

The idea of some fat **** crawling down our chimney and millions of others in a few hours struck me as bollocks as soon as I learnt language.

I mean, Christ!

So you're not just a miserable old git .... you were a miserable young git as well.

 

[albionalba]

When they started tracking his sleigh on Flight Radar.

 

[METALMICKY]

Surely the title of this thread should have included ' SPOILERS '.

 

[The Mole]

When I was about six my brother showed me where all the presents were hidden

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Unbeknown to me my Dad had a Father Christmas outfit and would wear it to surprise me every year. At about the age of 8 I noticed that Santa wore a pair of hush puppies exactly the same as my Dads. The next year he had glasses the same as my Uncle.

 

[papachris]

Spoiler alert- he doesn't exist

Hampshire pupils 'sob' as vicar discusses existence of Santa

The vicar told children that Father Christmas did not exist during a Religious Education lesson.

www.bbc.co.uk

The above article made me chuckle. 10 and 11 ? I'm not even sure I ever believed in him after about 6.

When I was about 5, my older brother and me hatched a plan to catch him. My brother chickened out and fell asleep. I saw the doorway open and there he was standing, looking remarkably like the physique of my Dad, and I hid under the bed clothes. I remember getting out of bed and having a feel of the presents.

A bit rich of a vicar to disclose that Father Christmas doesn't exist when he is actively pushing another person that doesn't exist!

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

What!!! …you mean he isn’t




you’ll be saying the earth isn’t flat next

beat me to it….

@Eeyore going on ignore……, ruining Christmas

 

[Birdie Boy]

You’re talking nonsense. I’ve met the real one.

Me too, in Lapland!

 

[Happy Exile]

I was about 7 and asked why the local shop was selling “stocking fillers” and was told. Mini-Exile is nearly 17 and we’ve never told her…we say it’s up to her if she believes or not but he might not come if she doubts (cue much eye-rolling and derision, though she loves keeping the excitement going for much smaller cousins).

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

A bit rich of a vicar to disclose that Father Christmas doesn't exist when he is actively pushing another person that doesn't exist!

But maybe he isn’t! Vicars can have their doubts too!

 

[Denis]

I can’t believe how gullible I was, but it wasn’t until I was 9 that I asked Mum if there really was a Father Christmas. This was in the 1950’s, we didn’t discuss it at school, so I probably wasn’t the only ‘believer’. Christmas was never the same until I had children and grandchildren of my own.

 

[jcdenton08]

SPOILERS!!