Bob Hayes Online

Most parents agonize a little bit about Santa Claus. What do we tell our kids? Religious people, especially, have to consider the nature and nurturance of belief, and what we owe our kids. This is being discussed In the Agora. Sample:

I am of the very un-festive opinion that lying to your children about anything is bound to have negative consequences, but particularly when it involves a figure like Santa. In the eyes of some this makes me a Grinch or Scrooge, but I’m not sure that’s altogether a bad thing.

I am in agreement. It doesn’t ruin Christmas for the kids, and they don’t generally ask until they’re ready to know. My daughter is five; she still sort of believes, but when she asks me, I tell her the truth. I tell it gently and in a way supportive of loving Christmas and Santa and thinking Rudolph and Clarise is the greatest love story in history - because that’s all mythology and storytelling that she embraces.

(Hat tip: Evangelical Outpost.)

Facing the “Human Rights” Commission - the de facto kangaroo court that is stomping on the liberties of Canadians - Ezra Levant lays down the smack. A brief excerpt:

For a government bureaucrat to call any publisher or anyone else to an interrogation to be quizzed about his political or religious expression is a violation of 800 years of common law, a Universal Declaration of Rights, a Bill of Rights and a Charter of Rights. This commission is applying Saudi values, not Canadian values.

Go, Ezra. Read, as they say, the whole thing.

(H/T David Thompson.)