This is something I have struggled with,
literally, every year since our oldest was born. I want so much to give
into the whole myth of Santa and insist on his magical existence, but I
also recognize how much that challenges (and sometimes
contradicts) my wife's and my efforts to raise out kids with a
specific, Biblical world-view... And that the revelation of Santa's
non-existence after years of claiming him to be real can erode the truth
of God's existence in a child's mind. This is the SuperRad Stance: God is real, Santa is pretend. But our family loves to pretend - I have chipmunks, princesses, jedis, and superheros running around the house more often than I do my real kids; and my daughter calls me Peter (Pan) as often as she calls me Daddy.
So Christmas has become a festive time of celebrating the Truth of God's existence and Jesus' miraculous birth, but in celebrating that there are a lot of traditions and legends that have developed over time - one of them is Santa. And for as long as the kids want to pretend Santa visits our house on Christmas Eve - I'm game.
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