{"id":1970,"date":"2010-12-13T11:04:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T16:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2010-12-13T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T16:04:19","slug":"you-can%e2%80%99t-prove-santa-doesn%e2%80%99t-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Prove Santa Doesn\u2019t Exist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one thing that Christians really hate, it is when atheists compare God to Santa Claus. I do not want to do that here, however I do want to make a point about God using Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>There are obvious differences between God and Santa Claus. While Santa Claus knows when you are awake and knows when you are naughty or nice, God apparently knows everything. Santa Claus may have his elves create toys, but God is alleged to have created the whole universe. So there really isn\u2019t a comparison to make between the two, except for this. Neither can be falsified.<\/p>\n<p>When an atheist says he or she does not believe that a god exists, Christians are quick to point out that you can\u2019t prove a negative. In order for an atheist to know that God doesn\u2019t exist, we would have to claim to know the entire set of facts that is the Universe and see that God is not among those facts. So Christians will assert hat we can\u2019t prove that God does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll in January of next year, I will unveil my Ontological Proof for the Non-Existence of God, but that is beside the point. The point here is that by the same logic that Christians claim that atheists can\u2019t prove there is no god, atheists are claiming that Christians can\u2019t prove that there is no Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>In order to claim that there is no Santa Claus, Christians would have to claim to know everything in the universe and know that Santa Claus is not among those things. This is of course absurd and that is the sole point in comparing God and Santa Claus. 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