MY FREE  EXPRESSION. KIDS, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS! WOKES SAY THAT BELIEVING IN SANTA IS TRAUMATIC, IS IT TRUE?

Written by Fernando Milanés

27 de diciembre de 2022

Kids, I am an 86 year old father and grandfather who believed in Santa Claus. In my work as a Medical Dr., I helped adults that suffered from trauma.    Neither I nor any of my colleagues ever treated, saw, wrote, or read about trauma caused by believing in Santa Claus.    

What these “woke” people are saying, is a bold-faced lie! Let me tell you a true story.

When an eight-year-old named Virginia O’Hanlon asked her father if there was a Santa Claus, because her friends said no!    

He told her to ask The New York SUN, a newspaper that told the truth. She then sent a letter to the New York Sun asking, “Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus,” the newspaper’s editor handed it to Francis Pharcellus Church, a sardonic Columbia College graduate and veteran Sun writer for reply.

Here is his answer;

TO;

VIRGINIA O’HANLON.

115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.

YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, and no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and useable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in this entire world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Francis Pharcellus

New York Sun

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