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Lying to children interferes with their ability to cope with the real world for the rest of their lives, because when their perceptions become distorted it is impossible for them to react properly. The more accurate their view of the world is the better able they are to find the best solutions to their problems. Their point of view controls their perception and their perception controls their behavior, and when these are fouled by internalized lies the individual is fouled for life. So, now that this is understood, society shouldn’t continue to permit and to perpetuate the degrading of its children’s ability to cope with their future problems by telling them intentional lies? Believing the lies makes those children’s lives more difficult and less fulfilling. No descent person would want that for innocent children.

Today the Christian Science Monitor, a normally responsible news outlet, retrashed in newsblat style the evil story, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, first perpetrated in 1897. The original is a pathetic space-filler yarn about an eight-year old’s honest request for a simple truthful answer from responsible adults, “Is Santa Claus real or just a story?”

Kids in Santa Claus suits

Only evil people would lie to innocent children seeking truth.

The horrible adults intentionally lied to Virginia and then schemed together to concoct and publish this disgusting story. It made the whole world laugh at her and at the naivety of uninformed children asking legitimate questions. Those adults should have been condemned by their society, and every news outlet who ever republished it should be condemned too, including The Christian Science Monitor and perhaps especially them. They usually do what appears to be a good job of presenting the news but when they perpetuate this crime against humanity, yes that’s what it is, they should be deprived of the rewards of living in an honest civilization for a while.

Perhaps, that would be an appropriate treatment for corrupting a child’s ability to perceive reality correctly, and therefore condemning that child to a life of distortions, errors and therefore of needless mistakes and consequent suffering. What greater evil can there be than ruining a child’s life? Name one! — You can’t, because even killing a child outright would simply end their existence and they would be simply dead and gone, but to ruin their ability to perceive reality accurately injures their living essence forevermore, as long as they live.

Yesterday’s post concluded with the phrase that is and should be proclaimed more vehemently as the core of Christianity – All things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do to them. We should help other people achieve their potential by doing whatever it takes to help them approach their full potential and approach their personal heaven.

Lying to children is leading them into a life of hell.