Catholic Priest tells children Santa doesn't exist

[Hugh Conway]

Christmas has been ruined for dozens of children in a northern Italian town where a Roman Catholic priest has told them Father Christmas doesn't exist.

 

Parents in Novara have criticised the parish priest who likened Santa Claus to a fable such as Cinderella or Snow White.

 

But the priest says he was just trying to emphasise the story of Jesus Christ.

 

http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/12/24/Santa_doesnt_exist_priest_tells_children

[tvashtarkatena]

It's hard to imagine the even harder heart that gently placed such an icon of childhood joy in front of its beloved audience, only to crush it with his maroon Italian bootheels. What manner of Gorgon would do this? One would expect such cretinism from a Cuban contractor, or a dirty Mexican Jew, but an ordained representative of the Original Church of Christ, Superstar? My God, they're just children. Snappy, befreckled, ruddy, mussy haired Irish children.

[STP]

So, is it incompatible for the Vatican to support evolutionary theory (more specifically microevolution but not necessarily macroevolution) but not to take seriously the evolutionary implications of human development? Sexual preference might be a natural phenotypic expression of the genotype rather than an aberration. Persistence of a particular trait that does not immediately appear to offer selective advantage might be explained by kin selection.

 

BTW, don't they know that Santa Claus has a phylogenetic history?

 

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[Bug]

Evolution of Santa Clause. Another western mythology.