HP religion debates

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 8397

When my mother told me that she had been devastated when a 
neighborhood kid told me that Santa Claus wasn't real (age 9), I told
her not to be upset.

I still believe in Santa Claus, I said....

I now know that my brother and father ate the ham and cheese 
sandwiches that we left for Santa on Christmas Eve, and that
I buy and wrap the presents for my kids.

So?

If Santa and his reindeer arrived on my back lawn or even on the
roof, I would be stunned, but not shocked.....or if Father Christmas 
rode down the lane with his sleigh (as in the Lion, the Witch, and 
the Wardrobe), I would be delighted but not shocked.

Are archetypes such as Santa Claus or Harry Potter or the Tin Man or 
Robin Hood or Zorro any less real than MTV? 

HP is very powerful and on his way to being the archetype of a 
generation..magical...fighting evil, etc.

Who has read The Number of the Beast? They get to go and participate 
in any number of "mythical" universes, where energy and emotion has 
created reality that matched what was once fiction.

Certainly, archetypes have great power to inspire people (look at the 
Enterprise) and therefore to change the future....

Commercials are real? but Father Christmas isn't? Phooey.....

Susan