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Originally Posted by Action Jackson
Oh come on. If you(as a teacher) tell a kid about the birth of Christ and they will believe it is true. You are an adult and a teacher and they are young and impressionable so why would they doubt it?
You go to a church and a grown up man in full tribal dress stands in front of you telling you the story of Jesus and asking you to sing songs in his honour. Why would any kid think for a moment that what they are being told is untrue?
The fact they get chocolate as well is incidental. The story of Jesus(they are told this is the "true meaning") is already ingrained.
Kids should be given both sides of the story but they aren't. They are given one side and that's all.
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The birth is true and even if people believe he wasn't the Son of God, he was still a great man that changed the world, actually the 'chocolate thing' proves they weren't given either side of the 'story', seeing as none of them knew quite why they were receiving it, obviously you could point to the fact that they were being interviewed on the radio, but then that shouldn't detract from the fact that the reason they were being interviewed was due to polls conducted by one of the Sunday rags