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I am sorry to disappoint as a Catholic or anger anyone, but the way to God is not actually through Jesus. It is actually through this dude:

I am not being irreverant when I say that the way to God is through Santa Claus.

If you believe in Santa Claus, you are looking at the world through the innocent eyes of a child. What’s more important is that Santa is the physical representation of giving. People volunteer more during the Christmas holiday, they donate more money, they tend to be kinder. Why is that? It’s because of that beautiful innocece that Santa Claus rouses about in them that makes people do the right thing.

The way to God is doing the right thing, being a good person, being all the things that any religious leader would want their followers to be..

At the end of our lives, on Judgment Day, what do you think happens to people who don’t believe in Jesus but are humble, good people? What happens if a Christian hasn’t been to church in twenty years, but is a humable and good person?

Would God turn these people away from the Kingdom of Heaven? Would they end up in Hell?

This would put people such as Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, and Susan B. Anthony in Hell. If Hell was filled up with a bunch of good people, something tells me that Hell could no longer exist.

If you still stand your ground that the only way to God is through Jesus, well, I hate to burst your bubble but Jesus plays a role in many religions. They are already getting a taste of Jesus to get to whatever name they use for God.

Jesus is in Islam, Druze, the Baháʼí Faith, Cao Dai, Hinduism, Hare Krishnas. He is in all of these religions in varying amounts but the fact is, he is in those religions.

Traditionally, Buddhists as a group take no particular view on Jesus, and Buddhism and Christianity have but a minor intersection. However, some scholars have noted similarities between the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha and Jesus. Source: Wikipedia

Be good, do good. What better way to celebrate humanity?

Miriam Kavanagh