Agreed. Although the pedant in my wants to point out that since Santa is a fictional character, an impersonator is at least as much Santa as anyone can be.
Yes, a little. I skimmed the thread and missed that.
If I had to guess, they probably just thought it was gratuitously Grinchy. Less that it’s part of their worldview than that they saw it as a harmless bit of suspension of their skepticism (which I agree with), and whatever insult they called you (a response I don’t agree with) was a reaction to being called to account over something that’s ultimately unimportant, not necessarily for impugning their worldview.
This is where I think your making an unfair assumption, that because they weren’t vigilant about this feel-good fluff piece, that it’s a slippery slope to an uncritical worldview. I think you’re probably underestimating your fellow BB readers. YMMV.
