This is something that I've been thinking about for a long time ever since I found out Santa wasn't real.
Let me tell you how it happened for me.
When I was in my second year of junior high, I decided that I was getting too old to write letters to Santa and ask for things. So, I told my mother, well, actually I wrote a letter to Santa telling him I was getting too old for him and then my mother came over and told me that Santa isn't real.
In my third year of junior high, my tutor, about 8, 9 years older than me, that came to my house told me she believed in Santa Claus. She said, "Definitely. He's definitely out there somewhere and I will not stop believing."
So the reasoning I came to of who on earth the jolly old man was, is that he does come around at night on his sleigh visiting households with children. He doesn't leave presents. That's what the parents do. But what he does do is make sure every child is happy and safe and sound and is sleeping tight. The reason I say this is because "Santa" apparently means "Saint". It would make sense for a Saint Claus who loves children and who is kind of a guardian angel for them to visit them on that one special night.
I think if we think of him as a saint, in Christian beliefs and other religions, it would make sense his visits might coincide with Jesus Christ's birthday. I heard there is even specualtion on there being a fourth king that followed the star of Bethlehem but stopped to help a homeless person or something like that... And then I don't know if he died or what but somehow he was dubbed a Saint by the angels of god... He could be the Saint Claus... He could. I mean it does fit.
Okay, first we'll tackle the question, WHO IS SANTA CLAUS?
