Crap. Level headed? That sucks. The LoT might get back to being what it was supposed to be then. I don't know if I can take that.

Don't forget Santa!

No, I"m going to have to stick with "Convincing your kids of the existence of Santa is morally abhorrent and a minor form of child abuse."

That's just too fun of a position to give up.

When my son Jake discovered there was no Santa, he cried that a nice man such as St. Nick was actually dead.

I can't actually remember believing in Santa so I don't recall how I felt (I do know that when I was 7 I helped my mom fill the stockings for my sisters so I was onto it by then).

Am I bad to hope that my youngest figures it out so I don't have to pretend anymore?

No! You were bad for lying to him in the first place, you mild child abuser (told you this position is fun to have).

Tell him the truth now! Then you can team up and lie to other children!

I recall an Easter sermon by the liberal minded bishop who ran Grace Cathedral where he said something along the line that you don't have to believe that the resurrection actually happened to be a practicing Christian. I think that's ridiculous.

I also think that while the phenomenon of cultural Judaism is real, it's also a little lazy. Our kids are raised in my wife's church because I didn't want to be one of those atheistic Jewish men that I read about in Alan Dershowitz's "The Vanishing American Jew" who marry Christian women but insist that the children be raised Jewish, not because they believe in God or love Judaism but because they hate Christianity. I've tried to revive a personal practice of Judaism and, at the end of the day, I truly can't be bothered. Maybe it's my loss, but there it is.

So, GD, and, perhaps, CP, I must ask, and by asking, I don't mean to badger, but . . . if you don't believe as a matter of historical fact that the Old Testament God told someone referred to as Abraham, "Do this!", then why are you circumcising your son?

Cause everyone else does it?

and by the way - if they give you the option to watch, I highly recommend against doing so.

I believe I've said this before. The state of my child's penis is not a topic in which I intend to engage in this forum.