1. I believe Santa Claus was a real person, and one who testified to and demonstrated the love of God poured out to us in the person of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. A study of Nicholas of Myra (or Bari), who was a "saint" by reason of his faith in Christ, and was titled "Saint Nicholas" by reason of the traditional Church’s recognition of his love and good works, reveals a true believer and genuine servant to mankind. All myth and legend evolving from this man, which is flavored with good and godly ideas of love, giving, caring, and helping, is well-grounded in fact; facts I believe in.
2. I believe in Santa Claus as a righteous mood, attitude, or disposition. I believe in whatever generosity of spirit he symbolizes to us, and I like the idea that the contemporary role of Santa has traditionally incorporated a call to personal accountability for good or bad deeds done or undone….
3. I believe in Santa Claus because, when rightly adopted into a family’s Christmas traditions, he enhances children’s fun without threatening their faith. Whatever instance to the contrary may be cited, where some adult may have insensitively or stupidly concocted a Santa that deluded or injured a child’s thoughts or emotions, there is an acceptable way to include him in the family and not diminish either ultimate truthfulness or imagination’s fun times. Where adults who know the Savior truly live like it, no child they influence is likely to confuse the Santa we pretend about with the Living Christ we worship, serve, and place our eternal faith in.

"…Yes, I do. I believe in Santa Claus, but I haven’t been trapped into paganism or even slightly lost focus on Jesus—the Babe become King, and the Center of the Season…."