Myth and magic comes through the costumes, colours, rites and practices that surround it

The illusion takes place in the mind where the tricks confuse it and it accepts what its told as real, after all that's how we train it. The written word, the thing seen, the story told, all work on the brain as though this is reality.

That is why what it sees, hears, and dreams becomes reality and may come about, and what is believed stands.

When the mind is untrained the unreal becomes the real. The myth becomes truth, and the gullible are preyed upon. What is told to children when their minds are vulnerable and too immature to figure out the lies is evil, wrong, and stupid. It's why religous leaders keep their people ignorant and untrained into the things that will give them strength to know the lies.

Look at Christmas! What is it? How does it perpetuate? Where does it comes from? Two hundred years ago it was hardly ever heard of until an author named Grimm invented a character called Scrooge.

My first experience of this lie was disastrous. I could not comprehend how a man in a red suit, of whom I was petrified, would find his way into my bedroom. In case you are wondering the bedroom is a child's sanctuary and the thought that someone can just enter therein is frightening. So is the man in the red suit.

Young children are dragged up to these dressed as Santa Clause, often screaming in fright, to sit on his knee and tell him their most wanted toys, or whatever. Who benefits from the charade.

The Stores profit handsomely from the gullibility of its customers while such scenes demonstrates the readiness of parents to deceive their children. Would it not be nicer to give a gift to a child as a present from mum and dad, whom the child respects and feels secure about.

Isn't the fact that we expect children to go along with the lies more dangerous to them than helpful. What if the man is a paedophile? Can the child tell the difference between a strange man who will hurt them and one who gives them gifts. Parents WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

And so it is with religion!

What goes in before 7 years of age stays for life, a proven scientific fact.

So parents go on fooling their children about Christmas, religion, and everything else

I have heard many say that they cannot do away with Christmas. Why? Can you do away with the alcohol that makes your dreams more exciting? With the unhealthy bodies that come from too much of a good thing? Christmas is another evil that destroys and if you don't believe look at the number of deaths by accident, suicide or other that occurs at this time. Look at the disasters that happen, expecially in the most religious countries. Look at the violence, disease, poverty and hunger that an unbalanced world is going through. Then look at the religious might of those countries.

Religion is not peace but war with God. Make-believe in any form is war with one's inner self. It is destructive, hurtful, and costly.

To many make-believe is their peace, their truth, their existence and their reason for being. Take heaven and hell as examples.

How many parents, governments, and nations follow religious principles based on heaven and hell to rear their children, discipline their people, and punish the sinners according to some outrageous dogma that has no foundation

When logical explanations for nature and after-life expectations fail most will turn to superstitition, magic and myth for answers. That's been the way for thousands of years.

Take this case in point.