Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Or else.
An orchestral director lost his job at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome after telling an audience filled with children that the man in the red suit who delivers gifts to good girls and boys does not, in fact, exist.
The news agency ANSA said Saturday that Giacomo Loprieno lashed out at the young audience for failing to applaud following a performance of “Frozen” on Thursday.
The theater underlined the severity of the offense with a Facebook posting of the production’s new orchestral director alongside Santa Claus.
On social media, the firing has been both applauded for protecting children’s fantasies, and derided for punishing someone telling the truth.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
What the hell does he think he is? Those are not his kids. He should keep his libtard opinion so himself!
greetings, demented one. If you think that Satan Claws [Santa Claus] is real then you must be a Democrat Communist! You must thrive on lies and untruths (like Hillary).
Not his place to do that. Not his kids, not his job. His job is to expose people to beautiful music and ALLOW them to appreciate it, not force them. It’s not a one concert process, and takes years of exposure for young people to realize they actually enjoy that style of music, sometimes even more than popular music. I have 2 kids who took music lessons for many years, and now have varied and eclectic music tastes, with a strong love of classical music, but that didn’t happen overnight or with only one concert. Patience and humility are the result of maturing, so maybe this experience will help him in that process.
We should let children be children when they are little. There is nothing wrong with believing in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, imaginary friends or anything else at that age. How can we teach them to believe God when He is never seen except in our minds and hearts, if we curtail their imaginations? Today’s PC delays maturity and realism,as seen in today’s youth, making them some of the most gullible young people. If they were trained to think rather than feel I, for one would feel much better about the future of our country. GBA
I am Santa and my wife is Mrs. Claus for a Parish in Louisiana and I can tell you that we do visit children and bring the gifts. The gifts come from my wife and I to children that otherwise would not even have a lump of coal to put under a tree branch used as a tree. We are not sponsored by anyone or any group, we only tell them what Christmas is all about and in our own way give them at least one gift that they are wishing for. Even the parents don’t know how we manage that feat. If Santa isn’t real for these kids then we are wasting our time and money and we don’t feel we are. We haven’t seen any of the children we have seen get into any trouble in school or with the law because to them Santa is very real and to the parents as well.
“yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus…”
Mike, keep up your good work!
For as long as the good Lord allows me to be here.
I worked with a gentleman who told me about “Sant” dancing down the aisles of his church, thrilling all the young (and probably some “old folk”). I asked him if he encouraged his 12-year-old son to believe in Santa Claus. When he answered in the affirmative, I asked him about the Easter bunny, etc., and posed this situation to him for his perusal. When the young discover that their parents and other older folk encourage them to believe in a fairy tales and find them to be lies, will the youngsters reject the truth of the Saviour and are told about Jesus Christ and the gift he gave to us, or would the youngsters comment that it is another fairy tale being told them?