#4 - Good behaviour and bad
You don't have to teach a child bad behaviour. They pick it up on their own. Parents struggle to get their children to be kind and generous people, to care more for others than themselves.
Santa lets us down here: he encourages children to boast about their good deeds, focusing on them and hoping everyone forgets about the bad things they've done. Jesus requires us to acknowledge that we are, by nature, evil, and then to confess and repent of what we've done. Jesus wipes the slate clean with an act of forgiveness and a change of behaviour, but Santa teaches children to just forget the past, no action necessary.
Matthew 4:17 and 1 John 1:9
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