The grown-up version of Santa is paralleled in the belief in a magic sky-genie who keeps a private torture chamber. IOW, if it truly takes the threat of an afterlife of eternal torture to make you not be horrible to other people, then you do not get credit for being nice.
The grown-up version of Santa is paralleled in the belief in a magic sky-genie who keeps a private torture chamber. IOW, if it truly takes the threat of an afterlife of eternal torture to make you not be horrible to other people, then you do not get credit for being nice.