Religious beliefs are devoid of factual content. These are feel-good expressions that children enjoy in the form of fairy tales, including the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus. A good question to ask is: why do children believe these things? How did this happen? Are parents likely to blindly lie to their child? Do these beliefs, besides declarations of well-being, have any substance? Or is this anticipation and excitement for this child worth it? These questions are interesting to examine and observe from different angles. After viewing The Polar Express, the message was left that if you truly believe in it, you will get the full spirit of Christmas. Only the true believer has the ability to hear a bell ring. Children who doubted the existence of Santa Claus have the ability to see for themselves through an adventure on the train. A key moment is when the conductor mentions that "sometimes seeing is believing, sometimes the most real things in the world are the ones we can't see." For an innocent child this may be easy, or even for a true believer, but for the average person, evidence and reasoning can affect their views on what to believe or not. Strong and convincing reasons must be given for a belief to be founded. have credentials. For a child, having his parents read to him about Santa Claus and how "he knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for God's sake" may be just enough to convince a child to believe in Santa Claus. and being good all year round will be rewarded with gifts from “Santa Claus”, but why do we stop believing in Santa Claus? Or even the tooth fairy? Does belief no longer have anything to do with age, or do parents who talk to their children about Santa Claus, somewhere deep within themselves, believe... in middle of paper......as this explains it is not necessary that every individual has good reasons for what they believe. There are two types of reasoning when it comes to considering truths about God: human reason and natural reason. This philosopher leaves it up to the individual to decide what to believe. Overall, I believe that religious beliefs should not require reasoning and should be up to the individual. An objection a serious person might raise is that my statement is vague and where do these beliefs come from? My answer would be that the strongest religious beliefs and knowledge come from people who don't understand. These beliefs come from mystical experiences which are still valid even if they are ineffable as the philosopher Rad calls them. Ineffable means something that is completely or almost beyond our ability to describe or interpret it..