
How funny, the core message of this beloved Christmas movie ironically is also a core theme to Christianity: “Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.” You see that in society all the time; common sense has convinced most of the human population that God could never exist, whereas the other tiny percentage chose to believe faith instead, the same way a child believes a fat man could fly in a single night around the entire planet with flying reindeer. Though whatever you believe, be it Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Evolution, or anything really, it requires your greatest amount of faith to ignore the doubts. It would be difficult to believe that a man could walk on water, the same way it would be difficult to believe natural selection could somehow cause the human race. Faith is an unavoidable matter in an individual putting together their own moral code, which means common sense must also be ignored at times. Miracle on 34th Street fully understands that struggle, especially when major corporations are fueled by their common sense.