With the recent comment from an Italian Catholic priest, that Father Christmas is just like Snow White and Cinderella - they are all fables, said to have ruined millions of children's Christmas. The first thing that came to my mind was: isn't Christmas a fictional celebration of a fable character from a book as well?
Everything that has been said about Catholicism and Christianity has been based on a book and millions of different interpretations of it. Scientifically, there is limited finding of whether Jesus was an actual person or not. As for Father Christmas, like Jesus, it is also a made-up character. However, the real person that it is based on is Saint Nicholas, who was indeed a real person. As for whether those miracles really happened, well, it's up to the people to interpret.
So once the facts of everything has been considered, there is really no need for the children to be upset because what they believe is most likely to be truer than what the religious people believe.
And a Happy Christmas to you too!
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