Father Christmas and Copernicus

Father Christmas When every child is small he or she believes in Santa Claus and he is the person who is supposed to be giving gifts to small children. So when i was small even i believed in Santa Claus and asked him for whatever gift i wanted and i always got that gift surprisingly but as i grew older i realized something that it was my mother who always asked me what i had expected from Father Christmas. So it later became quite obvious that it was my mother who had kept the gift in my room and not Father Christmas.When i was small anyone who said that Father Christmas did not exist i thought of that person to be the biggest liar and the day i came to know that Father Christmas did not exist i literally started crying. As my Dad’s birthday is on the 25 th of December we usually celebrated Christmas and his birthday on the same time . Several times on my Dad' birthday i would dress up exactly like Santa with the same " Red Clothes and the Red bag which Santa carried ".I used to then go around the house distributing gifts to all the small kids in my building. At this age thinking about those days feels really funny. We being Human beings never question what is told to us and accept whatever is told to us which we should not from now. What i now feel is that no child should be told about the non existence of Father Christmas and that child should someway or the other come to know on his own this will in one way test him. Copernicus There was a man called Copernicus who had denied the fact that the Earth was the centre of the Universe. People in those days thought the Earth was the centre of the Universe no one knows why they thought so it was maybe because the Pope had said so and at that time no one questioned what the pope said .It was also believed that the Sun rose in the East and set in the West and this showed the Earth was the centre. So this shows that the people believe what is told to them and as Copernicus spoke against the popular classes at that time what he said was not true without actually knowing what he said and on what basis. It was like no one had an own thinking but Copernicus did but the entire society did not believe in what he said but he was later proved to be absolutely right by Galileo. So every person should have an own thinking and should say what that person feels without thinking what the others will think about it.The similarity between Copernicus' theory and about the existence of Santa Claus was that at Copernicus' time people believed in what was told to them by the Pope so did i believe when i was told about the existence of Santa also that what conclusion i come to is that in every human being there is a Copernicus just that the feeling of confidence and logical reasoning is required. The subject Theory of Knowledge is teaching us that we should learn to question what is taught to us and we should have a logical reason in whatever we believe. This is the only way in which one can learn what is true. What i feel is that beliefs can be true or false but truth always has to be true as the word suggests.