Do Your Kids Believe In Santa?

So I’m a pastor. I deal in the unseen and the miraculous. I teach my congregation, and my children to trust in a God who they cannot see and cannot prove without a shadow of a doubt scientifically that He exists.
Now obviously there are all sorts of great explanations apologetically I could give for the existance of God, but He is still unseen and I cannot force someone to beleive in Him.
And then there’s Santa Clause- an old fat man who lives at the North Pole, who employs thousands of elves that make toys all year, rides around in sleigh pulled by flying reindeer delivering toys to every child on earth in one single night, and enters houses via a chimney!?
It’s scientifically impossible for Santa to exist yet parents all around the world go to great lengths trying to force their children to believe in him.
My problem is that once the child realizes that Santa is not real, and if their parents teach them to believe in God, why should the child continue believing in God if there parents have lied to them about Santa for all those years?
Now I know that belief in God is much different and deeper than a belief in Santa, but the concepts are the same.
And the age when children realize that there is no Santa, is also when the child goes through formidable changes mentally. Between the ages of 8-11 are when children make decisions and form beliefs that will set the course for their entire life. So why even introduce even the slightest doubt in an unseen God by lying to them about Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick for years then finally breaking it to him that he’s a farse?
Not a smooth move parents…