Like a piñata, the ideas of Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny all exist to be eventually broken. And in a sense, whatever initial beliefs we are conscripted into function like that too. And while I don’t think the foundation of these beliefs are necessarily meant to be broken beyond repair like our belief, say, in the Easter Bunny, I do think we’re meant to break with the simplistic terms in which we understand these massively complicated ideas.
