I was more or less born that way. However, it has been improved on at several stages of my life, it is kind of an endless journey in a way.
It all started when I was 6, when I was put in to religion lessons in school. I had a year of pre school from age 5 to 6, and at 6 I went to regular school, and that is where religion first showed up.
I was always a little manipulative shit of a kid, that knew how to lie and how to get other kids to do what I wanted. The saying, ’‘it takes one to know one’’, as a natual bullshitter and manipulator I instantly spotted the get out clauses and other questionable claims built in to the religion.
Later in life, at the age of 9, I went to the UK for the first time in my life, to see my grandmother. I got to see photos of my father when he was my age, and got to hear about my father in the context of being a son.
At some point in the stay with my grandmother, I realized, my father was just making it all up as he went along. Adults don’t know best, adults are just kids, on their first try at this world and life. This is when I came to question more or less all authority.
Since then, it has been a progression, of mainly observation ages 15 to 17, 20 to 22, and with a big explosion age 24 to now 30, with formal study of logic and debate and all that good stuff.