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Reflecting in hindsight, it could have happened because I saw less evidence for God than for the Santa-equivalent. Intuitively, I could have preferred the simpler explanation "Grandfather Frost exists", even thought it included unknowns such as the question how exactly he could leave presents everywhere at once and leave no trace of breaking in, rather than believing a conspiracy theory.
With God, on the other hand, I had no reason to hold that belief other than the words of the Bible and religious people like my great-grandmother, and I already saw that they were wrong on many other accounts.
I would suspect it might have more to do with living in a country that was an atheist state until 20 years ago.
That may be true, but from my experience, most people's opinions on the existence of God here are "meh, maybe, maybe not" (which by itself is enough to make Russia one of the most non-theistic nations on the planet), while I went strictly from "God exists" to "God does not exist".