Goodbye, Blue Sky

How does one describe what it is to wake up one day and find God gone? Only one friend knows I am currently an atheist, and as a lifelong atheist who has never had any experience more divine than a general wonderment at the universe, he inquired what that was like from my perspective. I said the first thing that came to mind, "It was like waking up one day and not being able to see blue any more."

Religion Without God?

Why not, that's what Marxism is....

But it's a serious question. If God is at the centre of traditional religion, how can anyone function there without it? Aren't you living a lie by saying you are still a part of the religious world?

To deal with the last question first, I have only been coming to terms with this new small-a atheism for a few weeks now and am not aware of any religious rule that says you must immediately be public with every religious, or irreligious, experience you are undergoing. If it seems pertinent to the conversation, I will share my experience. Secondly, this may turn out to be simply a "glitch". By this time tomorrow it could be gone as easily and silently as it came. Am I obligated to throw out the baby at the first sign of the bathwater getting cold? Thirdly, I don't know that this IS an irreligious experience. Moments of doubt and absence, and even depression and anxiety, are a part of the religious experience itself.