Yes it's very normal to feel bad. Religion often works on guilt, an ultimate cowardice on your part, but it is an illusion. Stick with your unbelief, and eventually you will stop getting those pangs. About October 2014 I lost my faith down the bathtub drain. Literally I had been doubting for a while after much Bible reading and theological thought and discussion, with a friend who is now aiming to become a priest for the Orthodox church! Funny how things turn out. I finally had my epiphany in the bath one evening.
I had, for a long time, been pulled by animistic beliefs and my experiences had not matched the Unholy Bible. There was no god answering prayers, and life carried on much as it had after I stopped. Life disciplines and teaches us, not god. And there is no use petitioning it.
Now I am slowly starting an ancestor veneration path. No worship, no gods, no requirement of me.
IIN that I feel bad for being atheist?
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A lot of shit being said here.
Yes it's very normal to feel bad. Religion often works on guilt, an ultimate cowardice on your part, but it is an illusion. Stick with your unbelief, and eventually you will stop getting those pangs. About October 2014 I lost my faith down the bathtub drain. Literally I had been doubting for a while after much Bible reading and theological thought and discussion, with a friend who is now aiming to become a priest for the Orthodox church! Funny how things turn out. I finally had my epiphany in the bath one evening.
I had, for a long time, been pulled by animistic beliefs and my experiences had not matched the Unholy Bible. There was no god answering prayers, and life carried on much as it had after I stopped. Life disciplines and teaches us, not god. And there is no use petitioning it.
Now I am slowly starting an ancestor veneration path. No worship, no gods, no requirement of me.