A question for all you converted athiests!

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I think there can be a weird period where people expect atheism to fill the gap. Like, having a set of replacement answers and rules to follow. It's totally undstandable, it's like getting out of jail, after not realising you were even in there.

I think that's why theists so often call atheism a religion, they think you must have a "prescribed belief set" of some kind. Some set of guidelines that deal with everything. It's just getting your head around the fact that they are not guidelines, they are shackles.