Atheism isn't as big of a deal to me, anymore.
I've made peace, somewhat, with the idea that there is no God. When that happens, atheism isn't so much presence. It feels more like absence.
When I first left Christianity, I was a new atheist who was trying to carve out something to fill the void. But the thing I found is that the world did not wait for me to fill that place that was once filled with Christianity. The world didn't change because I found out God didn't exist; God had never existed in the world. Everything kept moving, as it always had. I just knew that God wasn't real, but that didn't mean things changed.
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