How sure are you that atheists don't "get" religion?

[Silent3]

34. darkstar3 gave a good example, but this sort of thing comes up all the time...

...so I'm a bit baffled you'd even need to have examples pointed out.

In a less obvious example, consider that Paul Wallace "How to Reconcile Science and Religion" article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-wallace/how-to-reconcile-science-_b_1404660.html

I don't agree that there's any "translation" problem. I think that religion and science don't mesh to well because religion relies on irrational thinking. Not just "different" thinking or "another way" of thinking, not something "beyond logic" or "beyond science", simply contrary to rational thought. Some ideas might be called "non-logical" or "non-rational", ideas which are neither supported by nor in opposition to logic and rationality, but I find that religion goes all the way to being contrary to rational thought.

The fact that I'd even say what I just said makes many people I've said it to say, one way or another, that I just "don't get it".

I have been religious before, however. I have had faith. I've thought I've felt the presence of God. Now that I don't believe, what has happened? Did I somehow forget some "other way of knowing" that I once had?

Or was I simply not "good enough" a believer before I stopped believing to have had that "other way of knowing"?