The concept of a missing God is not part of Humilism. Humilism says 'God is Mystery', and nothing more than that. The concept is thought to be part of Humilism because the Creed talked about such in the Admonitions; however, what the Creed says there is not to the effect that God is missing in the world, but in the mood of a non-morally-motivated person. For example, it talked about the problem that much of what humans can decide as good and right are from humans rather than from a God, and humans who strive to live by such rules may feel that lack of divine origination to the moral rules. To put it simply, this is the problem where you are convinced that a thing is the right thing to do, or a thing is wrong to do, but know that it is not the law of any God, there is no God supporting you in that. This creates frustration in some as they strive to abide by those rights/wrongs and are met by natural/human obstacles, they feel like 'what'st the point'. They get the more frustrated when they see religious people doing what - to the person - is wrong but which is right in the eyes of such (religious) people who also feel God commanded them/back them in that.

One example given in the Creed of such situation where one feels the absence of God in one's morals is in veganism. Vegans see it as very wrong to do harm to animals, especially to enslave them to our cooking pots. Whereas many believers of certain Faiths think it is god-given right to do to these animals as it pleases one, and to eat them. Some vegans who are not believers can get frustrated by the fact that their moral lacks the backing of some God, and they just wish there were some God who exists who thinks that way and declare veganism right. Controlled birthing is also one area people may feel God is Missing. A person who controls their birthing for the welfare of the child and other reasons (recognition that they cannot provide for the child) may come to feel there ought to be a more correct God who will mandate that and silence the God of those who think birth control is wrong and that humans should keep birthing without fear of what may become of the children.

One can see that 'God is Missing' is a sad feeling that the right God - the God who supports one's moral stance - does not exist, so that God is missing from behind's one's most preferred moral codes. This is especially when that creates the feeling that ethical living based on such moral codes may go to waste if the really wrong God of other people truly exists and is 'the God of everybody'.

This is featured in the Creed of Humilism probably because it provides moral codes without claiming they are from any God or that they will please any God, and the recognition of the strength that moral codes have if they are attached to Gods and eternal rewards rather than to any other thing. It is common argument by theists that atheists have no source of objective morality. This is more correctly 'those who do not get their morals from God have no strong roots for their morals'. Even in this form, it is not entirely true. But it does happen: those, such as Humilists, whose morals are not taken directly from any God are prone to lacking motivation to live by such moral codes sometimes. In such moments, you may feel that 'God/authority is missing' in your morals. The Creed also states that this feeling is one of the reasons people abandon reasoning for blind Faith, to feel 'secured' in the hands of 'authority', to feel there is higher support/backing by divine authority for how one lives.

It is important to note that the Creed went ahead to prescribe courage, and to correct the wrong idea that such God - who supports what is humanly good - is missing. It also calls on the humble person to meditate on the matter, to go to the basics and foundations, to seek to understand the essence of the rules and the purpose - what it does to their spiritual journey. It advises people in general, both Humilies and nonHumilies, to resist the temptation to jump into a Faith because one feels one lacks divine backing to one's morals or that such morals are watery.

Humilism does not claim God is missing, it only claims God is a Mystery. It recognizes the possibility of Humilies feeling discouraged to obey a certain Humilist law because there is not such claim that such law is from a God. The solution is to understand Humilism better, to cultivate courage (which is an important virtue in Humilism), and to realize that the Humilist's God (a God whose morals are reflected in the morals of Humilism) is not missing, They are only a Mystery. Courage.

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