I atone for nothing!

[edhopper]

God, on the other hand, should answer for a lot.

On the brighter side, being an atheist now, I don't have to starve myself for a day to appease an absent diety.

[getagrip_already]

1. And as a non-practicing pastaferian, neither do I!

Food guilt is just not of the program.

[edhopper]

2. Food is life

and pasta is divine.

I am actually having spaghetti and homemade meatballs tonight.

[getagrip_already]

4. Ahh, a fellow member of the Rojo sect no doubt!

Those oilers don't know what they are missing!

Red rules! White drools!

[edhopper]

5. Save the oil

for the bread!

[Haggard Celine]

3. I didn't realize it was Yom Kippur until I read your post.

My first thought was Ash Wednesday, but it's way too early. Then I remembered we're in September, and that jogged my memory. Have you not done anything you're sorry for, Ed? If you have, who would you apologize to?

[edhopper]

6. Good question

I am mostly sorry for not treating myself right. But if I wronged someone, I would apologize to them, not God.
I think COVID has minimized the amount of interactions one can be sorry for.

But at times I feel like the counter Edith Piaf, "I regret everything!"

[NoRethugFriends]

8. Actually it is those you wronged you are supposed to ask forgiveness from

Cultural Jewish, atheist Pastafarian here.

[edhopper]

11. I do

but the things I feel sorry for are very different from the things the Hebrew God wants me to atone for.

[NoRethugFriends]

14. What would those things be?

[edhopper]

15. I'd rather not

get too personal. Hope you don't mind.

[NoRethugFriends]

16. Sure

[Haggard Celine]

9. Yeah, I regret a lot, too.

I'm not sure I'm actually a theist. I 'm kind of a pantheist, God is in all or God is all. I think the notion of a God sitting on a throne in Heaven is rather childish. But there is so much shit I wish I could do over and I wish I could just pray about it and feel all better about it, but that wouldn't work. I'm over the hill now, but I hope that in the time I have left I find a way to make up for my stupidity and bullshit. Is that atonement?

[edhopper]

10. Sounds like it

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There is feeling bad about and regret, and the overwhelming guilt religion wants you to feel.

[Haggard Celine]

13. Well hallelujah, I'm saved!

Send me a check and I'll save you too, Ed!

[edhopper]

27. No there isn't

would be nice, but better to put behind myth and magic.

[msongs]

7. I quit eating pasta here. do I have to quit the pastafarians or be excommunicated nt

[edhopper]

12. Gluten?

[DavidDvorkin]

17. When I was a kid and still going to Yom Kippur services

(not much choice, since my father was a rabbi), I always resented the recitation of sins I was supposed to be asking forgiveness for. Some of them, I didn't consider sins. Some of the others, I hoped I'd some day get the chance to commit.

[edhopper]

18. I had the same reaction

you are twelve years old and you are asking forgiveness for things you dream of doing.

I also felt God was a little thin skinned to take offense at some much.

[guillaumeb]

20. I do not like atonal music.

So, we tangentially share a position.

[edhopper]

21. LOL

but what's a toe nail got to do with it?

[guillaumeb]

22. I am flagging you for making an outrageous pun.

lol

[edhopper]

23. I'll take my jokes

to the jury!

[guillaumeb]

24. I hope you are doing well.

I am volunteering for political campaigns. Great exercise, but I did encounter a Q-nut a few weeks ago.

[edhopper]

25. Thanks

Doing well, hoping for this Covid stuff to end.