My Gosh in Heaven: It’s been over a week since my last blogfession.

It suddenly occurred to me: Where do we atheists turn when it’s time to confess?

The Catholics set the bar high, of course, with their confessionals. What a lovely way to remove from your heart the burthen of guilt for your sins. Members of other religions have their spiritual advisors, too, offering people the choice of speaking with priests, reverends, imams, ministers, and rabbis. So where do atheists go when it’s time to fess up?

Blogs!

Put it into the ether, and you’re as good as saved. No need to speak in tongues; just speak in http.

Atheists don’t worry about sin. We have guilt. Then we try to examine it and move on, careful to avoid the same pitfalls and obstacles (or at least to hit them harder so that maybe they’ll fall over this time).