2006-12-08 01:27:08 · 34 answers · asked by Savvi 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A tes souhaites.
2006-12-08 01:38:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always say "God bless you" whenever anyone sneezes.
After all, I don't believe in Santa Claus -- but if someone told me that they did believe in Santa, I wouldn't be offended by it at all.
I wouldn't take it to mean that the person was trying to impose his/her belief in Santa on me. I would just let his/her "Santa is real" talk go in one ear and out the other, and just go on my merry way.
It's a simple technique when faced with beliefs that one is convinced are false -- yet many atheists don't seem to have warmed up to that concept.
That's why many of them scream bloody murder whenever someone mentions God in their presence -- as if the US Constitution actually protects people from having to hear other people say "God."
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2006-12-08 01:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm an athiest, and I usually say "Gesundheit".
Another question, though is: Why do we say anything? It seems like when people make a noise, we feel that the silence afterwards has to be filled in somehow. Just letting a noise go unacknowledged seems weird to us.
2006-12-08 01:28:47 · answer #3 · answered by nondescript 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I say "God bless you". I don't know the religious beliefs of the sneezer, but I believe in God and I am asking for God to bless this person who may be coming down with a cold or has allergies. I've never had anyone get upset with me, but if they did, I could handle it.
2006-12-08 01:43:36 · answer #4 · answered by Suzie Q 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dog Bless You
2006-12-08 01:30:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well I automatically say God bless you. I dont know who is and who isnt an athiest.
2006-12-08 01:31:25 · answer #6 · answered by yournotalone 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My apologies up front to Germans everywhere for my atrocious spelling of this...
gazhuntite.
Though my spelling is horribly wrong, the word means basically, "good health," and does not have the religious connotation of 'bless you'.
2006-12-08 01:30:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God bless you
even in atheist USSR the language was brimming with phrases about God... it was common to say 'slava bogy' (praise God) when things happened that went well
2006-12-08 01:29:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Kazoontite(sp)?
2006-12-08 01:28:31 · answer #9 · answered by citygirl22_1 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God Bless you, What they believe is up to them. What you believe is to share a blessing. SWhat can they do, retaliate, that is fine. Jesus was crucified, I can take their minor retailiation in comparison.
2006-12-08 01:33:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋