I mean, it seems like it is to me....?
2007-11-14 04:34:05 · 12 answers · asked by nikkilee911 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
let me explain: I can't bless people. I'M NOT GOD!!! and I think it's awfully silly to demand god to bless someone just because they sneeze. really.
2007-11-14 04:40:23 · update #1
As a hardcore atheist and a chronic sneezer, it drives me batty to have my overly-kind co-worker say "god bless you" to me 15-20 times a day. I don't believe in her god and want no part of her god. However, because she is SUCH a nice person, I just don't have the heart to say what I'm really thinking.
As a side note, I don't understand why to say "god bless you" is okay, but to reverse it and use the word "damn" instead of bless is not okay. To me, they are simply two sides of the same coin. Personally, I don't use either phrase, but I do find the apparent hypocrisy puzzling.
2007-11-14 04:49:17 · answer #1 · answered by oldernwiser 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely not! There are many possible origins of saying "God bless you" after a sneeze. Apparently saying "God bless you" has been going on for centuries, and nearly all the sources are related to actual blessings from God. In most cases the blessings were hope that God would grant good health to the sneezing individual.
2007-11-14 04:38:27 · answer #2 · answered by LonHolder 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There was a belief in the middle ages that when you sneezed, your soul left your body momentarily (probably because some people had an aneurism after a sneeze, and didn't understand the connection). "God bless you" entered the English language as a way to save someone's soul from leaving permanently.
Just about every other language in the world says something like "health."
2007-11-14 04:38:51 · answer #3 · answered by ptstrobl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do say "bless you". The prepare stems from the bubonic plague, at the same time as sneezing changed into between the early signs and indicators and that sneeze might want to be a trademark you may want to quickly die. this can be a cultural fossil, interior of a similar way tens of millions throw money into wishing wells regardless of the very reality it changed into initially finished in providing to the Goddess Minerva over 2000 years in the past.
2016-10-24 05:38:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was also another belief that sneezes caused your heart to skip a beat.
As for me, I just omit the "God" part and simply say "Bless You" because some people aren't religious or have different belief systems.
2007-11-14 04:45:52 · answer #5 · answered by germaine_87313 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not if the "God Bless You" came out of the heart and the sneeze came out of the nose. What comes from the heart is all that counts.
2007-11-14 04:50:22 · answer #6 · answered by BugYA 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How can asking God to bless someone blasphemous? I'm not sure I understand your reasoning here.
2007-11-14 04:40:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course not;-} you're not criticizing G*D, are you?
You obviously don't understand what a blessing is.
The practice originated because people thought that your breathing was your soul, going in & out, keeping you alive.
They figgered a sneeze meant it was trying to escape.
2007-11-14 04:41:06 · answer #8 · answered by Robert S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
when you sneeze your soul can accidentally get blown out your nose.
saying "god bless you" forces your soul to go back up the nose back into the appendix where it lives
2007-11-14 04:49:25 · answer #9 · answered by ahh choo 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think it would be blasphemous only if you were cursing the sneezer with the Lord's name
2007-11-14 04:37:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋