bless you!!

[erin-x]

I was pondering this today while having a sneezing fit..

From my (very) brief ventures into R+S I know that there are quite a few atheists on AB. My question is... If you are a proper atheist, do you say bless you when someone sneezes?



P.S. Don't take this thread too seriously.. It's in Chatterbank for a reason! ;-) x

[craft1948]

I have been known to say (or type) "cheesus Christ" but I'm still a christian.

[TOWIE]

I thought when you sneeze it was suppose to mean the devil is coming out of you and that why others say 'bless you' ....{:o/

[mike11111]

There is nothing wrong in pious folk invoking the name of Our Blessed Lord in times of extremity. Some people, however, manage confuse the Lord Jesus with Kraft cheeses.

[FredPuli43]

I'm an improper atheist, I'd have you know.

And, yes, I do say 'Bless you!", but isn't that for the benefit of the sneezer who is assumed to like that, as well as being probably a believer? In reality, it's just a custom. It is not thought of as invoking the deity or seeking to act as one entitled to bless.

[mike11111]

"Benedic, Domine, nobis et donis tuis quae ex largitate tua sumus sumpturi; et concede ut, ab iis salubriter enutriti, tibi debitum obsequium praestare valeamus, per Jesum Christum dominum nostrum; mensae caelestis nos participes facias, Rex aeternae gloriae."

[karenmac60]

I have a friend who has a Mexican wife and apparently if they sneeze an one says bless you,it's customary to say 'god bless me until the good people come' or something like that.

[karenmac60]

and no one *