RE: The Obsession with Discussing the Supposed Rudeness of Atheists
September 30, 2015 at 3:04 pm
(September 30, 2015 at 2:39 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(September 30, 2015 at 12:19 pm)Exian Wrote: Hell, I'll still say "bless you".
Some of you should learn "gesundheit." It means "health" and it is wishing the person good health. Which is what they need if they are sick.
See:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all
It is religion-neutral, fine for both theists and atheists to say.
Last I checked, there's no approved atheist way to say anything aside from "I don't believe in gods."
I say "bless you" not out of faith, or out of the belief that the person's soul has just been ejected, but because in the culture I was raised, that was the polite thing to do. I see no harm in the phrase, and don't feel like I'm selling my atheism short for saying it.
