RE: The Obsession with Discussing the Supposed Rudeness of Atheists
September 30, 2015 at 3:11 pm
(September 30, 2015 at 3:04 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(September 30, 2015 at 2:39 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: 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.
"Bless you" is short for "(May) God bless you." See:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all
If meant literally, it is a denial of atheism.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
