Posted on 03/16/2017 2:35:20 PM PDT by Zakeet
I sneezed in the grocery store last week and everyone on that aisle said it. I thanked them.
Yes, Ariel, bless her heart... ;)
Ms Scotti, I’ll say GOD BLESS YOU if I feel like it you stupid liberal. Matter of fact, if an atheist sneeze, I’ll say it and Mrs Deplorable will say it then our kids will say it.. It’ll drive you more crazy, because liberalism is a mental disorder...
To the writer of this article I hearby change it to “Bless your heart”.
Ariel Scotti and the NYT can piss off.
My favorite “God Bless You” story comes from the University of Maryland graduation a few years ago. The administration demanded that there be NO references to God by any speakers - None!
But the students (God, I love them!) had a plan. The last speaker “sneezed”, and the entire student body said, “God bless you!”
I just love these kids.
God Bless You for giving your knowledge of the subject.
Leftists get so bent out of shape over the dumbest things.
Well, that’s always the dilemma isn’t it. The first sneeze qualifies for a “bless you” but what about subsequent sneezes? You have to draw the line somewhere. After some number of sneezes the sneezer is on their own. But figuring that number is a tricky social calculation. It has to be done on the spot and basically by the seat of the pants since there really isn’t much guidance on the subject out there.
Well, Ariel, better change your name. It means “Lion of God” in Hebrew. Oopsie!
“If you want to make a person feel better after they sneeze, you shouldn’t say ‘God bless you.’ You should say ‘You’re so good looking!’”
Jerry Seinfeld
We were not allowed to say, “God bless you”, when people sneezed because of it’s origin. Plus the “taking God’s name in vain” thing.
When English speakers hear achoo, they usually respond with either gesundheit or God bless you. Gesundheit was borrowed from German, where it literally means "health"; it was formed by a combination of gesund ("healthy") and -heit ("-hood"). Wishing a person good health when they sneezed was traditionally believed to forestall the illness that a sneeze often portends. God bless you had a similar purpose, albeit with more divine weight to the well-wishing. It was once believed that the soul could exit the body during a sneeze, causing ill health, so folks said "God bless you" to ward off this danger. Gesundheit, at one time, also served as a toast when drinking (much like its English counterpart, "to your health"), but this usage is now mostly obsolete.
The author knows that regular citizens cannot be cowed and silenced unless they opt to censor themselves and is asking for just that.
Bkmk
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