Nov 29, 2006, 08:21 AM
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Let's put it this way: "goodbye" is actually a shortened form of "God be with you (ye)." So if you can't say "bless you" to a militant atheist, you can't say "bye" either. And that's just one of thousands of religiously-derived words in the English language.
I am a religious person, but I think that these terms have been brought into common usage and that little, if anything, remains of their original, religious meaning. If someone is hypersensitive about it, chances are they're just looking for a fight or a landmark court case that will catapult them into the national spotlight.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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