Saying god bless you.

I'm an atheist, so I don't say either "God bless you" or "bless you." Even if it is to show manners, I don't understand what "bless you" in the response of a sneeze means without the religious connotation. Someone else says it anyway.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Dullenplain

Perhaps a more neutral reply could be "you are excused" much like when someone belches accidentally.

Yeah, exactly. I just hear so many people using "bless you" every time someone sneezes that it gets annoying after a while. Plus, sometimes the person does say "excuse me" after he/she sneezes, isn't that enough? What do people say when they fart, burp, shit and cough? Actually, no one shits in public, but I mean, with the other three, don't they just say "excuse me" and move on? If "bless you" had some relevant meaning with "excuse you," I could understand. It's almost as bad as slang that doesn't make sense with what you apply it with.

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