George Leppla wrote:

> > One of the cashiers at my TJ's ends every transaction with "Have a blessed
> > day." I hate that.

> I may not have anything in common with the person saying it and I'm
> pretty sure that our religious beliefs aren't the same... but if a
> stranger wants to take the time to throw a blessing my way as an
> expression of good will... or an expression of their faith, I'm OK with
> that.

That's not the message I get. To me, it's a reflexive expression of Baptists'
ingrained religious fascism. They are supremely intolerant of anybody whom
they can't corner and cram full of their proselytizing garbage.