On 3/6/2013 12:55 PM, George M. Middius wrote:
> 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.
>

Wow. You get all that from someone saying "Have a blessed day"?

Really?

No room for the possibility that someone might just be offering a
stranger some good wishes without any ulterior motives?

BTW - the person I know who uses some form of the word the word
"blessing" the most isn't even Christian... never mind a Baptist.

George L