On 3/6/2013 2:12 PM, George Leppla wrote:
> 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

LOL I couldn't tell you where there's a Baptist church in my area.
Mostly Catholic, Episcopal or Methodist. And yes, people tell me to
have a "blessed day". Wiccans also use the expression, or "blessed be".
I don't conjur up an image of any particular religion when I hear it.

Jill