Atheist dilemma

[Prodigy54321]

thank you sir/gent/miss/ma'am

[Speedlimits]

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An atheist sneezes, and someone says "bless you". A God-fearing individual would say thank-you, and move along. BUT, as an atheist, what do you say:
"no thanks, I'm good",
"thank-you" and don't bother to explain your lack of beliefs,
or something totally different?

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say thank you.

[JaredL]

If possible I ignore it. Short of that I go to a nod. Finally thank you. Depends on the situation, often it's just thank you.

[SNOWBALL]

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I stop and lengthily explain that I don't believe in God and that he needs to shed his medieval prejudices. However long it takes--usually 2 or 3 hours. Then I head home and take a long hot shower to get the blessiness off me.


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vn, but what's your line for women that are orgasming? I usually arrest performance until they come to their senses, but sometimes I'll turbo-climax, roll off, then stare into her wide, electric eyes and pointedly ask "where's your god now, huh?"

[Siegmund]

My preferred reply to "bless you" is something like "thanks, I need all the help I can get!," a sentiment most of them would agree with if they knew just what my religious views were... but they assume it's just a joke.

[JPajamas]

Thank-you for all of your responses, especially the light-hearted replies! This was a question I posed at work on day(it was slow, what can I say?), and I figured why not use the collective braintrust of the 2+2 to come up with an answer. Well done!

[CaseS87]

I just go ahead and tell them "Hey [censored] off you God-believing scum." That usually takes care of it.

[thylacine]

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An atheist sneezes, and someone says "bless you". A God-fearing individual would say thank-you, and move along. BUT, as an atheist, what do you say:
"no thanks, I'm good",
"thank-you" and don't bother to explain your lack of beliefs,
or something totally different?

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I blow my nose.

[bocablkr]

Admittedly, it does bother me but I usually won't say anything. However, if someone sneezes I always say "Gesundheit!"

[vhawk01]

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An atheist sneezes, and someone says "bless you". A God-fearing individual would say thank-you, and move along. BUT, as an atheist, what do you say:
"no thanks, I'm good",
"thank-you" and don't bother to explain your lack of beliefs,
or something totally different?

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I've always thought that was backwards. It seems to me the guy doing the sneezing should say, "Bless you and I hope you don't catch what I just sneezed at you".

PairTheBoard

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I'm pretty sure the phrase originally developed because at some point people thought sneezing was a way in which you expelled evil spirits from your body, in which case it makes sense. Religious people are pretty silly huh?

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Thats pretty close, I think its actually that your soul is particularly vulnerable to Satan or evil spirits while you are sneezing, so they say bless you to ward him off at your time of weakness. Not sure if its specifically Satan (I think so) or evil spirits in general.

As to the OP, I usually scream "BAD TOUCH" and either mace them or run the other way screaming. How is this not incredibly standard?