You know there is an old Arab saying : your enemy is not your teacher”. We as Agnostics and Atheists can behave like the religious right or Zealots or every day garden variety Christians . We don’t have be rude , unkind , disrespectful, dogmatic, brain frozen... but rather move on and don’t sweat the small stuff

Many people in the area I currently live say, 'bless' about people. I see that as condescending, but none of those terms really bother me. I take them in the vein that they're meant, usually kindly.

A lot of those bless you type phrases have been around way longer than christianity, so no, I'm not offended. If someone wishes me well, no matter how it's said, I'm generally ok with it.

I think that people forget that language constantly evolves to have different meanings which are different from those of us all over the world .I imagine that Linguists have a hard time tracking where we are at - For me its like how cockney rhyming slang evolved for street traders to evade the Police. They made their own sometimes daily evolving language so if someone is not a cockney barrow boy it is very hard to make out what is being said. If a non cockney worked out a word or two it wouldn't make sense. I imagine everyone knows "lets have a butcher's' Butchers hook ='look'- lets have a look ! So you need the second part of the rhyme to get it - so - you don't get it . Old street slang plus new permeates our language as well as new words for new things that come into being like robots. its a good thing I htink that language is evolving because that means to me that we are too.

I just roll with it.

"Bless his/her heart" is a Southern way of softening the blow. While gossiping, it's an attempt to make them seem charitable. After harshly criticizing an absent person, Southerners qualify it:

"Sam is a lying snake who can't keep it in his pants, bless his heart."

The only time I take offense of a blessing or a curse, is if they are meant to be offensive to me personally.

I don't take offense at these turns of phrase, but I admit I have made a bit of an effort to change my own speech habits to remove these types of things.

You know (I know you are all going to complain) misspelling is a serious trigger for me and because the majority of the members here are from North America, I am constantly triggered. It's 'offence'!

Doesn't bug me. What bakes my biscuit a bit, here in Prosper, TX the cars that city employees drive have, in god we trust on them. That bugs me, but I don't have the resources or the time to fight something like that, even though it's been proven to be illegal . When someone says something like I'll pray for you. I'll say something to the effect of I'll think for you. I do it with a smile on my face.

My go to curse is jesus fuck. I feel like it would be more offensive to believers than atheists. But I don’t use it with any intention to offend anybody. It just rolls naturally off my tongue. I have been considering retraining myself to say fermi fuck instead.

I don't get offended by any of those.

What would offend me would be if someone who knew I'm an atheist said "I'll pray for you." That would piss me off, especially if they said if because I'm an atheist.

The other thing that irks me is when people have religious quotes associated with their work email signature. I don't think it's the right place for that (unless, of course your work is religious based.)

I’ll be kind and say thank you, I won’t be a d**k

it would be hard to have a conversation with anyone around here without running into that. so no I don't find it offensive. I do find some things awkward tho. The old "praying for you" or "they're in a better place now" and all that kind of stuff is weird. I do understand though that this world is not all about me.

I don't get offended when others use religious expressions towards me but I sure try really hard not to use then myself. It's a subtle way to show resistance. I even avoid OMG and other non religious but misleading words like saying my hypothesis rather than my theory.
In French, we say à tes souhaits to mean bless you for a sneeze. It is secular and is translated word to word as To your wishes
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Better things in life to enjoy not going to be bothered or waste my energy on others I am happy

Not offended. They are just phrases. Grew up saying "bless you" after sneezes and still do. I say J F C more than I'd like to admit, but only when I'm super frustrated.

Of course I'm not offended by those phrases. It's foolish to be. If people really believe in god and they mean good things to me, I'm thankful. If they're non believers and use those phrases because they're part of vernacular language, that's good too

No, for me they all have become figures of speech, or just exclamations that carry no weight or meaning. Sort of like if I would say "Blimey" or "Shit"

Personally I think there are far more important things.. I make an effort not to slip into that but it doesn't bother me at all.. It has no meaning for most people..

To be angered by it is like being angered by having to breathe .. It's pointless.

yeah hate it as bad as I'll pray for you,which is doing nothing.

I agree with you. These phrases are so common that they don't automatically imply religious belief. A phrase like, "she is such an angel" doesn't imply that angels exist only that she did something good at that time.

I think the more we use phrases and words that are/were associated with religions and make them commonplace in different context we extend their meanings to the point that their original definitions have little to no impact. For example the word "gay" used to mean lively, merry, and carefree. Now it is more associated with same sex.

I do not take offense depending on the source. If someone who knows about my lack of faith then I take it as an insult

I generally just try to remember that all those "bless your heart"s and so on are just the idioms those people use to express those feelings. Being upset by someone trying to wish me well seems silly. I grew up in the rural south so merely being non-christian (Baptist or methodist specifically) placed me in an EXTREME minority. And expletive versions of these idioms are so ingrained in my vernacular I find myself having to deal with offended believers for all the "goddamned" and "God dammit"s. I just reply that no, neither of those qualify as "taking the Lord's name in vain." The former is simply an adjective, the latter a formal request. Which, again, are nothing more than idioms I picked up from adults during my youth and just happen to enjoy using.

Try not to

Agree, they're just expressions.... Language is a complex subject