Wow, just saw a FB announcement of the untimely death of someone I didn't know but was clearly known to some of my friends in the US where I grew up. I'm overwhelmed by the Christian slant on all the responses. Parroting things about heaven & blessed this & that, & praying for the family, etc. It freaks this atheist out that I came from there. It's a world view I can't fathom much less relate to. It terrifies me, like all those people aren't fully in the driver's seat of their own bus.

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@lightweight I always want to respond to "Bless you." when I sneeze with, "Please don't insult my intelligence." It's one of the million ways people in the USA like to impose Christianity on you.

@lwriemen yeah. I've said 'Gesundheit' my entire life, never once "bless you"...

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