Is it or could it be considered rude to say "Bless You" or "God Bless You" to someone who happens to not be Christian?? Could someone turn around and say it was offensive
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Someone could turn round and say that it is offensive, yes. On the other hand, it could be considered rude not to say it when someone sneezes. It's...a cultural thing really. I tend to say "gesundheit" to people I know really don't dig christianity, but the automatic "bless you" reaction doesn't seem to have garnered much objections in my own experience.
As for Christmas cards, unless I know someone definitely would not want a card, I send them to whoever I happen to think of when I write them. It's more of a good-wishes-in-the-winter kind of thing than anything particularly associated with religion for me, even though I am, I guess, a religious catholic. At school, if I knew which particular winter festival a friend celebrated, I would wish them a happy one of those in my christmas card for them. And for friends that had no particular religion or were anti-religion, I drew amusing cartoons.
Buying specific holiday cards didn't really make economical sense and my friends of other religions would just send christmas cards because it was easier and cheaper.
As for Christmas cards, unless I know someone definitely would not want a card, I send them to whoever I happen to think of when I write them. It's more of a good-wishes-in-the-winter kind of thing than anything particularly associated with religion for me, even though I am, I guess, a religious catholic. At school, if I knew which particular winter festival a friend celebrated, I would wish them a happy one of those in my christmas card for them. And for friends that had no particular religion or were anti-religion, I drew amusing cartoons.
Buying specific holiday cards didn't really make economical sense and my friends of other religions would just send christmas cards because it was easier and cheaper.
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