GOD BLESS YOU

Why do people continue to journey through life and persist with that blasphemous phrase, “God Bless You” ?Let’s talk about this for a moment or three so I can inform all y’all who don’t already know where and how exactly this saying, which is retorted after a fellow peer sneezes, emerged into our everyday lives. Well basically, here’s how it went down. So apparently, way back in day the common belief was that when a person sneezes, their heart stops for a moment. At the time, assuming you acknowledged this pseudoscience as factual, you would say a prayer in regards to the survival of whoever just sneezed/whoever’s heart just stopped!!! This ultimately led to the coined phrase, “God Bless You”. Obviously, as time went on, this idea of your heart stopping when you sneeze was eradicated from contemporary science and societal belief sets. When you think about it, for anyone today to recite that nonsense is pretty damn ignorant. It’s pretty damn clear that your heart doesn’t stop when you sneeze and that your life is in no way in danger during this period. For someone to continue to say “God Bless You” is like they are wearing a big sign that says “HEY! I’M NOT ALWAYS POLITE, BUT WHEN I AM, I SURE AM AN IDIOT” One might argue that it’s simply part of tradition that we continue to use this phrase. I would reply to that argument by saying that the tradition that they are referring to is one with outdated and exiled beliefs that serve no purpose in our society, besides making the masses sound ignorant and delusional. Just as the shape of the earth was updated from flat to spherical, almost every theory that was developed in our past has now been corrected. When will “God Bless You” be eliminated from our vocabularies, probably never… L