“Guy @ CVS just handed me my receipt and said ‘Have a blessed day.’ It took restraint not to smile and tell him, ‘Satan and I curse you.’”
That actually had shocked me some, leading me to reply:
“It troubles me a little why such an innocuous statement would cause such a – and thankfully you kept it internal – reaction.”
And it's true: why would such a reaction be one to that statement? I can understand "blessed" can be - for lack of a better phrase - controversial to some people, but still, it's not an overtly proselytizing word. I think it surprises me even more because I know the guy to have been a worker in a number of luxury-class hotels, and so sensitivity to foreign-to-one's-own viewpoints should be the reaction, I think.
I still haven't received a response, but his internal reaction almost seethes with an underlying contempt of Christianity that I fear that the wrong day at the wrong time would have the next person to say such a thing get an earful of unnecessary and somewhat ireful comments.
Still waiting on an answer.
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