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Yes and yes ;p

Dude, I am quite convinced you are pulling our legs, but to take you at face value - Pagan's would not say 'bless you' (although I don't know of any so this is conjecture) as this came about from the days of the bubonic (or 'black' - if I could be so politically incorrect) plague. If a person sneezed, it was thought to be the onset of the plague and people blessed (they were Christians, not Pagans) the individual in a (vain) hope this would prevent that person from catching it.

The answer to your second question is probably related to the incident when Jesus pulled a coin out of his pocket and said 'Oh myself, it was minted 5 years before my self!'

You really got me on this one!

The roots are deeper than you think. First of all, in English and Spanish, after someone sneezes, you use a phrase with religious content. In other languages, like German or Russian, you just say a phrase withing you good health, with no religious meaning whatsoever.

Second, the custom to say something after a person sneezes comes from the early middle ages when people believed that sneezing as a sign for getting sick was the manifestation of the devil coming to take your health away. That is way in the roman languages, as well as in English, one connects the phrase with the religious "bless you".

Last, to answer (it definitely took me some time, erh?) you say "bless you" to a pagan, Muslim, Orthodox, or anyone else, just because its now a custom and courtesy, rather than a religious message.

How or why did announcing "God bless you" substitute into linked as an expression one says to a distinctive after the different sneezes? i've got got here upon some reasons listed below, yet, finally, i do no longer think of any of them are very valid: while somebody sneezes his coronary heart stops and announcing "God bless you" potential "i'm happy your coronary heart began lower back." announcing "God bless you" once you sneeze retains the devil from flying down your throat. while somebody sneezes, say "God bless you and could the devil leave out you." once you sneeze your soul tries to flee and announcing "God bless you" crams it lower back in.

You can still say "god bless you" but if you are a pagan you can say "goddess bless you"

I don't know or care what Jesus said and it's not relevant.

As a Wiccan, I still say God Bless you to anyone who sneezes simply because it's still the polite thing to do. If someone says "God Bless you" to me, I say thank you and NEVER, EVER bring up the fact that I'm not Christian. My opinion is that as long as someone's trying to be courteous, accept their courtesy and respect with the same amount of courtesy and respect they've shown you.

I prefer gesundheit as well (not a pagan, but not a Christian, so I think the question is still relevent). Salud (Spanish) is another nice thing to say without getting any kind of supernatural entities involved.

That's so Pagan of you to ask.

Hey! I remember a dude in a church yard asked that same question along time ago. Is that plagiarism? Or Dude "Are you the Pagan that asked that question before the church children ran you off?"

"Goddess Bless" would be more appropriate, but a general "Bless You" is accepted as well. But most Pagans won't complain about a "God Bless You" once in a while.

I have Wiccan friends and they take the comment as a gesture of Good Will. I would feel the same if they blessed me in their own way.

Actually I do...but without the god part. And sometimes I just say STFU. Depends.

And I always thought people at that level traded off blasphemous remarks so he might say "jumping Mohamed on a pogo stick" or something.