When someone sneezes, I find it odd to really say anything. After all. when they fart, cough,vomit,burp, or make any other bodily noises, we typically say nothing. Seems it it up to the person to say "excuse me". What sense does that make?
That's an interesting question/thought - made me want to Google it - this is one of the thoughts on the origin - One of the symptoms of the plague was coughing and sneezing, and it is believed that Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great) suggested saying “God bless you” after a person sneezed in hopes that this prayer would protect them from an otherwise certain death. I use Gesundheit which literally means "wishing you good health"
Maybe this will help explain the relationship of the calendar we utilize today and the event in history we have been counting the days after. “Jesus Christ is the most well-known and written about Person in the history of humanity. He is the turning point in history; either before Jesus Christ was born (BC) or after His birth (AD).... Today, we still use years on our calendars based upon or counted from that mark of time in which the greatest event in human history came; that God became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14)”
It became the standard way of numbering the years in the Roman Empire after it had been Christianized for a few centuries, not right away, not until they had a large enough flock of sheeple to carry it out, so like everything else, christians took it upon themselves to tell everyone else what they should and shouldn't do. There are other calendars The use of a common calendar in the Western culture is more a matter of convenience than faith anymore, there are multiple other calendar systems throughout the world outside of the western culture(actually 40), it has been an issue with much study and debate and generally all sides feel it would be more confusion to change or disrupt the use of the current calendar regardless if it is based on fact or fiction at this point. Who knows maybe someday when aliens land a new calendar will be started and it will be BA and AA Before Aliens and After Aliens or BZ & AZ Before Zombies and After Zombies, it just needs enough people to believe the story to to pinpoint a place on the timeline.
How 'bout the song "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus" Isnt that sending kids the wrong message What else did Mommy do to Santa Claus They should just ban holidays since nobody can seem to act right, OR better yet, NO TALKING, LOLOLOLOL
I read an article at some point that the original songwriter who was interviewed years after the song was written in 1952 still had regrets writing those lyrics. He had tons of complaints all his life about the lyrics in the song. So, people complaining about stuff like that is obviously nothing new.
Why are you assuming Santa is heterosexual? Maybe he's gender neutral? That's very insensitive of you Jerry. There should be a statement before the song that mommy consensually agreed to kiss Santa
............another of example of beauty is in the butt of the beholder. My reply is, "Your voice has really changed, but your breath still smells the same".
I always interpreted the song as the daddy was dressed as Santa Claus. The child did not recognize dad in costume.
