Phrases I am tired of hearing

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“Trust in God.” I’m an atheist now, but that never did me (and many others) a damn bit of good. ”In God We Trust” shouldn’t be on coins, and religion should be kept out of schools, courts, and anything else connected with the government because it feeds into Christian nationalism.

Ending a letter or email with “bless you,” especially when the person knows I’m a nonbeliever. Once, a person ended a work email to me that way. In this case, they didn’t know I was a nonbeliever. It just seemed a bit unprofessional.

“If you don’t follow my brand of religion, you’re going to Hell.” JFC, that’s irritating.

“You’re being misled by Satan.” Gaslighty. While I admire Satan, he can’t mislead me seeing as how he’s imaginary.

When people say: “Life isn’t fair” to try to get you to be content or, at least, go along with some lousy situation. Yeah, no s**t. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t strive to make things more fair.

“Women are the weaker vessel.”

“Wives be in subjection to your husbands.”

“Men are the head of women.”

“Turn the other cheek.”

“Spare the rod, spoil the child.” Batshit crazy.

Saying “bless you” after someone sneezes doesn’t bother me because it’s just something people say to be polite without really thinking about it. I don’t think most are thinking that they want God to bless the person in that moment. Greetings in some other cultures may be similar to that. When people say “bless you” or “God bless you” in scenarios like the one I mentioned, it seems a bit more intentional and religious. It’s not a normal way to end a letter.

This isn’t anything major. It’s just mildly tiresome as is when people say “I’ll pray for you” in the hope that it’ll bring me around to their religion. If I believed in God, I would have such a low opinion of him I’d prefer not to be blessed by him or otherwise associated with him at all.

I’m cool with people blessing themselves or fellow believers, but I’d prefer that people respect my lack of belief, especially if they are aware of it.

I forgot a couple:

"In God We Trust"
"One Nation Under God"

I know where these phrases originate from, but the Christian Nationalists spammed them at my former workplace. Literally, they would write these on the envelopes!

People and courts have argued for decades that the addition to the pledge and the change of the motto is not something to be concerned about, despite how much it violates the constitution. I fear we are seeing how false that notion of it not being anything to be concerned about really is. These phrases stamped all over our money and pledge have given false license to these Christian Nationalists to take over the government and claim that this is their country. (and they said that all of the time - variations of "this is OUR nation").

When they used "We the People" that really got me, because they are a minority, thus they don't speak for we the people and that's a fact.

Anyway, got political there, oops.

"American Exceptionalism"

"Let's work on that"

"What people say about you is none of your business" - WTH? it's about me, IT IS my business.

" When in Rome"

" Wellness"

" Oh Well" ...... this one is the worst to me .. similiar to .. It is what it is . one has to wonder, why any person with a thinking mind might utter this phrase ... Is it they have given up hope ? or they just do not care ???.

Let me " Axe" you a question

Preggers, just say Pregent

Preggies or Prego for pregnant.

I actually like "it is what it is." To me it means we need to accept and be aware of things as they are and know when there isn't anything we can do to change them. It's about acceptance of sometimes unpleasant realities.

"Is <name of fictional character> autistic?"

"Is <name of historical character> autistic?"

Oh I've thought of another one.

"Touch bases with you." and literally any other corporate lingo. Holy cow, when I hear someone say anything of the sort, I immediately dislike them.

"Should of" instead of "Should have". I'm okay with "Should've". But when I see "should of" written down it just ruins whatever else I've been reading.

Same goes for "Could of" and "Would of".