Am I wrong in almost hating that saying, "have a blessed day".

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38. You're not wrong.

I am a Christian, and it bugs me that so many people, and especially Evangelicals, seem to have read the verse about making disciples but missed the ones about using ones own gifts (with emphasis on not trying to use gifts you don't have.) Using a phrase that assumes the listener is a Christian not only will not convert anybody (nor even make them feel positive about Christanity nor about the speaker). It's more likely to initiate or increase hostility to that faith.

Frankly, I can't stand it myself. It reeks of compulsion. My mother was a Christian - the kind of Christian who never talked about it outside the church or the home, but who, when she died, inspired the grumpiest of my aunts to tell me, "I think your mother was the most loveng person i have ever met." She told me more than once when I was geowing up that mingling church and state is not just bad for the state, but even worse for the curch. Anyone looking at the MAGA movement from a position og sanity can see exactly what she meant.