I love people who are rude to me on the phone and close the conversation by saying "God bless you."

[lightningandsnow]

I'm a receptionist at a temp agency, and this happens more often than you might think.

[MajorChode]

1. Reminds me of fucksticks that cut you off in traffic with the fish symbol on their trunk

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. It's condescension, pure and simple...

...and I say that as a Christian.

I mean, I DO say "God Bless You"...often, but never indiscriminately, never to a total stranger I've just spent 5 minutes with, and never as a "screw you" at the end of an argument.

The reason(s) behind why people do that in the situations you've described are simple. It's basically an "I'm OK, you suck" move, in which the "blesser" takes the moral high ground over the "blessee."

They are essentially hiding behind a "god" (lower case intentional) that they don't truly believe in to begin with.

For many Christians, myself included, one of the biggest ongoing pains in the ass is "other Christians."

:toast: