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This is for all.........?

My pagan friends say" Blessed Be" while my Cristian friends use" God Bless you".

Is there any difference Or are they same?

Any ideas..?

Update:

Hey what da matter... no one starred me or is it not worth the stars? Don't you want Blessings?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    It is the same for both, it is calling for a higher power to bless you, I have no doubt the other religions also have similar blessings.

    Peace be on you.

  • 1 decade ago

    "GOD BLESS YOU"

    One traditional explanation for the custom is that it began literally as a blessing. Pope Gregory I the Great (AD 540-604) ascended to the Papacy just in time for the start of the bubonic plague in AD 590 (his successor succumbed to it). To combat the plague, Gregory ordered litanies, processions, and unceasing prayer for God's blessing. When someone sneezed (seen as the initial onset of the plague), they were immediately blessed ("God bless you!") in the hope that they would not actually develop the disease.

    As for the Pagan/Wiccan term "BLESSED BE"

    The Fivefold Kiss is a ritual greeting that involves kissing five parts of the body. It is performed during specific rites and ceremonies, like handfasting, in contemporary Wiccan traditions.

    The fivefold kiss is performed within a magic circle, and is symbolic of the homage the God and Goddess pay to each other; thus, it is mostly performed between men and women. Each kiss given is accompanied by a blessing.

    It is possible that the Fivefold Kiss is the origin of the term "blessed be".

    "Blessed be thy feet, that have brought thee in these ways

    Blessed be thy knees, that shall kneel at the sacred altar

    Blessed be thy womb, without which we would not be

    Blessed be thy breasts, formed in beauty

    Blessed be thy lips, that shall utter the Sacred Names."

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe that the general blessing is the same.

  • 1 decade ago

    The five fold kiss is assuredly the source of Blessed Be, and if you can't really mean that about the person you're addressing, you shouldn't use it.

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  • Fatima
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Our forefathers were either Pagans or Jews...yes?

    Be blessed.

  • 1 decade ago

    My Idea;

    They are both positive endearments.

    Pagan or not, "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks".

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