Ohhh, picking sides, autocorrect. I see you.

In fifth grade I corrected my Jewish teacher in front of the whole class when she wrote the word “God” on the chalkboard without a capital “g” and I got in trouble for being rude and for being wrong. Then I tattletaled on the teacher to my parents that she wasn’t capitalizing properly and I think we all had to sit down and have a biiiig talk about it. I thought it was blasphemous to uncapitalize it, not because I was a grammar czar but because that’s what I’d been taught in Sunday school. Turns out that’s mainly a Christian thing. Or it was for my church anyways (I’ve met several people who’ve grown up in church through the years and had never heard of this “rule”).

What’s the point? The point is that the capitalization of the word is certainly not a universal truth. And yet autocorrect thinks it is. Now that I’m pretty much an atheist I’m kind of offended that every time I write the word—and this is usually in a swearing or sarcastic context—and it autocorrects it to make me look religious, or at least like I care. Which I don’t. Intentionally. Since fifth grade.

Rant over.

Thoughts?