My family and I are atheists. Where I live, Ontario, it is really no big deal usually. Theists do not seem to be threatened by atheists, in general, and I applaud them for that.

So I bought myself a new, to me, pick up yesterday and my daughter was very excited about it. So was I. We are in our driveway admiring our new conveyance when my daughter notices the tires, which are of the off road variety and exclaims, “Oh, my glob. Those tires are cool!” (side note…we like Adventure Time and they substitute glob for god in a lot of dialogue. Also, I think exclaiming OMG is crass so I support the substitution)

She notices other neat aspects of the truck, punctuating her satisfaction with our version of OMG multiple times.

Across the road from our house is a bus stop in a residential neighborhood where a woman is standing. She decides to tell my daughter that it is offensive to use the word glob instead of god. I tend to let my daughter deal with situations on her own so I remain silent. My daughter looks at the ground for a second and then clearly says to the woman, “Isn’t saying ‘Oh my god’ taking the lords name in vain?”

The woman looked like she got gut punched. Her mouth hung open and she was at a lose for words. My daughter just smiled politely. I was beaming. I could not have been prouder of her measured use of logic without being a dick about it.

Eventually the bus came, the woman got on and my daughter waved at her all cute like. The woman returned the wave but you could tell what she would be thinking about her entire bus ride.

Just thought that was a fun exchange.