No I show my disrespect by using small letters even to our piece of shit in chief trump.

No problem whatsoever. I must admit it makes me giggle a little whenever I'm told I'm not showing "proper respect" by my use of lowercase letters. Makes me even more committed to using them.

I always write god in lower case.

No.

Nope....

I only use capitals if they are at the beginning of a sentence

Funny I write god as well same reason

Excellent reminder ...and doin my best.. Good thing my spell checker views ‘trump’ as a legitimate word, if not a legitimate person

Even when I was a small child during religious instruction at school my brain was always saying "hang on - this sounds like a load of woo-woo make-believe dreck to me" even as the teacher read out the lesson - so really, I've never believed G-d exists. However, I still write the word like that (or HaShem, since in Judaism you're not supposed to write the G-word in case you later accidentally disrespect Him by throwing His name in the bin or something. Old habits die hard; for that reason, I don't really worry about how people write whatever name they happen to use for a god.

Autocorrect must have an algorithm that never replaces a capital letter with a lower case no matter how many times I correct it, that seems pernicious to me, and the Webster dictionary App actually includes the phrase "Christian science" when looking up the word "science", that also seems suspect.

I make a concerted effort to not capitalize any of it. I practice this daily as I am a transcriptionist. However, like @Bam85 sometimes it must be capitalized to be correct.

Unfortunately, I don’t have time to correct the autocorrect.

i see a few people using dog and I love it

Only problem is the spell checker and autocorrect.

I never felt that capitalizing a word lent it any reverence or respect. Just as I continue to capitalize peoples names, many of them not worthy of my respect.

At the same time, I do not feel a need to intentionally disrespect other's beliefs. To each their own.

It depends on the context. If I am writing about gods in general, or about a single god in hypothetical terms, then I do not capitalize. If I happen to be making a reference to the Christian god, or God, then I capitalize. For the other words, I use a similar approach. There is a book which is called The Bible. If I am making reference to that book specifically, then I capitalize.

So, for example, I might say, "Atheism is not a religion, believes in no god, has no bible. Christianity worships God, and believes the contents of The Bible literally contains their god's words."

I use God to imply a specific god. It's about it being a name, and you use a capital letter for names. If you intentionally do it to not show respect, the religious people will not respect you. Show respect to get respect.

Bible is a word, it does not have to be capatilised, nor does church. However, using the Bible typically will distinguish it as the Christian bible, as opposed to any other bible. Using Church instead of church, will typically distinguish between the metaphysical Church, and an actual physical building.

If you are using it as a proper noun, then capatilse it. Stop bastardising English because you don't believe in God, or any god.

When the Roman Citizens were making a ledger of their possessions they used to list their slaves with capital letters so if you use capitals in your name you are telling everyone that you are a slave!

Thanks for all your replies - what shocks me first is that in America (see I used a capital!) your autocorrect capitalises words which shouldn't be - we don't have that in England - shocking that even your computer can decide how you think! And what shocks me secondly (or second if you're American - it's actually an adverb), is how many pseudo-intellectuals have put the English language on hold by telling us what is or is not correct - without knowing that language is a living thing and is constantly changing. Language can be a powerful tool, but you've got to know how to use it.

When I'm referring to any god as a proper noun, then I capitalize it. If I'm talking about a specific deity, such as GOD... yes. If Church is used as a proper noun, i.e. The First Church of the Church that didn't feel like a Church, then Yes. If I'm talking about a generic church, then no. If I'm referring to the collection of holy books in the Christian and Jewish faith, then I capitalize Bible. If the word in in a title, "The Nose Piercer's Bible..." Then I capitalize Bible. But if I'm talking about bible in it's generic form, such as, "this is the nose piercer's bible, you should read it... " then no.

It's simple grammar, and I'm not going to stop using grammar correctly because I'm afraid of a letter.

I think it's a very trivial and unimportant issue. Who cares if you use upper or lower casel letters or not? Ridiculous!

I use God when referring to the Abrahamic deity because I think it's common practice. I consider it akin to capitalizing Thor, Zeus, and Anubis.