I also say "Oh Shit" what I don't have to do number 2!

Yeah, never stopped using 'god' in my day to day phrases. jesus fucking chist is most often used lol. I think of it as a linguistic habit, nothing more.

I say them in reflex, it's just part of our language. Go tos include, god dammit, holy shit, for the love of christ/god, jfc, christ on a cracker, god in fucking heaven, any combinations and not limited to those lol

I use the expressions "Jesus Christ!", "God dammit!" and "Good lord!" all the time, but I use them as expletives. For me, it's the only thing that they're good for.

My kiddos like to say
Satan Bless you
Thank Satan
Etc....
Makes for some fun

Just expressions
Not a big deal

Jesus Christ is easily one of my favorite exclamations

Doesn’t matter what you explete. It’s your culture. If you get bogged down with semantics you’ll still be stuck in the deist rut. No one will care one way or the other so give yourself a break and don’t give it any concern.

I've taught myself to say "Thank the Gods". It usually pisses of the Christians, which is my point. Personally, I just see it as a saying. Nothing more.

I've trained myself to say "thank goodness" in situations like you described instead.

Use the phrase, "Great Maker". . .

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Yes. I replace god with "goodness". Easy enough. I try to be literal. I thank whoever is responsible, even my brain.

I often say "god damn it" or "Jesus fucking Christ!"

Expressions built into common vernacular nothing to do with deity

A while back, I visited India. I don't know how I managed to lose my entry card in 20 minutes, but I managed to. The only words that came to mind were along the lines of Sacred bovine dung! And Sexual intercourse! And *What a current act of intercourse I must be!

Oh my God, did you really said that???

If I happen to say "Thank god" I don't necessarily mean a specific god. Maybe I mean Thor or Zeus or Amon-Ra. Just the same as when you say "Holy shit" you don't mean one specific shit that is holier than all other shits.

I play a lot of online golf and I worship the golf gods when they help me win....lol

I say things like that all the time. It's just a universal cultural conditioning, nothing to worry about. If I have a chance to think about such things, I'll say things like "Gad Zooks," "by Jove," "by Godfrey" (picked that up from Edmund Morris, "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" in 1979!), or my favorite, "heavens to Murgatroyd!"
Most people say "god bless you" when you sneeze. This dates back to Mycenaean times when they believed that the psyche (soul) left the body upon sneezing and Hades would be invoked to reunite psyche and body. I always say "Gesundheit" (German for "health).

Cultural conditioning.

Of course, I watch a lot of Futurama reruns, so I often say, "Oh your God!"

Invoking God has crept into our language similar to the way Heil Hitler crept into the German language it is an expression.
I am told that it is a special sin offensive to Christians good.

IMHO, they are just saying out of habit.
There are myriad of other common sayings that have came from other meanings, most we don't even know where they came from.
I've seen some literature on the origins of many sayings, but honestly none come to mind at the moment, although I might just look that up again.
So, I really don't put much weight to hearing, or saying them.

But, what about something in us, that is more than our consciousness? A psychic part, I could easily call that a ‘god part’ of my own nature. Because, often times I have things happen that I could never have experienced before and could not have a memory of! We can thank our ‘higher self!’

As with everything else, religion has co-opted and dominates even our language.

I catch myself using religious terms but I try to avoid that. I don't want to promote religious myths. I try to say instead, "Thanks goodness" or thank you Zeus".

Its just words, not a proclamation.

Oh my God seems like the right thing to scream during sex