Good grief, lighten up people. For all you know it was a figure of speech not the start of an international incident.
There's room in the world for people to believe anything they want to, provided it doesn't infringe the rights of other people. Many atheists will invoke God in times of stress. OMG is one of the most common abbreviations on the internet.
Life is tough enough without the religious police making sure we don't murmur 'thank god' when things work out.