When I introduced a friend to an acquaintance, a person I barely knew myself, after the initial small talks their topic of conversation turned to religion.  My friend is a very open minded priest - in other words, a person of religion, albeit an unusually enlightened and good humoured one – and with whom I invariably hold interesting and intellectually stimulating conversations.  

The new acquaintance, as it transpired, was obviously a person of strong opinions who disliked institutional religions and extreme fundamentalism of any kind.  I find while there was nothing in her views that I actually disagreed with, however, it was not so much what she said as how she said it that brought the conversation to a rather brusque end.  Her opinions were couched in such judgmental terms that she sounded quite fanatic in her dismissal of religions, which, considering she was chatting to a priest, was not conducive to a fruitful discussion on the subject.