Depending on how comfortable I felt with the questioner, I'd either decline to answer, as my religion is "deeply personal, or" tell them "none of your business."
When the pastor of the Presbyterian church QW attended insisted on quoting the Epistles of Paul to me, I asked him why he set such store in the words of the man who denounced Peter as "that hypocrite in Rome" when, after all, Jesus personally anointed Peter to lead the faithful. He got off his horse, and went home to reread the scripture. He never bothered me again.
I'm quite comfortable with my independent Christianity.
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