You may have a point, but I wrote as I reacted. And I think that the very coolness, as much as the arrogance and ignorance, was what made me see red. A human being can put up with anger, even with insults. But to be informed as from a great height that what you value and consider right and just is a "weird Middle Eastern crucifixion cult", tyrannical, murderous, and probably connected with filth and lice, is more than flesh and blood can bear, as far as I am concerned. And I absolutely refuse to lessen the impact of my response. If she does not know that that sort of language is offensive, she has not lived or learned long enough, and it is time she learned. If a thing is offensive, you gain nothing by not making it clear that it is.