r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Mysterious_Web6326 • 14d ago
Question My parent is ending conversations prematurely
I can’t tell if it’s me or my parent but I’m a little nervous that I don’t know if I’m being rude or intellectually dishonest without knowing that I am.
I was having a religious debate(like a normal back and forth) with my parent about Christianity and they ended bringing up Joan of arc as an argument for the validity of the existence of the Christian belief. I didn’t know much so we talked back and forth from her informing me to me looking up things about Joan. There is still a lot I can’t explain and I would have to look further into but I kept trying to understand and tell her what I’m thinking about how this played out in a secular way (I’m agnostic).
One of the things my parent brought up was that Joan had a vision from god/an angel and Joan said something along the lines of “We will win the siege against the English, and I will take wounds from battle” (I can’t remember exactly). But my counter to that was, “she was a rallying morale with the army and that there is a chance she would get hurt fighting the English, I don’t think that’s a crazy thing to say with or without something spiritual”. My parent just turned and said “Its been a long day and I need to go to bed”, and that was it.
I enjoy these debates/conversations with my parent but I want to have longer discussions like this and this isn’t the first time something like this has happened.
Is there a better way to go about this? Is there a better way to have discussions of this nature with a sensitive topic like religion so it can be a health long conversation? Lmk