I feel for you hooah.
In conversation the other night with my mother I hit a nerve and the retort was "Look, I've had my faith for 50+ years, I'm not going to let you take it away from me now!"
I tried to think back to precisely what I had said that illicited this response.
Basically I had been defending my position as an atheist against a "critique" from my step-father, who was putting forward the argument that my conclusion that there probably is no god was as big a jump in logic as his conclusion that there probably is one.
I tried to explain why this was a fallacy, why these two conclusions are not on equal footing, and in the process I (ill-advisedly) put forward the idea that my "disbelief" was more firmly founded in logic and reason than their "belief".
Anyway, somewhere along the way I hit a nerve and I think my mother felt as though I was saying that believers are silly or gullible. Although in some company I might put forward that exact argument, I realised that I shouldn't be making that assertion to my mother, a professed believer. To back down a little is perhaps intellectually dishonest, but this is my mother after all.
In the end we were getting along fine again with no hard feelings. Afterwards I viewed some Christopher Hitchens videos on youtube to cleanse myself of the feelings of intellectual dishonesty.
Hope things turn out okay in your situation.
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