Joe the Gnarled
Sage
Take it as the complement that it was meant to be. I strongly suspect she liked you and probably deep down in her heart was saddened by the choice you've made to turn away from what she believes leads to a positive outcome when life ends.
Free will is like that.
As someone who was raised in the bible belt I can tell you that that was defiantly a compliment. I do not want to offend anyone here... but... sometimes they do not understand how the words that come out of their mouths will be taken (or they do and do not care). For the most part they are good people, just a little close minded when it comes to religion.