I bet it happens to you a lot.

Chiefly due to my lack of religious faith in science.

No, mostly because you come into topics about serious issues and opine inanely about how science is a religion.

You talk past the topic. You get called out on it. You double down. You loftily say that we're talking past each other, when you're the one who tries to insist we follow you on a journey to how science is a religion.

Naturally your experience must be that people are talking past you. Because you don't know how to engage in the conversation, you just know how to divert.

If you insist on talking past the topic then pointing out that we're talking past each other is your first step to, maybe, perhaps, noticing that your approach to this conversation is the problem.

> who tries to insist we follow you on a journey to how science is a religion

It's unclear where I have insisted anyone do anything.

But let me do that now, and insist that you have both the last word and an excellent rest of your life.