However, I think sometimes everyone has a tendency to take a person's disagreement as an attack.
Disagreements on religious matters are not, for the most part, comfortable for anyone. It becomes very difficult when people believe they are absolutely wholly right on every jot and tittle. You can air your perspective, but then the conversation redirects to person A's unmovable mountain.
Don't get me wrong. I do admire when a person stands in their truth and walks in their truth. But there are ways to keep a conversation going if we focus more on what we have in common than what divides us.
To site a personal example, I was introduced to a very Christian man who took issue with my beliefs. He spent a good 15-20 minute lambasting me (my hair was flying backward in his wind). I didn't say a thing. I waited for that pregnant pause and responded, "I know that's what you believe, but let me tell you the truth of MY beliefs. I would ask you politely give me that time since, I did likewise."
By the end of the night there was far less animosity. All it took was active listening