This is a cordial conversation and I have no desire to be the first turn it mean. So please read the following in the most charitable light. You seem to apply

This is a cordial conversation and I have no desire to be the first turn it mean. So please read the following in the most charitable light. You seem to apply two standards. To yourself, your personal experience is sufficient. Yet from others, a more rigorous justification is expected. By analogy: if I were Japanese, I would definitely prefer Buddhism over Shinto. Yet, I am not Japanese, which rather undermines my argument. Under such hypothetical circumstances my perspective would surely be other than it actually is now. The reason I pursue this point is that, historically, people with faith have argued unreasonably that the only viable alternative to their unique faith is [name_a_specific_extreme_and_scary_philosophical_position_here]. To be fair, if you are doing this at all, you are doing so only subtly.