Excellent ideas on ways to respond respectfully to someone trying to convert you can be found in "A Manual for Creating Atheists" by Peter Boghossian. Who knows, you might even create a few atheists even if it wasn't your intent.
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I get this at work everyday. It goes in one ear and out the other. Sometimes that garbage doesn’t reach my ear, I have mastered selective deafness. This year has extra jesus for some reason, maybe the fear of so many people walking away from the church. I’m usually that person who don’t respond but this Christmas is going to be clap back season. An unabashed atheist.

There's nothing wrong with being nice.

I just think of it as extremism. If you took any label, besides a religious one, the situation would still be annoying. Thinking about it from that perspective also helped me learn to not push my beliefs on anyone.

Nobody out and about needs to know my beliefs or lack of, just like I don't need to know theirs. I mostly just skate by on people assuming I'm spiritual. I'll pretty much do whatever it takes to avoid a religious topic. Lol

Why were you so polite? Did you fear making them angry?

It all depends on your relationship to the woman and how much time you want to waste on trivia. I personally don't care what others believe as long as they leave me alone.

You don't, but it is probably better that you did.

Someone has to be.

Good way to end it. She already knows how you feel and a challenge would be fruitless.

While I agree it is frustrating to have someone attempt to impose their belief on you, in a case like this, it seems like a non issue.