because curses couldn't hurt one if one's faith was strong, and ghosts didn't exist according to the bible; someone else said she was taking the latter too literally.

Yeah, neither of those is the reason I'd have opted out of the argument in the first place.

She cheerfully talked about having had two abortions, and that she now prayed to God to take her fertility and give it to someone who didn't already have enough kids, which I suspect is a more old-school view of the matter than that held by most present-day conservatives.

Agreed, but I think refreshingly so.