Helpful advice to the OP would be appreciated. Anything discussing religion on it's own warrants closing of the thread. I'd recommend the helpful and encouraging advice path.
We don't actually know that he's not asking them for money or drinking out of control... we only know that he has a pretty nice brewing set up in less than 2 years (since he got married), runs obsessively, and has lots of other hobbies (from the first thread). Oh, and he drinks daily, but it's not a problem, because he doesn't like to get "drunk."
You weren't the one bashing religion, but check the thread, it's not like it hasn't come up. The overwhelming response is that he should cut them off, leave his church, be snarky to them, be passive aggressive, or out-and-out hostile. No one asked, "Well, how much have you spent on brewing in 2 years? Is it affordable?"
No one asked if his wife was really on board with it, or just kept submissive.
The quick reaction was on the side of homebrew. Which is nice, but it's a hobby. It's not a marriage or a family bond.
Helpful advice to the OP would be appreciated. Anything discussing religion on it's own warrants closing of the thread. I'd recommend the helpful and encouraging advice path.
Helpful advice to the OP would be appreciated. Anything discussing religion on it's own warrants closing of the thread. I'd recommend the helpful and encouraging advice path.
nine pages of posts and no one has provided the obvious answer, which is to give 10% of your beer to the church.
The underlying issue is the formation of a false logic, i.e. All people who drink beer are alcoholics. I for one am a supporter of showing their judgment to be wrong by example. Show them that you are more than just a home brewer. Be a great dad, a loving husband, an extra hand when needed. Over time, people tend to see the truth in people. And if they don't, then that's on them, not on you. Then you can remind them that its ok, and you forgive them for their judgment, because that's what jesus says to do.
Helpful advice to the OP would be appreciated. Anything discussing religion on it's own warrants closing of the thread. I'd recommend the helpful and encouraging advice path.
In-laws and family members can and will do and say things they may not be aware are striking deeper than they realize. This includes us all. Sometimes it's hard to keep our mouths shut and even a slight comment can cling to another's psyche for the rest of their life without us knowing it. I know, I've done it to my own family members.
Before we got married, my wife and I were living together and thought nothing of it, and convinced ourselves that both sets of our church-going parents didn't care because we didn't care and treated it so casually. Eventually, as we grew up and grew together, our thinking, priorities and habits changed and we realized that our parents had cared, but had given us the grace to do --- right or wrong --- what we did without comment or intervention. On the back side of that we learned more by fumbling through the ramifications of our behavior than we would have had they made their judgments vocal or confrontational, or had tried to stop us. I suspect there were discussions about us, but never in front of us.
I mention this as a reminder to the rest of us who WILL at some point in time, say or do something to someone in the same manner the OP's FIL has confronted him. And for those of us who find ourselves at the receiving end of the confrontation, as one poster suggested: take the higher road. There's enough grace to go around.
This may be the second wisest thing I've ever read on HBT.
This is the problem with this thread. They've gone from being a bit too involved in their son in law's life to being "wrong" for not drinking. Science and religion get along fine. Dogmatic people don't get along (science dogma or any other kind of dogma).
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