Oh lordy.
Now I get the email: It’s a weekly discussion.
This is what I get for being a nice guy.
The hell you say!
Are you going to go?
I am not planning to attend the second one. I’m not in any way troubled by telling my FIL this.
The worst part is that I’d be happy to engage in a discussion. But this is terrible.
Monday the following question was posed: If you could ask god one question, what would it be? Leaving aside the presumptiveness of that, literally everyone asked “why so much suffering in the world?” Come on. Even I could give a religious answer to that. I asked “why does he wait 2000 years between visits?”
I seriously don’t think any of them wanted to discuss that.
They’d be happy to have you. They would not appreciate your contributions, I suspect.
Again, I’ll ask “Just you, and not your wife?”
Seems suspicious that you were invited, that you alone are getting the emails, that you are getting put on the spot*, and not your wife?
I mean, if it was “just a discussion”, why exclude her? What would dad’s reason be to not invite his daughter, but to make a point of inviting her husband?
One more clue that the plan might be “Let’s all gang up on the heathen, he’ll crack eventually.”
*(with Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego…)
Hey! Hands off she’s mine.
It sounded like a trap from the get-go.
I would do it with a bottle of Fireball clearly in the video. Every time he said the word “Jesus” I’d do a shot and smack the table and make that face cowboys make in westerns. Any emails from him would be met with an auto generated link to Fireball and sent to a dead letter folder.
My oldest brother would talk in front of our kids about how the earth was less than 10000 years old. That was until around 10 years ago, after his second marriage ended. He got into meditation, and became interested in Buddhism. He also became politically much more liberal. So it’s never too late to evolve.
Noping out of the weekly calls is the right decision. Good call by you.
Ironically, they’re arguing in bad faith.
I don’t know why just me. Maybe they think I’m the one that needs saving.
My wife doesn’t have a great relationship with her parents (which is part of why I don’t).
Initially I took him at his word that this was some sort of debate club and he wanted a non-catholic voice. Clearly he’s full of shit.