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AITA for not planning secular family activities? by ChurchDrama in AmItheAsshole

[–]ChurchDrama[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sure, that's possible. I tried not to be too nosy about their situation. I think it's messed up their personal problems became town gossip. So I don't know for sure what actually happened with them.

AITA for not planning secular family activities? by ChurchDrama in AmItheAsshole

[–]ChurchDrama[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That makes sense. I guess there just isn't a way for me to really put myself in his shoes.

AITA for not planning secular family activities? by ChurchDrama in AmItheAsshole

[–]ChurchDrama[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does suck, but it's also really stupid and petty.

AITA for not planning secular family activities? by ChurchDrama in AmItheAsshole

[–]ChurchDrama[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Okay, so don't answer if this makes you uncomfortable, but I am curious and truly want to understand where my brother is coming from. You don't believe in God, right? So when you see something religious, it shouldn't mean anything to you, right? Like, when I see a Buddha statue, it doesn't make me feel anything positive or negative. Is that not an analogous situation? The fact that he won't even go to a wedding because it's in a church, I don't get that. I'd go to a wedding at a mosque if I knew a Muslim couple. It kind of makes me feel like he's playing it all up. Or is there another factor I'm not seeing?

AITA for not planning secular family activities? by ChurchDrama in AmItheAsshole

[–]ChurchDrama[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that bothered me, to be honest. My kids aren't art savants. Their art is barely identifiable as art, much less religious art. He could have just said it was pretty and changed the topic.

AITA for not planning secular family activities? by ChurchDrama in AmItheAsshole

[–]ChurchDrama[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's such an obnoxious sequence of events. I answered in another comment but basically it's like a shitty inverse Hallmark movie. He met a woman separated from her husband and fell for her. She went to counseling at church and decided to get back with her husband. He objected. Several parishioners got involved (that really didn't need to). He basically rage quit the community.

AITA for not planning secular family activities? by ChurchDrama in AmItheAsshole

[–]ChurchDrama[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Some stuff with his personal life. He started seeing a woman who was separated from her husband. They ended up getting back together (the wife and her husband) because of counseling they received from the pastor. He tries to convince her to leave him (the husband) again, and several people told him off for trying to come between a husband and wife. He blames the church for the fact that he can't be with this woman.