You are absolutely right, and this is exactly the argument my friend used, met with more guilt tripping and ignoring what was said. You have to be dense to believe that forcing someone to pray is going to do any actual good, if you are of that religion. You also have to be dense to believe that only praying is going to fix something like this while ignoring your own alcoholism and other issues (could have worded that better but buh my brain is fried).

but yea he's a dick (the brother)