(May 15, 2012 at 7:51 pm)Shinton56 Wrote: So I need some advice and I actually have no atheist friends to turn to. So my sister has had very bad relationship with her husband for the past 8 years and they have a 2 year old. The husband has always been mildly religious, but recently has been "saved again " and has so much control over my sister that she's following along whether or not she really believes it.
They currently live with my mother as they depend on eachother for financial reasons and so someone can always watch their child.
Well my sister and her husband recently broke up for about a month and now are working things out through Jesus.
The brother in law wants to move back in the home where his wife, child, and mother in law are, however, he said that unless my mother be "saved" she will have to move out or hebs not moving back in.
All our family is convinced he has used religion as a weapon against her family to control her even more.
What can I say to my brother in law to convince him he is being immoral?
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Ask him if he has any scriptural precedent for his demand or is he just trying to exercise control? If he can not produce any scriptural context (and he won't be able to) then know it is as you say and he is using religion as a weapon, and she should probably not be considering having him move back in anyway.
