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Christian preachers are turning airplanes into unwanted worship services (www.friendlyatheist.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/atheism@lemmy.world

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 184 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

There’s unfortunately very little airline staff can do to stop this.

Bullshit. The flight attendants and especially captains’ word is law on a plane. They say stop and they don’t they can and should absolutely charge them with disobeying the instructions of airline staff (something we see all the time) and blacklist them.

[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago

I can guarantee that will happen more quickly if they are quoting from a different holy text (for American flights).

Source: United Airlines Flight 93.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I dunno, dropping a quick 400 feet without warning might get them to shut up.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And then they have their lives ruined by Fox News 24/7 coverage.

This is a big ol set up.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I think the reverse can be true if footage is filmed by other onlookers which then is uploaded to social media for influencers to break down what happened.

The dude in a Target making a scene about the Satanic pride wear (the artist drew some devils in unrelated work) was pretty much a flop.

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[–] crozilla@lemmy.world 115 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Matthew 6:1 - do not practice righteousness just to be seen by people.

Matthew 6:5 - prayer is not meant to become a performance for attention.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Jesus 6:9 - Shut up, shut up, for the love of me just shut the hell up!

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Peter 7.0 - And the Lord sayeth, Nice!

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[–] LordDaveTheKind@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is Matthew relevant for the average American Christian Conservative? As far as I can remember, he's the main one of the four Evangelists who highlights themes of compassion, care of the neighbour and sheltering of the stranger.

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[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 49 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Imagine if Islam preachers (or whatever is the equivalent role) were doing that.

[–] JayJLeas@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think they're called imams.

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Imagine if satanists did this.

[–] DucksInTrenchCoat@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

As long as there's orgies.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

I would be stoked if a Satanist¹ rose up to counter an evangelist like this and was prepared to do so.

¹ Is satanist proper? I know there are different kinds of satanists, from TST folk to LaVeyan Satanists and unlike Christians, have very little to do with each other.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Would be sick with a little fog machine. Line your robe with red LED strips. Etc.

[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

brown man with turban and a book stands up

omg I don't wanna die!

white man in a suit holding a book stands up

eyeroll

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Tbf Islam has its share of bigots like this, but it's still fun to imagine how the Christian ones would react.

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago

Think I'd get out and walk the rest of the way.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is already insufferable on mass transit when people do this shit but at least that’s a short ride most of the time.

It’s a real sign of how poor your message is when you have to trap people to get them to listen to it.

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

what the fuck. this is common?

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In America, yes. My truck driver stepfather stopped using his CB because it was incessant preaching or childish fighting 99% of the time. Only turned it on for info on traffic jams he got stuck in, and at customers who used them to tell trucks when they'd been assigned a dock door (back before they finally started calling them instead).

Religion is used to manipulate people and also turn them into sheeple. As America has proven, it's devastatingly effective.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Even without public transit, it's still very common here in the states. There's a handful of street preachers in my city that stand on step ladders at busy intersections with megaphones to preach to people stuck in traffic at rush hour

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There's a guy in my town (in the UK) who sometimes stands outside a supermarket near me with a loudspeaker, preaching his gospels, and honestly, I keep wanting to tell him to fuck off.

Why does he think he has the right to amplify himself, to preach hellfire and brimstone at people who are just trying to go about their days. If he just shouted, then fine, whatever, it's a free world. But to use amplification is just cunty.

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

do it.

bad behaviour doesn't stop if nobody takes action against it

[–] Furbag@pawb.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

We need to go back to tar-and-feathering people.

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

"Having a religion is much like having a penis. It's all well and good to have one, and one can even be proud of it. However, when you whip it out in public and bandy it about to my face, we will have problems."

Dame Maggie Smith

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[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can’t see someone trying this on a plane full of Aussies and not catching hands.

We all know which country all these weirdos are from.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well, a polite bunch of Aussies might shout phrases such as "shut up and sit down, ya dumb cunt" at the very least.

[–] cannedheat@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Seems like a good excuse for some repetitive "hail Satan"s. And then be surprised that you can see the demon inside her. Act like it's the worst demon you've ever seen.

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[–] Beth@piefed.social 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I would sing baby shark loudly. I shut up when they shut up. And I can belt.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Incredible solution. I would be singing with you. Bet we wouldn't make it past mommy shark.

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

being that i am held captive in the tube, can i consider this a form of assault?

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck that. I'd be the first one to shout "SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!" if someone started preaching on my flight. Stupid arrogant motherfuckers think they can do whatever they want.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

From the cabin it looks like that might be a 737 MAX 8, in which case you’re gonna need those prayers.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Only weak minded people who believe in imaginary vindictive sky daddies need "prayers".

What they need is a better education.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well, two MAX 8’s crashed due to Boeing’s lies, and they had the temerity to continue lying about it afterwards. Then, the fuckin’ door fell off of a MAX 9 because some overworked tech forgot to install the bolts and every downstream quality check also missed it. Despite this, the evidence shows that they’re still about as statistically safe as “safe” air travel gets.

Southwest’s fleet is mostly MAX airframes now, which makes their routes cheaper. If I want to go anywhere and still have money when (or if) I arrive, it basically means I end up on one of these aircraft now and again. So, personally I’m fine with eating an obnoxious prayer from an overzealous Christ-fluencer just in case my next flight happens to coincide with Boeing’s golden-parachuted C-suites once again betting the farm on their latest venture.

I try to temper my Atheism with the knowledge that I’m always about one in-flight emergency away from taking a verbal leap of faith. That, and whatever keeps the cattle docile while stuffed into an aluminum tube at 40,000 feet is good enough for me. :P

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago

Straight up tell that crazy to shut the fuck up.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 weeks ago

I'd say beat them senseless but they clearly have no sense to beat.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It would be unsettling, I wouldn't trust them to not be attempting something else.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago

I'd be telling the flight attendant that they're clearing suffering from a mental break and preaching before they try to kill people on the plane and themselves, and I feel quite unsafe as a result of a clearly mentally ill person being allowed to carry on so with some crazy pre-hijacking-attempt hype service from their chosen sky person.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Everyone memorize these words "flight attendant, would you please shut this religious zealot up or I'm going to change my phone's wifi to bomb"

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[–] timochka@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago

Another normal day in the Federal Republic of Dumbfuckistan...

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Sky Daddy, I'm up here so close to you! Can you hear me? SSKKKYY DDAADDDY?!

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

My AirPods have entered the chat

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Throw them out of the plane at 30k ft and see if God wants them to survive.

[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago

I don't like the idea of people thousands of years after my death pretending to know me. You get an echo at best, an image. Jesus is whatever you want him to be because he's not here to prove otherwise.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

This is going to sound "I'm very bad ass," but it's usually an easy thing to shut down, I've done it before (not at an airplane, but a bunch of people surrounding me and yelling at me). The dumb ones go silent and the smart one's eyes go dark. I bet anyone here could shut that down in about 20 seconds by not debating, but mentioning the core of the old testament.

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