Wait until IOF are on those flights.
If I recall correctly, this guy was about to be deported and was desperately trying to get kicked off the deportation flight by being outrageously racist.
Unfortunately, he didn’t get kicked off, he got arrested and deported, and went down in history for being outrageously racist.
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.
Could you quote or at least paraphrase the old testament that shuts them down, for those of us who have not read the bible?
You don’t have to know the bible, just take a step back and look at it. Look at the time period and what was important to them. Look at what the Catholic church tried/tries to suppress (except for what started in the last couple of hundred years). If you have an interest in Egypt at all, that might be a more fun way for you to find it. Part of this is for the christians to try and shut my argument down, they have to figure this out. The people upvoting me know.
Edit: Also, the people downvoting me know too, ha ha.
Oh, I see, you’re just full of shit from the beginning. I see you around and I really need to block or at least tag you before I accidentally waste time reading your comments again
I agree that you should block me, lol. Have a great day.
You haven’t reached the right power level, gotta give them $9,000 to take the three required courses
So, are you Christian or nah?
You don’t have to know, just take a step back and look! Its pretty obvious
So yes, lmao. I’ll give you a huge hint, Egyptian major dieties are very, very similar to Jewish gods from the old testament.
Yeah, I kinda figured the intentionally mysterious and vague answer was a cover for your own lack of ability.
From the cabin it looks like that might be a 737 MAX 8, in which case you’re gonna need those prayers.
Only weak minded people who believe in imaginary vindictive sky daddies need “prayers”.
What they need is a better education.
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
It would be unsettling, I wouldn’t trust them to not be attempting something else.
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.
Think I’d get out and walk the rest of the way.
I’d say beat them senseless but they clearly have no sense to beat.
Throw them out of the plane at 30k ft and see if God wants them to survive.
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.
They would say they aren’t praying for attention, but proselytizing for more converts.
Whoever scores the most souls wins!
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.
I’m not sure they can explicitly say that a part of the bible doesn’t count for them. They can tacitly ignore it, but directly quoting scripture is at least gonna annoy them.
Jesus 6:9 - Shut up, shut up, for the love of me just shut the hell up!
Peter 7.0 - And the Lord sayeth, Nice!
Austin 3:16 - “I just whipped your ass.”
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.
That might get you kicked off.
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The airline has had so many bias incidents when dealing with black passengers that the NAACP issued a travel advisory in 2017, warning black travelers against flying American Airlines.
Well now. They do ethnic hiring or what?
The airline was forced to apologize, so maybe not anymore. Since the precedent is set, I would threaten to sue them if they tried.
Just start yelling Allahu Akba! Over and over.
Well, only if you are ok with also getting thrown off the plane.
Then you’re just making you look as shitty as them. Don’t do that.
If you’re worried about how you might “look” to others who believe that crap, you’ve already lost.
Then vomit on the person preaching
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.
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.
I dunno, dropping a quick 400 feet without warning might get them to shut up.
And then they have their lives ruined by Fox News 24/7 coverage.
This is a big ol set up.
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.
Maybe, but right wing outrage is an impossible and stupid force.
And why would one care? If I made it on Fox News for shutting down a cultist it’d be a mark of pride. The airline itself may suspend you with pay until it blows over in a week but firing or reprimanding someone for shutting down a nut job like that would blow up in the airlines face.
Let the dumb shits whine and cry.
They are probably scared that terrorists are on board who support the religious fanatics. You know how americas are.
First line “there is now an epidemic of” An Epidemic!? Really? An epidemic. Like so many it’s a problem?
I fly a lot, and my whole team for work flies a lot. Never heard of this once.
Also - better than what Islam does.
Everyone knows that an epidemic is defined by a single person’s anecdotal experience
Everyone knows that an epidemic is defined by a single person’s anecdotal experience
Alright, I was on your side until that last bit. Not because the joke’s not PC, it’s just hat on a hat.
Waiting for you to tell me I am wrong.
I never said you were wrong, I said it wasn’t funny. Get a grip
Wasn’t trying to be funny.
He’s not even trying. Why am I talking to this maroon?
Kindred spirits? Horny?
Now that’s funny
What does Islam do?
Islam isn’t any better or worse than other religious doctrine - bad people use it as justification for evil shit just like they would with Christianity or any other belief system. Good people also use it to do good, though that’s entirely debatable depending on the context. I.e. a Christian charity drive in a rural area where the only people benefitting from said charity will be Christian.
Religion bad.
Edit: I am not the OC
Big sus there my favorite mortal Kombat character.
A stereotype in the west is the occurrence that some Muslim members commit “Terrorist” acts. That are ideologically driven against those not in their faith. Sometimes unfairly called Terrorist attacks, sometimes unfairly described as something else.
One of those stereotypes being terrorism on planes circa early 2000s.
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.
what the fuck. this is common?
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
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.
We need to go back to tar-and-feathering people.
Perhaps street lynching isn’t the solution?
Says the guy who unironically wants to meet out mob justice on people who checks notes records people in public.
Oh, you’re that kind of loser. Yeah, I can see why you want camera glasses.
Couldn’t agree more. The imposition and force is what really gets me about these guys. I was raised in the burgeoning evangelical.movement, at what was (on paper) a southern baptist church so these douches aren’t saying anything I haven’t heard before, but my former church members at least had the sense to keep it to themselves
do it.
bad behaviour doesn’t stop if nobody takes action against it
Would be a shame, if someone accidentally flipped the stepladder.
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.
No, no it is not. And anyone telling you it is either 1) is dramatizing the one or two experiences they have over their life 2) live around a person or specific church who are annoying or 3) just lying to you.
My anecdote is I used to see “street preachers” 2-3 times a year. Never talked to any of them. Now I see maybe one a year. But corona threw off the numbers.
The transit thing? Yeah I’d get a guy on the DC Metro pretty regularly who would sing a song then say a verse on the morning commute. He’d basically do it in each car of the train.
how many people react with rage?
here most people would look at each other with that “ah, a crazy person” look until they reach someone who tells them to shut the fuck up
on a trip in france i witnessed one of these types but the reaction of a local was immediate and almost violent. like a verbal explosion against the crazy preching hag. it was a thing of beauty
Most people are too tired in the morning to give a shit or have headphones on. It made me angry for sure but you would be exposed to him at most 5-10 min. He wasn’t confrontational so no one reciprocated.
The first time it happened freaked me out a bit though because you don’t know if it’s like a suicide bomber or something.
I’ve dealt with it
I say lean into it. Praise Jesus so loudly and obnoxiously that the preacher themselves asks you to tone it down a notch.
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.
Well, a polite bunch of Aussies might shout phrases such as “shut up and sit down, ya dumb cunt” at the very least.
