There’s now, apparently, an epidemic of Christians who get on planes and begin preaching when they know they finally have a captive audience. Evangelist Whitney Lynn, one of the more notorious culprits of this, even said as much in a recent TikTok post: “I just love a captive audience.”
The fact that the sermons are unwanted doesn’t bother the evangelists at all because, for once, they have an audience that can’t walk away. And the hope that strangers might convert outweighs any concern that they’ll conclude Christians are lunatics.
There’s unfortunately very little airline staff can do to stop this. While there are rules regarding passengers who are disobedient or belligerent, preaching doesn’t necessarily cross a line. Flight attendants can politely ask them to stop, but I have yet to see any examples of plane preachers getting kicked off flights because they wouldn’t shut up.
Which means we’re just stuck with the possibility Christians may hijack a flight with their voices.
How is this not being belligerent? What if this was a MAGAt doing this (probably already is)?
If anything, this seems like a quick way for a fellow passenger to get annoyed and punch out the disruptive preacher. If this happened on a plane I was on, I’d clap for the person who decked the preacher. It really says something about how this “religion” is dying off if thos is a tactic they’re resorting to.
*Edit: if I were the flight crew, I’d start by asking the passenger to sit down. If they didn’t I’d warn the passenger with something like:
Ma’am, you are continuing to be being a disruption despite being told you knock it off. You can either sit down and be quiet, or you will be sat down and quieted. Please take your seat.
Then if they still insited, I’d either have an air marshall “take care of them” them, or I would.
There’s unfortunately very little airline staff can do to stop this. While there are rules regarding passengers who are disobedient or belligerent, preaching doesn’t necessarily cross a line. Flight attendants can politely ask them to stop, but I have yet to see any examples of plane preachers getting kicked off flights because they wouldn’t shut up.
100% if someone got up preaching Islam or Satan, they’d get kicked off and put on the no fly list.
Classic case of “Fascism? Sorry, nothing we can do.”
Airlines can put them on the no fly list and the problem is solved.
Also from google “the FAA enforces a strict zero-tolerance policy and can propose civil penalties exceeding $40,000 per violation for unruly behavior or refusing to obey crew instructions”
Airlines which choose not to do this are complicit with the obnoxious preachers.
I got kicked off a flight for being too drunk. People would rather my drunk ass in a plane than this shirt. Atleast I was quite
theres nothing they can do cause shes white and christian.
Get a muslim imam up there and I bet you they divert the airplane and have a tactical squad ready at the gate.
They diverted some AA flight a couple of months ago because some guy’s phone alarm went off in his checked bag lmao.
Was that the guy who had the alarm set for prayer?
I think so yeah, afaik it was never confirmed but that’s what some outlets reported.
Yet they treat the guy with “bombing kids isn’t self-defense” shirt like a terrorist but let this bullshit literally fly
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. … But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6
I love going to these ‘public worship services’ with this verse on a protest sign. When people ask me which verse it is, I tell them that it’s better to look it up themselves because I don’t want to distort Jesus’ message, and they should really hear it directly from him.
Haha, I made you look up how your god insulted you.
I am 1000% sure if this was a Muslim preaching they would find a way to stop it.
That hypothetical Muslim would 100% get shot for the attempt, even if they eventually agreed to shut up.
Women are allowed to preach now? Don’t they read their book?
Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. - 1 Timothy 2:9-10
Isnt denying women the right to preach basically what caused the baptist schism and lead to the southern baptist convention being formed.
The Southern Baptist Convention was formed because they wanted to keep doing slavery.
if an airline allowed this to happen, I would never fly with that airline again. I bought a ticket for a respectful flight, if they can’t provide that…
Not like there’s a wide variety of airline options to begin with. Idk how much choice you really have in the matter
I don’t fly much, so I have some flexibility. I would legitimately change my travel plans to not fly with that company again
… Then they are accomplices to Christian extremism and actively discriminating against other religions.
someone put the radical religious fundamentalists endangering others on a plane on the no fly list and charged them with federal crimes right?
I would definitely have words with someone trying this shit.
I don’t think I’d be able to help myself. Like, wtf is wrong with you? Preaching to a bunch of stressed out people stuck in a tuna can is just fucked.
This happened in Africa all the time on buses in Africa. Christian and Muslim preachers. To be fair, there was a significant chance everyone was going to die in a crash soon, so that may have had something to do with it.
Happens on subways and buses in NYC from time to time, as well
I would probably respond to every line he says with something like “Lucifer accepts your praise” “The darklord knows that you keep him in your heart” "Each prayer strengthens your beloved Satan, he casts a boon to all his worshippers. What do you ask of him? " ad infinitum…
Jesus the hardline Orthodox Jew from first century Galilee would not recognize this religion and would be appalled that gentiles had created an entirely new one from the worship of his idol. If he came back to life today he would have far more in common with the Haredi Jews than anyone who claims themselves “Christian”. This modern Christianity is the religion of Paul, almost totally and completely diverged from what Jesus believed or taught.
Jesus the hardline Orthodox Jew from first century Galilee would not recognize this religion
People getting up on big rocks and screaming incoherently at crowds of people was an incredibly popular past time in the Bronze Age. Romans documented this phenomenon exhaustively. Particularly, Roman historian Flavius Josephus and Roman writers like Tacitus and Suetonius.
Jesus wouldn’t just know these guys, he’d (arguably) be one of them.
This modern Christianity is the religion of Paul, almost totally and completely diverged from what Jesus believed or taught.
We’ve canonically got four different versions of Jesus to choose from, so you’re going to need to be more precise.
*pastime
Jesus was a Jewish man with a Jewish message for Jews. Apocalypticism is the term you are searching for, and yes, there were several apocalyptic preachers obsessed with the book of Daniel in Jesus’ time, there were probably half a dozen guys crucified for doing the same things Jesus did that week, ultimately culminating with Simon bar Kokhba. “People getting up on big rocks and screaming incoherently” is a bit reductive, but I digress. Fuck the canon. The gospel of Thomas is almost as old as Mark, certainly older that Luke, John, or Matthew, and they’re all eponymous. Modern scholars have a far more accurate view of what went on than whoever transcribed (in many cases incorrectly, probably deliberately), edited (heavily), and compiled (discriminately) the “canon”, a century or more after the man lived.
Christianity is a cult that sprung up to explain why the events Jesus prophesied did not happen in the generation of his lifetime, as he said they would.
“For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.”
MATTHEW 5:18
The context of “the law” in first century Judea is obvious.
Jesus was a Jewish man with a Jewish message for Jews.
Idk about that. A big part of his sermon was very explicitly aimed at gentiles.
Idk about that. Bit of a stretch. Consider the source and all it’s beneficiaries.
would be appalled that gentiles had created an entirely new one from the worship of his ido
Is it fair to say they’re a form of the gentiles? I think they’re more like the pharisees.
I’m sorry I don’t follow, can you clarify?
The pharisees are the literal holier-than-thou chief preists and scholars who ran the trial before the Romans to crucified Jesus (See Mark 15:1—15).
Wololo fail
