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[–] Beth@piefed.social 5 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

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

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 hours ago

Straight up tell that crazy to shut the fuck up.

[–] dumnezero@piefed.social 39 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Imagine if satanists did this.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] JayJLeas@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

I think they're called imams.

[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour 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

My AirPods have entered the chat

[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

goddamn religion dinosaurs. If there is a God, he gave you BRAINS to not hang in 2000 year old crapp without thinking. You're insulting him.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 165 points 6 hours ago (2 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 5 points 37 minutes 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 2 points 34 minutes ago

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

[–] crozilla@lemmy.world 114 points 6 hours ago (2 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 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

Peter 7.0 - And the Lord sayeth, Nice!

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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours 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 8 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

what the fuck. this is common?

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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 3 points 2 hours 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 5 points 2 hours 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 1 points 54 minutes ago

do it.

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

[–] Furbag@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Would be a shame, if someone accidentally flipped the stepladder.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago) (2 children)

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 preaching hag. it was a thing of beauty

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 1 hour ago

Speak up, get stabbed.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 47 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 26 points 6 hours 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 6 points 2 hours 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 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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

[–] cannedheat@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 hours 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.

[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

Just start yelling Allahu Akba! Over and over.

Well, only if you are ok with also getting thrown off the plane.

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[–] kubica@fedia.io 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 hours 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.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 23 points 7 hours ago

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

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