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"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

Thank God for noise cancelling headphones.

You thought crying babies on a plane were annoying? They can’t control themselves. This grown-ass woman decided the one thing everyone needed to hear on a plane was her annoying voice preaching a message most people wouldn’t want to hear off the plane

I'd prefer a crying baby

I would definitely have words with someone trying this shit.

I am that autistic person who would be quite happy to yell shutup over and over until she got the point.

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...

I am 1000% sure if this was a Muslim preaching they would find a way to stop it.

Thank fuck I don't live in the US.

Why not do this in church?

someone put the radical religious fundamentalists endangering others on a plane on the no fly list and charged them with federal crimes right?

I imagine I will be classes as belligerent when I choke the fucker out.

Look, I am a Christian, and I don't want this either. Don't do this, okay? It's a shitty thing to do, and I'm pretty sure there's a commandment against that.

You can walk away from them on a street, but on an airplane, you're stuck with an annoying preacher for hours

A passenger next to them could always ring the call button and say "this (wo)man just grabbed my nutsack."

Yet they treat the guy with "bombing kids isn't self-defense" shirt like a terrorist but let this bullshit literally fly

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.

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.

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.

Women are allowed to preach now? Don't they read their book?

I'm generally very respectful towards people's religions but I would heckle the shit out of these bastards.

If the airlines can't stop an evangelist from preaching, they can't stop me from blaspheming.

So here’s how this played out in front of my bathroom mirror this morning:

Someone starts yapping about their god or whatever.
I loudly say “No thank you. Please stop.” while ensuring I have caught the eye of the nearest flight attendant.
I give them about 30 seconds to take their bows and sit the fuck down.
If they don’t, I move to the center aisle, stand up, loudly announce that they are creating a disturbance on the plane. I tell them for deeply personal reasons, the topic they are discussing is upsetting and unsettling to me, and if they continue, I will consider their continuation belligerence. I look directly at the flight attendant and tell them that it is their job to prevent passenger belligerence.
If I’m feeling charitable, I’ll mention that freedom of religion is also freedom from religion and that I’m about to freak the fuck out if they don’t shut up the wannabe preacher. And if they don’t, well, then nobody gets to be heard over the sounds of me screaming the account of my then 12-year-old childhood friend being molested by a youth preacher while I watched in the back of a church van.

So says the hero in the bathroom mirror that is devoid of consequence. We all know on this side of the mirror, I would be banned from flying and the idiot TikToker would get a gofundme.

I wonder what would happen if a Muslim tried to do this

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...