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Florida evangelist Whitney Lynn uses most of her flights as an opportunity to share her faith, a trend that was featured in a recent Washington Post article. On Thursday, she said, her sermon got her kicked off a San Diego-bound jet before it even took off from Orlando International Airport. She documented the removal in a series of videos she posted on social media, one of which had racked up 3 million views on Instagram by Friday afternoon.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

And yet she would probably refuse a chance to be martyred by being a rodeo clown. It is would be as close as we can get her to the Xian Colosseum obsession.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

This lady is gonna end up with her own megachurch isn’t she?

[–] ReverendIrreverence@piefed.social 33 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Matthew 6:5
New International Version

“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 others."

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Don't forget women are supposed to stay silent. So she shut her fucking mouth.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 minutes ago

This lady was yelling her opinions to a captive audience

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I remember a sermon about that from my catholic upbringing. I remeber very few thing from my childhood, but that stuck with me. I think because there we were in church being seen by others and being told we should be at home. The logical gymnastics of these people are impressive in a way.

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago

In all fairness the verse doesn't mean "don't go to church." It's talking about people who worship in public for the sake of being seen. Like this woman or people who only go to church so they can say they went and keep up appearances in the community. There are plenty of verses that require mental gymnastics and this isn't really one of them.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 27 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If someone did this on my flight I'd demand to be let off. Any religious fundamentalist making a public spectacle to a captive audience should set alarm bells ringing. There's nothing that woman wouldn't do if she's willing to do that and feel she's perfectly justified.

Can you imagine if a person of Islamic faith stood up before a flight and started preaching from the Quran? You'd have SWAT on that plane before they finished "Praise be to Allah!"

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I would be initially quietly demanding they duct tape her to a seat, as they are known to do. Its a long flight, I ain't putting up with this

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 minutes ago

Curious how the ai fucked up that up

[–] msfroh@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 hours ago

While the headline makes it sound like three different airlines banned her, this is actually just one company, since Alaska already owned Horizon, and then Alaska and Hawaiian merged last year.

Incidentally, as a gold member of that of that company's loyalty program, this news makes me even happier that Alaska is my go-to airline.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 77 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Public prayer is pure egoism. “Look how holy I am!”

Pretty sure her book doesn’t approve of fakers who pray loudly in public as a way to get attention.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Matthew 6:1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven."

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Literally was about to bring this up. The public proselytizers are explicitly anti-christian and Antichrist.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 2 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

And they can't use the old testament excuse for not following it. It's in The Gospel for crying out loud.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

Yes for all the different problems with Mahatma Gandhi. He pegged their type easily and early.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 31 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Her book is The Art of the Deal

I don't think people like this are exactly big readers....

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 35 points 6 hours ago

Great, now she’ll go on Fox News, get a job there. In a couple of months she’ll be running the department of “war” or some shit.

To her, this is the best thing that could have happened. People with a persecution complex, will do whatever is necessary to get persecuted.

[–] Seppo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

She should probably be locked in an insane asylum.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The severely mentally ill have it hard enough.

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 10 points 5 hours ago

reminder that evangelicals are why trump got elected. They deserve your scorn and ridicule

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

So, I've seen multiple articles on this describing it as a national trend. And now I'm reading that it's literally just one insane rich white lady.

I was also reading that nobody could do anything about this person. But, apparently, private airlines can simply refuse her service.

Cool.

She documented the removal in a series of videos she posted on social media, one of which had racked up 3 million views on Instagram by Friday afternoon.

I guess it's nice that we no longer live in a world where that translates to instant free money directly from the social media companies themselves.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

insane rich white

She has instant free money already. This was never about money. This was about making her feel good for pretending hard enough in front of others.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

And stir up the idea that there's "anti-christian bias".

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 7 hours ago

Let me guess, she's going to set up (or have set up for her) a GoFundMe where people who would never have spent the money to travel to where she is to listen to her speak are going to spend more money to donate to her "cause".

I generally opt for "live and let live" with Christians, but it's very hard not to draw the line with the ones who will harass you if you do not believe the same way as they do. However, I do think they also make their own look bad. I have a friend who I consider to be a "true Christian." His take on people like her is that when they spend so much effort to "show" you that they're a good Christian, they're most likely doing it to divert your attention from something else. This guy walks the walk, and he can talk it, but he prefers to show by example, not by telling you how to live your life. He figures the ones that can be saved will follow of their own accord. He knows I'm an Atheist. He's never tried to sell me on religion. I'm not saying people like him are the majority or even all that common. I'm just saying they do exist. I'm also saying that I don't think most Christians aim to get on that level. I think they're more like charlatans who know their religion is a scam, and they want to grift you over it.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago