Atheism

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.

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."

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!"

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.

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.

Whitney is another a la carte Christian grifter.

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."

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

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.

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.

Read "evangelist" as "disruptive passenger". This is "spiritual warfare" about as much as black trash bags are racism.

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

This will do wonders with their persecution complex. Still worth it though.

Alaska, Hawaiian, and Horizon are all affiliated, so essentially one company has said "not on our aircraft." Good for them.

I know I should not say this but she has such a punchable face. You can see the arrogance and smugness dripping from it.

Not really atheism-related. Most people on the plane are probably Christians too, just not assholes. She's trying to demonstrate she's in a persecuted group for her "Jesus is our savior" opinion but it could just as easily have been any other common, generally tolerated opinion like "you're using 'literally' wrong" or "butts are better than boobs".

God botherers are the worst humans.

If this had ben a Muslim standing up and preaching loudly on an airplane the MAGAts on the flight would have lost their minds.

Call out their heresy as loud as they shout it. Remind them that they’re acting this way because they were lied to so they would sell their soul.

Then put on a red hat and robe because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

I hope the passengers shown in her videos sue her for breach of privacy. Because you can very safely assume she did not get anyone's permission to be filmed and used for her personal and probably commercial gain.

Thank God.

Er... Wait

She has that influencer face on.

Nice, now she can pray herself to destination, surely a minor task for the creator of all things.

Amazing.

Funny how only after theres negative press they start to do something about it.

because they totally care about the passengers, and its totally not about wanting to be associated with the negative press coverage.

kicked off a San Diego-bound jet before it even took off