Christian preachers are turning airplanes into unwanted worship services
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.
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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.
Shout out to the last two sentences for bringing us all back down to earth 😂.
You forgot to mention that everyone clapped though
We all know this story is real to at least one person out there, at least the church molesting part
I wonder what would happen if a Muslim tried to do this
four country idiots will yell “let’s roll” and pretend they are heroes. then get invited to the white house for mcdonalds.
They'd land the plane at the closest airport, bring in the swat team and arrest them violently.
Only if they're lucky
Yeah, if some brown dude gets up on an airplane and starts shouting out prayers to Allah, he'd be attacked immediately. I see no reason to respond differently just because it's a white woman and Jesus.
I’m pretty sure duct tape would be involved.
Air Marshal would rise up and put several shoots at center mass.
This is a reminder to loudly play Disney music from your phone before you commit a felony so you at least aren't generating content for them.
It’s why I’m always ready to sing, A Whole New World. You would be amazed that statistically there’s always someone willing to sing out the Princesses half of the song lol.
The Beatles would work too. Family Guy even did a bit on how expensive it is to licence a song.
Maybe Metallica. Lars Ulrich will go crazy.
really good idea to start blasting music. Uh, maybe not Disney, though.
The DOOM soundtrack would be more appropriate, but Disney music stops them from being able to monetize it.
Ooooohhhhh, understood. Maybe an audiobook of The Lord of the Rings? 😂 or... What about that sweet South Asia version of Whole New World? Would that work?
No, you want Disney specifically because you want their high-powered attack-dog lawyers to work in your favor.
Oooh, maybe Nintendo music would work as well!
now youre getting it! i dont know how litigious they are about their music, but if you can slap a mario cap on the preacher or something, we're golden
Nine Inch Nails would be perfect.
I WANNA FUCK YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL!!!!
Who the fuck do they think is going to convert by being forcibly subjected to that? On the contrary. I would imagine that they're more likely to cause other Christians to have second thoughts.
Most evangelism isn't actually to convert people. It's to other them to the one evangelizing. The evangelists return to their group moaning about how no one will listen and they bond over their good deed of trying to spread "truth" with the rest in their circle and it makes them feel even more like they're a part of a group.
It's all performative cult behavior
It's absolutely this. It makes it easy to play the victim which they love doing.
Forcibly subjected got us to where we are today. It works.
It’s less about converting others and more about imposing their religion on to others to assert power
100% if someone got up preaching Islam or Satan, they'd get kicked off and put on the no fly list.
"My fellow passengers, let's all say a brief prayer to the elemental force of air, which gives us lift."
Far more relevant than a shepherd from ancient Judea. WTF does a sheep boy know about airplanes?
Classic case of "Fascism? Sorry, nothing we can do."
No. Someone is getting removed from that plane. I am not paying for that. These airlines need to grow some fucking balls already.
United will pull a doctor out while he's screaming and passing out but they just can't seem to anything about a blonde woman yelling about Jesus
I know it wasn't united in this article but still
If it's southwest they are probably paying these sociopaths on their speed run to being one of the most hated corps in ameirca
I wasn't even aware they still existed.
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.
It doesn't matter. A steward can ask you to return to your seat and be quiet and doesn't have to give a single reason. And if you don't comply they can have the plane land immediately to get you removed just because you didn't follow their orders. And when asked, they can just say that the passenger's behavior was distracting them from their safety related duty
The real issue here is that the stewards and/or airline management are apparently complicit.
It absolutely crosses a line. What they're preaching isn't even relevant (though it obviously makes it worse). Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.
Doesn't even need to be a religion. Someone could stand up and start spitting out legit facts about climate change and I'd still tell them to shut the fuck up. Like, "yeah we know, it fucking sucks. But we're on an airplane so how about shut the fuck up?"
This is what should happen.
And they should be grateful the attendant is kind enough to land the plane before they get kicked out
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.
Yet they treat the guy with "bombing kids isn't self-defense" shirt like a terrorist but let this bullshit literally fly
Stand up and recite Matthew 6:5.
This shit never works, don't bother
It's the bible, so I'm sure it's contradicted multiple times.
Women are allowed to preach now? Don't they read their book?
What's sad is this just sounds like "Be modest, humble, and self-respectful, ladies."
But you know some groups would be like "NO FANCY CLOTHES OR BRAIDED HAIR! Especially women should only wear burlap sacks and maybe shoes as a treat! See? Book says so."
Lol also love how we have a verse basically describing the televangelist uniform. "Don't be like that. Nobody likes that. It's obnoxious." 😂
Note that, according to most scholars, Timothy is one of the Pauline epistles that Paul definitely didn't write.
There was a battle in the original church about that. There were early Christian congregations where women preached, and some where women were leaders. That got suppressed. There were also congregations where there was syncretism between Platonist and Jewish beliefs, and gnostic beliefs were also widespread (there was a gnostic minority among Jews of that era, and that carried on into Christianity). That got suppressed a bit later.
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.
It depends on the sect.
The Church of Christ doesn't allow us to have any positions within the church and it outright states in multiple instances that we are to be subservient to the men in our lives.
Heckle them loudly. If talking loudly isn't a bootable offense, making fun of the preacher and their lack of ability to entertain or hold an audience without force is a good starting point. Undercut their message by showing the lack of charity in their actions and what a good person would do: be respectful of others.
Just start loudly playing music over your phone speaker and encourage those around you to do the same
Apparently Whitney needs a reminder:
1 Timothy 2:11-12
Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
I like Matthew 6:5
“And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
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.
Heckling obnoxious evangelists was one of my fave things to do in college. I'd always ask questions that they couldn't really answer and they'd always be like "it's part of God's plan" and I would ask them how they know God's plan and they'd get even more upset.
If you're gonna shove your beliefs down my throat, don't get uppity when I asks question lmao
You start with "everyone's entitled to their beliefs," they harm you per their beliefs, and then you want to draw a line? Too late, you already gave them the blank check.
Christianity deserves pushback, not respect. It is a death cult. They don't respect you, they think you belong to their god. They will be happy when you die, pretending you are rewarded in heaven or punished in hell. There is no such thing as a christ, we are not born with sin, we do not require divine salvation (which comes at the price of complete subjugation).
Can we stop letting them kill us? People should be held accountable for their choices, including the choice to accept and repeat baseless claims. As a species, we need to mature out of superstition before it kills us.
The freedom to believe something ≠ the freedom to do whatever you like based on that belief.
But they believe they should do those things. Beliefs drive our actions. We should correct them every chance we get.
You: "Believe what you want." Them: "OK, I believe my god wants to me to preach to you." You: "Stop that." Them: "No, my god demands it."
Now what?
And if they believe their (utterly unproven) god wants them to restrict healthcare? Wants them to avoid vaccines? Commit genocide, take slaves, fly planes into buildings?
Innocent people are dying for the selfish beliefs of others.
I don't disagree with your point, i am saying my belief is that they others are free to believe but not free to do whatever they want. There are laws for the things we can do and not do. We have the right (in the free world) to think what we want, in parts of the free world we are free to love who we want. Believe is something internal, like a thought or an opinion. I am not saying you should not use your freedom to persuade these people into having better beliefs, please go for it. But imo restricting what people are allowed to believe is as wrong as restricting someone from having certain opinions. But them having the freedom to have these believes does not mean we should just do nothing and sit idle. Please note that i am making a clear distinction between the freedom inside oneself (opinions, thoughts, beliefs) and acting on them. You are not and should not be allowed to do or say anything based on those internal things. If i believe my neighbour is an asshole, i am not and should not suddenly allowed to insult him.
Unfortunately, yes. I agree on the problem.
I don't see the difference. They believe they are obligated to do those things, so they do those things.
Nobody can stop anybody from thinking their thoughts. My point is we should oppose false beliefs before they turn into harmful actions.
What is the difference? They believe that's how they should act, so that's how they act.
Constructive criticism can change behaviors for the better, if everyone is listening to reason. Your neighbor shouldn't be an asshole, that hurts everybody.
Thank you. It is why I am a "militant" antitheist. I think that compromising with delusion gets innocent people killed needlessly.
Hence my comment. I dont think you want to see the difference. As long you act through legal action, I encourage you to follow your antitheist goals. Giving constructive criticism instead of insult to an asshole neighbour for example. The good people should, imo, take the high road as much as possible.
Yeah, "shut up and sit down" would be my vociferous response. Assholes.
One time on the NYC subway someone started preaching. Then a middle aged business man started counter-yelling about evolution and natural science. Then a third person started yelling that they all need to shut up.
It was kind of funny to watch, but also a 20 minute train ride with multiple stops is much lower stakes than a flight.
This happened all the time on the New York Subway when I lived there 20+ years ago. But there you were usually only 2-5 minutes away from the next station and you had the ability to go to a different car, so most people just ignored them. You’re not going to find many commercial flights that are less than an hour gate to gate, though, and frequently many hours in duration.
I’m no believer but I think these people should hear the words of the Bible.
Matthew 6:4-6
They always counter with "that's just prayer, not spreading the word" and point at Matthew 28:19-20
Almost as if the entire Bible is a contradictory amalgamation of patriarchical bullshit.
I believe it is garbage but this is pretty logically consistent.
Prayer is prayer and should be done in private. Spreading Christianity is different and should be done everywhere.
They are two separate things.
Now is it all made up bull crap? Yes. Contradictions everywhere? Yes. But this isn't one of them
I would bet my next paycheck that this person included (annoyingly boisterous) prayer in their "spreading of the word." They always do and it's disingenuous to pretend they don't. You're being far too charitable to people who do not deserve it.
And we all know that pointing out a Christian's hypocrisy is all it takes to get them to change their views.
Can you imagine if a Muslim did this?
Yes, and whatever they were wearing would become contraband. Sorry sir you'll have to remove and change your shirt, blue shirts are not permitted by TSA. BUT YOUR SHIRT IS BLUE!?! No sir my shirt is TSA.
Especially if they were preaching in Arabic!
Or any language. If a Muslim spoke german it would have "sounded arabic" to these people.
To those people, it could be a tan Asian speaking Filipino and they'd think it was "Mexican."
I am that autistic person who would be quite happy to yell shutup over and over until she got the point.
I would start accusing her of all sorts of horrible things.
"Nobody is this aggressively preachy unless they're trying to deflect from something!"
"What are you trying to hide!"
"Let's get the cops to look at your hard drive!"
"I wonder if you're in the Epstein files!"
Normally I don't casually accuse people of pedophilia. But frankly, among this obnoxious of a Christian, the odds really aren't that bad.
I'd do the same thing to a plane preacher as I do to street preachers (which are quite common at large events in my city).
Get up in their face, throw some devil horns, and start shouting, " Haiiiiiiiiil Satan! Come on my brethren, haaaaaaaail Satan!"
If they continue, I repeat. Every fucking time some other randos start shouting hail Satan too and the preacher eventually moves on.
Gonna trap me with your insane shit? Well, by all means then, you get to deal with my bottled up insane shit.
I would 100% join in on that chant.
My hero!
Outside of the Sentinelese, everyone on the planet has heard of Jesus Fucking Christ. If anyone wanted to convert already then they would have by now. These performative assholes need to shut the fuck up already and leave people in peace.
Every few years some Christian tries to genocide the Sentinelese too
They're fully aware the diseases they carry could wipe out the Sentinelese, and are fine with it. Terrible people
But see, its okay, because they are blessed by jeebus and jeebus protects them immediately gets filled with arrows
Luckily the Sentinelese are proactive and just pepper them with arrows before they can do any harm.
I've basically said that to someone preaching on public transport. "This is America, we've all heard of Jesus"
So we're happy to have extremists stand up and spout religious nonsense as long as they're white Christians speaking English. Neat!
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.
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.
What’s to stop someone else from yes-and-ing the preacher, but suggesting Flying Spaghetti Monster instead? Also, my autocorrect just capitalized “flying spaghetti monster”, which is pretty neat.
Christians are so goddamned annoying.
Ohhh I've seen this in action before on the public bus. The response is usually "SHUT YO ASS UP, NO ONE IS TRYING TO HEAR THAT"
I just start singing gospel tunes.
Try doing this with the Quran or Satanism on a domestic flight and see how long it takes them to squak 7700 and eject you at the nearest federal penitentiary.
Getting punched out by an angry passenger would be gold for these people. Christians have this weird and totally unearned persecution complex (2026 suggests it has all been projection all along) that a preacher getting punched would totally feed into.
All the more if the Airline actually did something.
Someone should give them exactly what they want
100%. We start with what we can sense. God cannot be sensed. So why assume he exists at all? They're telling us lies and getting pissy when we try to defend the truth our lives depend on.
Christians persecute others. Others must defend themselves or die. The public narrative is backwards, some beliefs should be dismantled instead of protected.
I wonder what would happen to a preacher, who say was, oh I dunno, Muslim. I wonder how they would be greeted when they land. I wonder...
Evangelists do it on public transport all the time where I live.
IMHO they should be removed and banned from the service.
someone put the radical religious fundamentalists endangering others on a plane on the no fly list and charged them with federal crimes right?
Thank fuck I don't live in the US.
Just keep your head on a swivel because if there's one thing US does better than anyone else it's export dogshit culture.
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
This will cause more people to become atheists, it’s because too many Christians don’t leave people alone
Use a Taser on the pieces of shit Jesus would be proud
Pilot should find turbulence everytime praise is called for.
On an airplane? Unlikely to happen.
Doesn't electricity work in the air?
Its that TSA won't let passengers carry a taser on to an airplane. They don't even let you carry on mace.
How about brass knuckles to her dumb mentally ill face?
"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 don't think it quite warrants a mid flight removal, but you certainly shouldn't be allowed to fly again and you should be removed if the plane is on the ground and it won't cause a delay.
Enjoy the boat/train ride back, you'll have a captive audience much longer.
If I weren't trans I'd tell someone to shut up if they pulled that crap while I was a passenger
If they can scream about hell and damnation I can yell about FIRE! FIRE! and
damnationbrimstone. Crack down on this airlines or nobody is gonna have a good flight.If throwing my drink at them didn't shut them up, I'd choke them out
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.
Why not do this in church?
Because nobody goes to church anymore lmao
Nah! Too many loud christians there!
Nah it's still too many people going to church.
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.
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.
We've canonically got four different versions of Jesus to choose from, so you're going to need to be more precise.
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.
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.
That's the get-out clause...
*pastime
There was no such thing as Orthodox Judaism in Galilee in Roman times. Most of Orthodoxy was invented in Poland, Lithuania and surrounding areas in the late 18th century as a reactionary revitalization movement in opposition to humanist and democratic ideas. Modern Orthodox Jews are no more like ancient Jews than US Southern evangelical glossolalist snake-jugglers are like the first generation of Christians. People who present themselves as following ancient practice almost never do. Instead, they follow a simplistic caricature and fill in the gaps by making a lot of shit up. This is not unique to the Haredim. It happens all over the world. It's happening now in India as the BJP dumbs down the vast diversity of Hindu beliefs and harnesses it in service of a brutalist nationalism.
There were entirely different factions in Galilee in the year dot: Pharisees, Saducees, Essenes, among others. The big sources of contention among them included how to deal with Hellenic ideas such as Platonism (the Herods were pro-Hellenic), whether to oppose or accommodate the Roman occupation, and some dirty politics about which individuals and groups should lead the Jewish people. The Tanakh was also being formalized around that time, isolated hermit communities existed, and gnosticism (small G) was growing in influence. It was only in around 70 AD that the Temple was destroyed. Ritual practice changed considerably after that.
Your central point holds, though: modern Christianity would not be recognizable to Jesus. There has been two millennia of accretion of beliefs, evolution of practice, schisms, and a large measure of retcon. We know that Jesus's brother James held the view that Christianity was for Jews only. That might mean that Jesus would have also held that view. Hard to say. We only know that Paul won that argument and the early church let the goyim in. Maybe if Christianity had stayed within the Jewish community, it would have died out and we wouldn't be having this conversation now.
I meant small “o” orthodoxy, meaning he was a hard-liner even for his time. Dude rebuked Moses over divorce.
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).
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So I can start a satanic or Muslim service on a plane and that will be ok too, right?
well if Jesus really died for their sins you can throw them problem-free out of a window.
I'd just start looking up rape statistics about priests and start screaming them out. Captive audience goes both ways and the staff will force both to shut the fuck up I imagine if it devolves into a screaming match.
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.
nice that this is the post directly under this in my feed:
https://thelemmy.club/post/53478859
I can have a TED talk at the same time, right? I'll talk about what music I like, with lots of examples.
Get a megaphone and spend the entire flight talking about local governance in the destination's region.
A passenger next to them could always ring the call button and say "this (wo)man just grabbed my nutsack."
Wololo fail
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...
Time to poke the nearest sleeping baby. Don't harm them, just wake them so they will wail. Then yell at the preacher for waking the baby, to direct the mother's wrath and the entire plane's enmity at them, while the wails drown out the sermon.
Feel free to include references to the many harms done by Christian leaders to children, from the mass graves found at Catholic Indian Boarding Schools and Irish mother and baby homes to the massive and ongoing conspiracies in many different denominations, including the Evangelicals, to molest and rape children that goes even beyond the worst excesses of the Epstein files.
There is this thing, it's called Active Noise Canceling or ANC. You can throw a rock in any direction and hit a pair of earbuds or over the ear headphones that have it and there are a ton of sub $50 options. Or for $25 you can pick up a pretty decent pair of IEMs that will cut out the outside world. Play some music, listen to an audio book, or with the ANC just leave them in.
Nothing burns a self righteous twat quite like ignoring them does.
ANC does not work well for non-predictive noise. It helps drown out background noise like engines and general "hub-bub," but for someone speaking to a quiet audience it will just lower the overall volume, not cancel it out. But, like you said, you can turn on music or an audio book to help ignore them, though.
EDIT for the people downvoting me because they think they know how ANC works:
https://gentlehush.com/noise-canceling-headphones-voices/
https://www.headphonexperts.com/can-active-noise-cancellation-block-talking/
https://topheadphonereviews.com/anc-human-voices-speech-reduction/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sony/comments/y75d4n/should_i_be_able_to_hear_people_talking_with_anc/
In my experience when I have the ANC turned all the way up I can't hear shit. I have found a lot of it also hinges on the ear tips for buds but my over the ears block out the world. As with everything though users experience may vary.
Good ANC cancels everything. It’s active for a reason.
https://www.headphonexperts.com/can-active-noise-cancellation-block-talking/
https://gentlehush.com/noise-canceling-headphones-voices/
I spent $300 on the blackshark gaming headset. One of the best and most comfortable headsets I've ever owned. And it has anc toggle.
I still wouldn't want to miss the opportunity though to tell one of these people to fuck off
What if one gets enjoyment from mocking them?
Typically mocking them just feeds the beast.
Two people screaming at each other on a plane is just one extra person for everyone else to hate
I imagine I will be classes as belligerent when I choke the fucker out.
Any chance they could be charged under hostage takers?
Seriously I haven't flown in years and doubt I will in the foreseeable future.
But omg I would be yelling every swearword I could think of to interrupt them
according to UK rulings of late, this is probably terrorism
Oh hell no
I would get violent
If some stupid idiot started doing this, I'd ask politely a few times.
Then, they would be seated, unconscious or otherwise.
Well, they have more strong-arm tactics when this desperate grassroots stuff fails. The Seven Mountain Mandates nutcases have Mike Johnson and Donvict and the Supreme Court to inflict their little book club on millions of uninterested Americans - nearly 1 in 3 apparently have little interest.
The unaffiliated are one of the largest minority demographics and somehow, we get no one pandering to us. We hover around 28-31%, and it's barely commented on.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religious-landscape-study-religious-identity/
Jwst add it to the reasons flying now-a-days sucks.
It's hard to think of an industry that is more optimized towards the discomfort of its clientele than the airline industry. In terms of the evangelist sitting next to you, that's a symptom of a problem exacerbated by the ought-to-be-illegal practice of overbooking flights to ensure every seat is filled, thereby leaving no recourse for a flight attendant who may want to have the aircraft equivalent of having an elementary school student stand in the corner.
There needs to be some maneuvering room to separate belligerent passengers, though you wouldn't want to "reward" them by giving them extra space as a buffer zone. Or if this is inevitable, something would need to be done to make the time-out corner more uncomfortable than regular seating. But I have confidence they could come up with something? This is an area of expertise for airlines.
And no one jumped on hear out of fear she wants everyone to transfer directly to Jesus? Lucky girl.
You can walk away from them on a street, but on an airplane, you're stuck with an annoying preacher for hours
A literal captive audience. That’s pretty much the point I think: you can't get away from them. They are forcing themselves on you without your consent. Its somewhat analogous to rape. Nowhere near as disgusting, but its on the same tree.
Till I tell the flight attendant, if they don't stop them preaching, I'm gonna open the door and leave this plane
Thank God for noise cancelling headphones.
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
i would stab a cunt with my pinkie.
Christianity is terror, happy to fuck up a terrorist
If they're playing a guitar, detune them! Preferably put more tension on them, as it makes harder to retune and you also can break their strings.
Oh God, I wish. I can tear apart their bullshit to the point if I decide to play with one of the asshats trying to scream at people on a street corner or school they generally get pissy and pack up and leave.
Having this smug bitch stuck on a plane while I mock her to tears would be glorious. It's sad that humans get so much enjoyment out of tearing apart other humans we deem to be 'bad', but... well, we do. She must believe it's because that's how God wants it, so in her case who am I to resist the temptation? ^^
I wonder what would happen if someone got uncomfortably close to the preaching person and began air humping them until they stopped?
Probably sexual assault/harassment charges upon landing
How to go from "morally right" to "in the wrong" 101:
And now i shall reenact a scene from the movie ’there will be blood’
Is it possible to bring an airhorn on to a carry on?
I figure anything pressurized is a no-go.
Edit: they make electronic versions, not sure how they hold up, but a loud chirpy siren would work too, especially if you're in the seat next to them.
Just start screaming until they stop. No need for accessories.
Saw this on bluesky, same president here as before, ask the flight attendant to tell her to shut the fuck up. Dw they have duck tape for this very reason
I am not religious. I have many many many tisms that were never treated because I did not know. It would not go well for that lady or me as I am sure I would be tossed off the plane(edit: for talking about what would be considered sensitive, not a violent type).
I wish someone with the skill and strength to grab her head and smash her nose-first into their well-launched knee then whacked her head repeatedly into a bulkhead til she shuts the fuck up.
Wouldn't that be fun to watch?
My fantasies of violence are inversely proportional to my ability to fulfill them.
If I lift my arm above my shoulder I'd probably have a heart attack.
I do not condone violence against brainwashed dipshits also known as christians. That’s why my comment ends here.
I would absolutely fucking delight in describing exactly how I’d like to use said preacher as a fucktoy object in graphic and lurid detail. And I’m not even gay or bi - I just have an overactive imagination, and am a proud member of the ENM/kink community.
As long as I do it right in front of his face at an uncomfortably close distance that clearly violates his personal space, but am not contacting him (and it would 100% be a guy) in any way I’m just preaching the homosexual agenda, right?
I mean, I'm kinda for it? If anything, this will turn people away from religion, so in that sense they're doing us all a favor
I don't see what the fuss is about. It's nothing I and my trusted noise cancelling headphones can't handle.
Say that to the people within a few rows of the passenger. Also, while the headphones certainly muffle the noise, they aren't a COMPLETE cancelation. Also also, what if the batteries run out?
Maybe I was a bit flippant in my reply. If I was presented with this situation for real, I'm pretty sure I would find it annoying on principle. When running into such people in public spaces, one has the option to walk away. In public transport, especially long haul... not so much.
On the other hand, I did fly with crying kids and noisy adults in close proximity, and the headphones worked a treat. With music added, of course.
That's great for you. Quality noise canceling headphones are expensive. Not everyone has them, or travels with them.
Isn't it interesting how this person's comment is just "me me me" and "I I I"?
I just thought that was interesting.
This just isn't a problem because this person has noise cancelling headphones and they just can't understand what the big deal is.
"It doesn't affect me personally so..."
I'll just turn off my hearing aids, but the hearing without noise canceling headphones deserve a peaceful flight
Keep your religion between you and your God.
Totally agree.
Like I said elsewhere, my reaction was too flippant, and that's on me. I tend to ignore the preachy types wherever I run into them, and headphones are my golden standard on flights..