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02/07/2004 Archived Entry: "Greetings, captive audience..."
Greetings, captive audience...
I would have found this creepy bastard after the flight and given him a piece of my mind.
God, apparently, is his co-pilot.An American Airlines pilot flying passengers to New York asked Christians on board to identify themselves and suggested the non-Christians discuss the faith with them, a spokesman for the airline said Saturday.
Flight 34 was headed from Los Angeles to John F. Kennedy Airport on Friday afternoon, said spokesman Tim Wagner. The pilot, whose identity was not released, had been making flight announcements and then asked that the Christians on board raise their hands, Wagner said.
The pilot told the airline that he then suggested the other passengers use the flight time to talk to the identified Christians about their faith, Wagner said.
Replies: 11 people speak up
I have written AA about this and asked them how they plan to deal with this. Either AA want to be the Christian airline or they will act as a responsible American business and hang this son-of-a-bitch by his balls.
Posted by Joel @ 02/07/2004 05:02 PM NY
This is just absolutely wrong. This is why I don't trust Christians. I don't have anything against Jesus or God, but I do not like people who impose their beliefs on others.
You may argue that I'm imposing my beliefs right now, but you're not in a situation where you can't get away. All you need to do is scroll away from this post or hit the back button.
The truth is coming...
Posted by Coujeaux @ 02/07/2004 05:03 PM NY
So, was this clown trying to intimidate non-christians, as in "I'm piloting this plane and, who knows, it could just "fall from the sky" if you don't accept my perverse ideas about God"??
Posted by Thurber Hamm @ 02/07/2004 05:26 PM NY
This clown reminds me of a Jamaican woman who rides the NYC subways (mostly the "R" train from Forest Hills - a predominantly Jewish neighborhood) who reads the Bible and gives sermons at the top of her lungs. Everyone is a captive audience and we're all too polite to tell her to shut the fuck up. I feel bad for the Jews, Hindus, and Moslems who have to listen to this obnoxious Christian shit. My wife, a Buddhist, finds this all very amusing. I'm embarrassed as hell.
But in all fairness to Catholics, Christian head cases are usually Protestants. Urbi et orbi, baby!
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 02/07/2004 05:29 PM NY
If I had been on that flight, I would have wondered if the pilot was going to commit suicide by downing the plane. I would have been trying to enlist the stewards and to contact FCC emergency number with a cellphone.
The evangelical Right Christians (premillenial versions) that believe in the Rapture, where devout Christians will be removed to Heaven on Jesus' second coming, just love to talk about planes falling out of the sky when their pilots are raptured. Heard this on the radio today. Tim LaHaye sold a bazillion books on this theme of apocalypse (with planes) in his "Left Behind" series, which is being made into movies and radio serials as well.
You just don't say anything unprofessional while piloting an airplane nowadays. That means the comments from the cockpit ought to be, "we are at X thousand feet over city or state Y, no turbulence expected, arrival at approximately Z o'clock". That's it. I hope he gets grounded.
Posted by Nancy P. @ 02/07/2004 07:11 PM NY
Y'know, Jesus doesn't really bother me. It's his fan club that pisses me off.
Posted by The Tater @ 02/07/2004 08:10 PM NY
This pilot would make me think we had just been hijacked or lost a wing. Let him preach at people from some soapbox or pulpit.
BTW, the phones on the back of seats in a a plane actually go through a satellite relay. Cellphone users can't get a good signal above 10,000 feet (aka two miles)the distance most cell towers can transmit. What altitude were the planes on 9/11 at when the infamous cellphone calls came in? Oh, wait, we don't have an independent 9/11 commission to answer that question...
Posted by Old Fashioned Patriot @ 02/07/2004 09:21 PM NY
... right. Which means the PA flight that crashed may have been to high to complete a cell call. "Let's roll".
Posted by gammarock @ 02/07/2004 11:29 PM NY
Tinfoil hat alert!!!
Posted by Stentor @ 02/08/2004 05:57 AM NY
I suppose the approach is better than bombing them and converting them to Christianity, but the mindset it the same. Obnoxious.
Posted by andante @ 02/08/2004 09:35 AM NY
So, I wonder, is this guy, like, uh, armed?
Posted by richard @ 02/09/2004 09:13 PM NY
