From: Jei (jei@cc.hut.fi)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 13:10:23 MST
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Jake Sapiens wrote:
>
> > href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/
> > 07/state2118EST0136.DTL">Pilot suggested passengers discuss Christianity
> > during LA-to-New York flight </a>
> I think the real problem lies in the fact that in this case there is a
> captive audience whose lives are literally in the hands of the pilot, who
> takes crass advantage of this situation to spout his religious program on
> them. If he were doing the same thing in the airport terminal instead of
> on the plane, it would be a much simpler issue for passengers to ignore him
> and issues of free speech would more understandably take precedence. I
> think that someone grown up in entirely different culture and religion
> would find this situation downright intimidating, where American
> non-Christians (Atheists, Jews, etc.) might just chalk it up as yet another
> asinine instance among many. If this pilot can't stop himself from this
> behavior, I think he should lose his job.
Quite so. Imagine if Moslems of Buddhists or priests of
any other religion started preaching in a similar way
trying to convert people. They would be shouted quiet
or thrown out of the plane.
Criticizing preaching about christianity is almost as anathema
as criticizing jews in america => earns you an immediate condemnation
of anti-semitism and followed by demands for apologies. - Jews can do
no wrong, and neither can the fundamentalist christians of America.
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