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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    2 months ago

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

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    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."

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      Yeah but it’s Matt. 5:10 that they’re all about, “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

      Except they’re not actually persecuted, they’re in a Christian-majority country ruled by an overtly Christian government, so they have to manufacture their own persecution in order to trick God into letting them into heaven.

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    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.

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      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."

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

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

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    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!”

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    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.

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      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.