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.

100% if someone got up preaching Islam or Satan, they'd get kicked off and put on the no fly list.

theres nothing they can do cause hes 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.

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"

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...

Women are allowed to preach now? Don't they read their book?

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.

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.

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.

This will cause more people to become atheists, it’s because too many Christians don’t leave people alone

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

So we're happy to have extremists stand up and spout religious nonsense as long as they're white Christians speaking English. Neat!

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.

Can you imagine if a Muslim did this?

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

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.

No. Someone is getting removed from that plane. I am not paying for that. These airlines need to grow some fucking balls already.

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.

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.

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.

I wonder what would happen if a Muslim tried to do this

Evangelists do it on public transport all the time where I live.

IMHO they should be removed and banned from the service.