From: Eva-Lise Carlstrom (evalise@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 13:42:29 MST
I think the pilot should lose his job, or at least be
well chastized. Subjecting a captive audience, there
for a practical and commercial purpose, to religious
proselytizing without due warning was incredibly rude,
inappropriate, and, in my opinion, memetically
abusive. As others have noted, the passengers did not
have the option to avoid the speech. Not only
non-Christian passengers, but those Christian
passengers who did not feel comfortable evangelizing,
were put in a very awkward position.
If an establishment advertises itself as religiously
oriented, such as by, say, being a church, or by
putting a cute little Jesus fish in their Yellow Pages
ad, then I have no problem with their religious
speech--I had warning and could choose to avoid their
place of business.
I was once on an Alaska Airlines flight and found a
Christian prayer included with my dinner, complete
with an invocation of "Our Lord Jesus". I felt
creeped out and unwelcome, based on their assumption
that I would be happy to participate in Christian
practice just because I was on their plane. I wrote a
letter of complaint to the airline. Please note that
I would not have objected had I ordered the kosher
meal (which I sometimes do) and found a Hebrew prayer.
I'm not Jewish, but it's a reasonable conclusion to
reach based on my ordering kosher.
The pilot can do what he likes on his own time, but I
don't want him telling me to seek Christ when I'm just
there to fly to Denver, thanks.
--Eva
> <a
>
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>
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