r/cringereels • u/Ava_Rud • 14h ago

Self proclaimed evangelist gets kicked off of plane for annoying everyone, records her “persecution”

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u/Witty-Objective3431 13h ago

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. The bible says that the children of god will be persecuted for their faith because they have been set a part and chosen by god. The persecution, the "spiritual warfare", only reinforces how special they are supposed to be. It only deepens the hold of the religion. It is a cycle that only makes them louder and more obnoxious the more everyone else complains. There is nothing quite like the christian ego.

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u/3BlindMice1 12h ago

It also isolates them further from society as a whole; they're actively taking part in their disenfranchisement from public discourse, increasing their reliance on the cult they're a member of. It's a stone that hits many birds

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u/Faeruhn 9h ago

I mean, this is literally the entire reason that the 'door knocker' religions (Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses) send out specifically their young people and recent converts to do it, and only after they have told/taught them a specific way to go about it (a way that is guaranteed to make people annoyed with them).

It is entirely about deepening their hold on the young and/or converted and has nothing to do with trying to "spread the word" or even about looking for new converts.

"Oh you poor boy, look at how the world spurned you when you were just trying to do a 'good thing', but We love and accept you."