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/TraditionPlenty6473 12h ago

I live in the Bible Belt of the US. If you recorded most of everyone that lives here it’d be very boring and normal. I never see this stuff happening. I’d say real life it’s very rare to see this in the wild. Most people probably like you.

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u/Shane-Dad-underfire 7h ago

It's not when they are in their communities they act like this, it's when they take their show on the road.

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u/No_Principle9191 5h ago

Yeah this is just main character persecution syndrome. Same as the idiots that stand on a street corner and “preach”.

I have my gripes with Christianity and I think a lot of Christians are hypocrites - but people like this aren’t normal by any measure.

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u/TraditionPlenty6473 12h ago

And it’s called the Bible Belt because there are a lot of churches around. Most people that are religious go to church like once a month if that. More of a club to socialize at than being radically into jesus.

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u/GrumblingAndRumbling 10h ago

Most exciting things in the Bible Belt are usually utterly devastating local tragedies usually involving a young adult male or a “family man”. The public proselytizing is more a NYC subway thing.

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u/finditplz1 10h ago

I don’t know if that’s true. Most churchgoing people go every week. And some multiple times a week if that’s what their denomination does.

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u/TraditionPlenty6473 9h ago

True. I feel like the majority of Christians don’t go to church that often though. Just my personal experience growing up around it. Not real data though.

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u/erik_wilder 12h ago edited 11h ago

I live in a small town of like 6000 and we have 3 4 churches.

What's the density of churches around there?

(Genuinely just curious)

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u/Dlan08 12h ago

Dude I live in Missouri. There are 5 or 6 protestant churches around my subdivision. (About 6 city blocks) And a massive Catholic school/church. And then also a lds church also.

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u/OkWolf601 10h ago

I was raised in Buffalo, NY and there are easily over 100 churches in the western NY region. Same deal where there are several in each subdivision of each city/town. I believe the metro area has approximately 1.5 million people for reference

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u/TraditionPlenty6473 10h ago

I live in Middle Tennessee...population like 1.3million. I’m in Nashville. It’s about 725k population. I couldn’t even count the churches. There’s a lot but even so I don’t see a large portion being radically in your face about it. I’m from East Tennessee originally… very rural. But even so, my personal experience most people don’t ambush you to talk about religion. When they are nuts about it they get recorded and put on the internet.

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u/TraditionPlenty6473 10h ago

To clarify… Nashville is part of what we call middle Tennessee. Lots of smaller cities. Nashville is just the focal point of middle Tennessee. By focal I mean like a pillar for direction. “ you going towards Nashville? No we are heading south of Nashville”

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u/Cautious-Number2318 11h ago

LOL - I lived in Iowa where some of the smaller towns (100 people to 2K) had 2-4 churches and just as many bars.

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u/Sea_Lawfulness_9770 10h ago

According to Google there are 12 churches in my town of 1500 in central Texas

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u/commie-scarecrow 5h ago

I've lived in the south all my life but the only time I've ever seen it is once in Florida at the Artemis one launch. Had a nutter end of the world Jesus coming guy lecturing folks that police eventually took away. I think everyone was more sad that he was anti science than mad though.

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u/Frankie-Paul 12h ago

Still way much more than it should be.

Religion, especially Christianity, is still a stain on modern America, with millions still gripped by primitive ideas not based on an ounce of fact. 

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u/sevenw0rds 11h ago edited 10h ago

Yup, it's fiction all around with a healthy dash of undiagnosed mental illness.

EDIT: Downvoters, I'm sorry about your mental health struggles.

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u/Frankie-Paul 10h ago

Well, unfortunately for many that comes later. They don't start out that way.

Thankfully, wonderful charities like Recovering From Religion exist to help people make the transition away from magic thinking. 

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u/Repulsive_Heron_5571 11h ago

I live in the south too. Ive had to put a sign on my front door to keep assholes like this from coming to my door on average once a week to try to shove their views down my throat.

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u/Swimming_Bonus_8892 11h ago

I’m from so far south that Arkansas is considered south Antarctica and while I agree with your statement in part, when we get out of the Bible Belt is when it starts to show.

When you are surrounded by fundamentalist Christians there’s no reason to act like that because everyone believes the same way you do but I have traveled all over the world extensively and this type of stuff happens with “Bible Belt Christian’s” a lot.

It’s on planes, it’s on trains, it’s I restaurants, I mean any time they don’t get their way, they are being challenged in any capacity THIS is the default response. Much like Zionists that when challenged on…anything scream “anti semitism” these types of fundamentalists go out of their way to not only paint a fake target on their back but will work really hard to make it about that in any and all situations.

It happens so much every year around this time Fox News is about to start its annual “war on Christmas” run.

At home base of coarse it seems normal but get 10 feet outside and you will see it happening…frequently. Peace.

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