Haven't you ever seen any exorcism movies? Demons always react like that when the bible is read to them.

On the other hand I would cut the brits some slack, awful things happen on their trains.

 

OMG!

Of course, they were probably mud slime's.

 

When you read the first hand version of the events it appears that passengers were concerned about the mans erratic behaviour. A possible overreaction but he should have used his inside his head voice.

Reading aloud on public transport in the UK would indicate you are either A. a child B. Have Learning Difficulties or B. A Complete Nutter

 

Culture must be very different over there. Pretty sure that guy washes my windows at the stoplight on the way to work.

 

I'd cut the Brits some slack.

"The best way to avoid an emergency is to not be there when one happens."

Unless it's a familiar bible verse that most Christians would recognize, most other people couldn't tell if it was a Bible, a Koran (Quran), or some other religious text. All most Londoners know is that lately all sorts of weird and tragic crap has been happening in the name of god, committed by true believers of one stripe or another.

So when someone starts getting their religion on in an enclosed space, Brits can be forgiven for expecting a loud explosion to punctuate the reading at any moment.

I might have left the premises myself. As noted above, it wouldn't be the first time that bags, packages, and people have exploded on the London tube.

The reader may have been making a point, but I'd have him arrested for inciting a public disturbance. You want to get your religion on? Do it in a way that doesn't alarm people. All the attacks by Muslim extremists in London over the past 12 months have the public on edge, for understandable reasons.

Just MHO. YMMV.

 

So when someone starts getting their religion on in an enclosed space, Brits can be forgiven for expecting a loud explosion to punctuate the reading at any moment.

Anyone decides to start reading their holy book out loud, any holy book, in a confined space I'm stuck in, I'm going to be looking to move elsewhere. At the best, he's a rude and highly annoying person with no respect for other people's space, and at worst, he's a complete fruitcake, and there's no predicting how he'll decide to act out next. Just because his choice of reading matter is the Bible doesn't change that. You just never know how far someone will be prepared to go when that voice in his head tells him he needs to go out there and chastiseth those sinners. A fanatic is a fanatic, doesn't much matter what he's fanatic about. The guy just demonstrated he has completely mislaid his social filters somewhere; I would not be inclined to bet how many other brakes on his behavior may be malfunctioning. There's more than one nut wandering around the city muttering Bible verses who will then suddenly turn around and slam someone with a 2 x 4.

I wouldn't panic at all, but I'd sure as heck move to another car. A public conveyance is not a pulpit. You feel compelled to "witness" in public to complete strangers, do it on a street corner where people are free to listen to you or walk away.

Completely panicking and running over other people to get off the train would be seriously overreacting if he hasn't really gotten aggressively up into someone's face/acted like he was about to start swinging/pulled a knife, but giving him a very wide berth as you move to another car would be simply prudent.

 

Hmm idk but I am so grateful I was fortunate enough to be born here in The USA, for many reasons

 

You would be cool with some random dude with a rucksack reading the Koran in Arabic on your train?

 

Its because snowflakes have been taught to be terrified of anything that they don't agree with.

Its like the morons who were screaming and bawling when they found out that Hillary lost. They don't know how to react normally, so they vastly overreact.

 

I don't care what people are reading

 

Im currently reading Stateless Commerce by Barak Richman but I'm really sure that my fellow passengers don't want to hear about Orthodox Jews and informal networks.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674972179

 

"The Word of God is living and active, sharper than a 2 edged sword" Hebrews 4:12

I wouldn't have done that, but I do other lunatic things, which I have a thread about.

I would have stuck to handing out tracts or scripture booklets.

 

"The dull ache of my swollen testicles forever remindeth me of reading out loud amongst my fellow travelers" Passengers 9:5

 

I can't speak for other people but I really don't care what other people are reading, to answer your question about the koran

 

I also never said the guy should have been reading aloud

 

But that is what the whole thread is about!

 

I agree...and I said I really don't care what people are reading. Some may, some may not

 

I find it strange that people are so frightened of words, especially when they are words that they don't agree with.

To the point they are prying open train doors and risking electrocution.

I can only surmise that they thought something horrific was about to happen. Yes, cut them some slack, by all means.

 

Some guy gets on a train and starts reading from a religious book.. ya.. I'm going to run away too..

Christian terrorism, Muslim terrorism.. Liberal Eco-Terrorism.. its all tied to the same violent tendencies of radicals.

 

But...but.....the man wasn't violent.....

LOLZ.

 

It wouldn't be apparent one way or the other until the moment he explodes.

Or doesn't.

Probably best not to bet wrong...

 

They are really clamping down on evangelism in the UK.

I'm glad I live in Texas.

 

Headed to London in 2 weeks.

I'll report back on my reading of "Dr Seuss" out loud on the Tube.

 

Let me know how it goes when you offer a seat to a lady, or help a mother of twins, by trying to move people so ya can help her get the stroller on.

You would have thought i was satan in the flesh. My ma later caller her a name to me that i have never heard her say in my life!

 

Prepare yourself to be detained and questioned!!!!

 

A random person on packed public transit reading a religious text to you unprompted? He's either trying to convert you or kill you. Call me cautious but I'd rather not stick around to find out which.

 

Yeah, I can see some of why such a reaction resulted.....

 

If someone was just reading from a bible, it would not bother me unless they were shouting. Reading calmly would not bother me. I would give them a casual assessment. If someone started reading a Koran, I'm vacating pronto.

 

Reading the Bible in Arabic?

 

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I used to live there and I visit NYC frequently. If anyone ANYONE is trying to engage the other passengers in a car, for ANY reason, its time to move. Could be nice guy, could be a terrorist or most likely, someone creating a distraction while their accomplice picks pockets. I'm not sticking around to find out.

 

Your reactions explain some of the responses I get when I do street corner evangelism. :upsidedown: :

But, I'm already crazy so I don't pay it no mind. :thumb:

I figure pretty soon they won't let me do it anymore, so I'd better bust my ass while I can.

 

I've only encountered 2 evangelists in my life. One gave me a Gideon Bible and the other one gave me a tract. I told her I was already saved but she asked me to take it anyway. So I did.

The trick, I have learned, is to be very polite. If someone says NO believe them and move on. If they're going to change their mind, it won't be with you standing there shoving something at them.

 

Been on a number of trains in NYC where Hasidic Jews we reading aloud from bibles in Yiddish. No issues with it.

 

I'd probably avoid one of those, too, but only because youthful experience with that community taught me that quite a few of those guys are dirty old men who think a shikseh is fair game to try to cop a free feel. (Very repressive sexual mores seem to have the same results among all the descendants of Abraham. There seem to be as many sex scandals in Borough Park and Crown Heights these days as in the Catholic church.)