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Commuters Flee Train in 'Bible' Panic

It happened outside Wimbledon station in south-west London at 08:30 BST as a man apparently began reading lines aloud from the Bible.
Commuters became scared when the man began quoting phrases such as, "death is not the end", a passenger said...

Ian, who was on the train, said the man's Bible-reading led to a "commotion" and a "crush".
He said someone then asked the man to stop speaking "as he was scaring people" and "the guy stopped and stood there with his head down".
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I can understand sane, rational people getting freaked out by an adult spouting insane, religious stupidity about magic space people. They probably thought the lunatic was going to start stabbing people or detonate himself in the name of his space king. Maybe they should have tackled him.

Will he be cited for disturbing the peace, using his religion as a weapon or threat? Will we see laws against using religion to hide your insanity?

Interesting event for sure.
 
Maybe the passengers have been reading the comments from liberals on this forum about how Christians are just as bad as Muslims when it comes to religious violence, so they got the hell out of dodge. Wouldn't you? :)
 
thebeave said:
Maybe the passengers have been reading the comments from liberals on this forum about how Christians are just as bad as Muslims when it comes to religious violence, so they got the hell out of dodge. Wouldn't you? :)
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We've all walked past these people and perhaps felt safe having not been cornered. The ones I've encountered on street corners were nuts for sure. Maybe I should ask the next one if he plans on killing anyone for Jesus.

I can't imagine living a life that doesn't know the difference between real and pretend.
 
thebeave said:
Maybe the passengers have been reading the comments from liberals on this forum about how Christians are just as bad as Muslims when it comes to religious violence, so they got the hell out of dodge. Wouldn't you? :)
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This forum? If they're reading this forum, they'd be likely to stop and refute him.

It's the people skimming FSTDT.com that'll panic...
 
Any time someone is ranting to no one in particular in a public space where that normally doesn't happen, it's gonna get attention. Trains are not places where you'd expect any kind of oration or speech outside of travel announcements or instructions in an emergency. And frankly, there's not much more freaky and potentially psycho than quoting the Bible in such a situation. It ain't the Bible anyone's afraid of. It's the Bible's zealots who understandably give pause to rational people.
 
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