{"id":234,"date":"2004-02-09T17:10:27","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T01:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/02\/09\/how-not-to-inspire-people-to-learn-about-your-faith\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:17:26","slug":"how-not-to-inspire-people-to-learn-about-your-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/02\/09\/how-not-to-inspire-people-to-learn-about-your-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Inspire People to Learn About Your Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3472265.stm\">BBC NEWS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe pilot, whose name was not released, asked Christians on Friday&#8217;s flight to raise their hands.<\/p>\n<p>He then suggested non-Christians talk to the Christians about their faith.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that &#8220;everyone who doesn&#8217;t have their hand raised is crazy&#8221;, passenger Amanda Nelligan told CBS news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He continued to say, &#8216;Well, you have a choice: you can make this trip worthwhile, or you can sit back, read a book and watch the movie&#8217;,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot also told passengers he would be available for discussion at the end of the flight.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enough said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BBC NEWS: The pilot, whose name was not released, asked Christians on Friday&#8217;s flight to raise their hands. He then suggested non-Christians talk to the Christians about their faith. He went on to say that &#8220;everyone who doesn&#8217;t have their hand raised is crazy&#8221;, passenger Amanda Nelligan told CBS news. &#8220;He continued to say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}