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For that matter, does anyone know if this is true, or is it just something that a Christian writer fabricated for a compelling piece of drama?

From Where was God on September 11th?

To quote the relevant portion to my question:

The day before the terrorist outrage an American Airlines passenger noticed a stewardess breaking up ice with a wine bottle. Concerned that she might hurt herself, he asked if there was some other way of doing this. The stewardess was impressed that he should be so concerned, and after they had talked together she gladly accepted a Christian tract from him. Later in the flight she told him it was the sixth tract of this kind that she had been given recently, and asked,

What does God want from me?

The man replied,

Your life!

He then explained her need to get right with God through trusting Christ. Less than twenty-fours later she was on the first plane to crash into the World Trade Centre.
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I'm curious if anyone else has come across this, and if there is any sliver of truth to it. Thanks.
 
It's also too bad she didn't hurt herself breaking up ice with a wine bottle and have to stay home...
 
No proper names.

Not for the tract giver, who would have 'witnessed' this miracle for the story, since this is a day before the UL, who presumably must have traced the (also unnamed) flight attendant to the other flight, a day later.

We don't get details about where the plane was going, what flight number, etc. either. Presumably, after a full workday, the flight attendant received at least 12 hours of crew rest.

I'm certain that given all these concerns, someone could probably find some flight attendant to assign this story to, but no way to connect the story to her.

If you're someone who routinely busts up ice with a bottle (first class?), is she more likely to be 'touched' by a Christians concern you'll hurt yourself, or simply be polite?

Of course, 'gladly accepted a Christian tract' sounds fishy, too.

It is possible some fundy saw a girl with 'Barbara' on her name tag, saw a 'Barbara' on the list and simply assumed they were one and the same.

It's also more than a little possible the story is pure B.S.
 
Eleatic Stranger said:
It's also too bad she didn't hurt herself breaking up ice with a wine bottle and have to stay home...
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Isn't this where someone says, "Well God works in mysterious ways."? So in this case I guess God planned on using her story and condemnation to Hell as a way to really get the point across.
 
Wait a minute. Are you suggesting that Christians would lie in order to spread the Gospel of Jesus?!?


I wonder if it was a Chick tract?
 
Ladewig said:
Wait a minute. Are you suggesting that Christians would lie in order to spread the Gospel of Jesus?!?


I wonder if it was a Chick tract?
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Hmm, I doubt that. A Chick tract is irresistible, she would have instantly been born again, and gone to Heaven happily the next day, although she might have been disappointed by missing out on the chance to wax on rapturously about the Rapture, along with preparing Rapture Packages for friends and families left behind to battle Satan.
 
So how about all the people who get given tracts and preached at who don't get killed the next day?
 
TragicMonkey said:
So how about all the people who get given tracts and preached at who don't get killed the next day?
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Obviously, that proves that God isn't out to make everyone suffer in order to get them to "get right with God." That gets chalked up in the God is all-loving category.
 
Well, at least this story is perfectly sane compared to the "I saw the devil's face in the smoke from the WTC!" and the "angels caught on tape flying around the falling towers!" stories, both of which I heard from my coworkers this week. It's sickening that people want to exploit tragedy to make their stories more compelling.
 
TragicMonkey said:
Well, at least this story is perfectly sane compared to the "I saw the devil's face in the smoke from the WTC!" and the "angels caught on tape flying around the falling towers!" stories, both of which I heard from my coworkers this week. It's sickening that people want to exploit tragedy to make their stories more compelling.
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I can understand the devil story. The enormity of this tragedy is so great that many people could not accept it. The angel story confuses me. No one who jumped from the towers lived. What is the purpose of saying that angels watched people fall to their deaths? It all seems rather heartless to me.
 
Eleatic Stranger said:
It's also too bad she didn't hurt herself breaking up ice with a wine bottle and have to stay home...
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Hey, yeah! Why did that passenger butt his nose in in the first place? I bet he was the Devil.

~~ Paul
 
Are there any depths to which these people will not sink?! They are already the "majority shareholders" in the "death industry". Now they feel the need to exploit every last tragedy! Is nothing sacred?! As a 9/11 survivor I find this absolutely appalling!

I wish for this person a swift clown shoe to the groin.
 
I have it on very good authority that on Sept 10th 2001, Muslims all over the US were in fact, handing out Islamic religious pamphlets written by the great and famous Muslim tract writer Al-Chick-el-Sadur and they said???????????????
 
Anders said:
Can ANYBODY say "Urban Legend"?

C'mon, its so obvious!
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Well it's a potential Urban Legend. I performed a Google search for keywords in the story, and the site I linked in the initial post is the only one with the story, so far as I can tell.

Other than that lack of general communicative transmission, it certainly has the potential. Unverifiable, with that lurking message of "Hey, you could die tomorrow, you might want to believe in God, let me tell you about this stewardess..."

It's got potential. Totally fictional, but that's never stopped other fictions from becoming best-sellers.
 
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