I had read somewhere that during the London blitz that angels may have taken over the controls of RAf fighters when the pilots were killed.
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This is silly, but there is a tendency here which is a serious one; Deny mankind their own achievements, discredit the heroism and sacrifice of the actual pilots, and give all the credit to God.
Why is it that these people appear to have the idea that when they get "raptured" a lot of them will be steering/driving/flying some sort of passenger carrying vehicle/plane?
Everybody knows they'll just be flipping burgers.
"I had read somewhere that during the London blitz that angels may have taken over the controls of RAf fighters when the pilots were killed."
I think I would have rather had them cutting down Nazi planes with their flaming swords than flying planes with dead pilots. It would have been more useful.
The Blitz had nothing to do with RAF fighter pilots, those are two different theatres of war.
The Blitz was all about Nazi night bombing against which fighters were of no practical defence because night fighters couldn't operate in anything like the numbers needed to worry a flight of bombers
Where the RAF pilots came in was preventing day attacks against British military targets in the south of England over counties such as Kent, Essex and over the English Channel. Over 100 miles from London in most cases.
By the time of the Blitz the Battle of Britain had already been won. Hitler had been forced to call off day time raids on British airfields and factories because the Luftwaffe's losses were too great to sustain. The Blitz, though devastating, was of no military value.
If the angels really wanted to be useful, they'd have taken over the controls before the pilots were killed. It's just like with Sodom and Gomorrah: instead of striking the townspeople blind from the git-go, the angels waited until after Lot offered to let the townspeople gang-rape his young, virgin daughters. After the townspeople refused to rape the poor, terrified girls, then the angels finally admitted that, hey, presto, they had the ability to deal with the problem themselves all along.
I got this bullshit poured into my brain when I was a kid along with hosts of other tall tales about how God sent angels to protect the True Believers from Evil.
Eventually I grew up, turned on my brain, and unleashed my skepticism on these stories. They didn't last long.
I had read somewhere that during the London blitz, RAF pilots were cold blooded motherfuckers that defended their home contry, their contrymen and anything they standed for with only their reflexes, ability, all the flying steel engineering could provide them, and that some of them gave their lives to it.
Giving this achievment to your magical imaginary frind is soiling their memory.
"angels"
Nah, you've mixed up the "Doctor Who" episodes "Blink" with the 'Weeping Angels', and "Victory of the Daleks" - in which three Supermarine Spitfires are refitted to fly in space (via a genius scientist - actually an android created by the Daleks) to battle a Dalek ship.
But then, it's easy for a moron like you acelow(IQ) to confuse things; but "Doctor Who" is a documentary series. [/hyper-sarcasm] [/Whovian]
""I had read somewhere that during the London blitz that angels may have taken over the controls of RAf fighters when the pilots were killed."
Ah, so when Douglas Bader was flying his Spitfire, post-amputations, those 'angels' were controlling the rudder pedals for him, seeing as he had tin legs?! [/hyper-sarcasm II]
...oh, and what about the elite Interceptor pilots for Spectrum on Cloudbase, in "Captain Scarlet"?! [/nerd] [/Gerry Anderson]
"I had read somewhere that during the London blitz that angels may have taken over the controls of RAf fighters when the pilots were killed."
Maybe so, but they still crashed.
Whatever
@Kuno
Great minds think alike. Even some Battle of Britain veterans approved of those scenes in that particular "Doctor Who" episode; if it brought to the attention of new generations of viewers the heroism of those Spitfire & Hurricane pilots (either vs. Hitler's Luftwaffe in RL, or vs Daleks in fiction), all the better. Speaking of which...:
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...the last remaining of 'The Few' would like a word with you, arse low. Re. their comrades who never came home, as per the above memorial.
@Starship Jesus
What are you talking about?
What pisses me of about Christianity is how much its adherents tell you that you didn't achieve anything. You didn't work your ass off to get where you are, it was all given by God. You weren't an army of badasses who fought for their country in the sky and died heroes' deaths to win, it was all angels! You never had to achieve anything, because God, damn it, did everything! Bleh. Makes me wanna puke. And yeah, GLORY TO THE OMNISSIAH! 01000100010001010101010101010011001000000100110101000101010000110100100001000001010011100100100101000011010101010101001100100001
@/TheJebusFire:wave your dinner bye-bye and enjoy your nightmares.
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