Context: at least twenty mostly white people probably aged 18-24 (if I had to guess) are wearing matching outfits praising hymns about themselves and how great they are because they are apparently going to the “poor African villages” to “help the locals find Jesus in their hearts and be saved.” 🤮 So, so, so many things wrong with this.

I am too disgusted to interact with them, but if I calm down which route would be best to take with these twats?

1. Since they assume “the poor black people” are incapable of doing [whatever religious item is on the agenda], I would argue the idiots on this Mission Trip are ableist and actually racist. Or how this is modern-day Colonialism. But explaining these concepts would probably go over their big, empty heads.

2. I am personally on the team “Mission Trip” is a paid vacation other people are guilted into funding in which the ‘Christians’ do absolutely nothing to help the locals and feel good about themselves (better yet, post pics on social media). I am unsure how you feel but to watch this from the outside is actually disgusting. Example: I was living in the area significantly impacted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I had neighbors lose their homes, everything they owned, and family members/friends. I watched “Mission Trips” come by and build Christian churches and leave, without providing the affected with clothes, food, water, shelter or even any items at all … when these survivors literally had nothing and were being bussed to local YMCAs or basketball arenas for shelter. Disgusting is the nicest word I can come up with for this scenario. I used this specific example because these ‘Mission Trips’ go to impoverished countries and do the same stupid shit. Hence the idiots in line in front of me. My blood is boiling so hard.

3. Should I pretend to be a demonic entity tormenting them? I don’t want a medic to come get me and miss my flight nor want a fake exorcism in a public area.

4. Should I engage them in the epiphany they suffer from Stockholm Syndrome about an imaginary figure? Or that they are in a cult? I would probably have better luck asking Kim Jung-On to shoot some Basketball hoops with me.

What are your thoughts on mission trips? Oh, and they are now doing a loud-ass prayer circle forcing us to listen while being held hostage in line … in one of the country’s largest international airports where people behind me are wearing hijabs and many other people are speaking different languages. Sigh. I feel embarrassed to be standing here…