Captain Sully cashes in on his fame.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm so disappointed in this guy.

[ficklefiend]

What a dick.

[CJ]

I'm so disappointed in this guy.

Why? Seems to be a perfectly legitimate way to help out a children's hospital?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm so disappointed in this guy.

Why? Seems to be a perfectly legitimate way to help out a children's hospital?

I was taking the piss, CJ.

[CJ]

I'm so disappointed in this guy.

Why? Seems to be a perfectly legitimate way to help out a children's hospital?

I was taking the piss, CJ.

Good When I watched the video I was waiting for there to be some sort of 'praise the Lard' outburst at the end.

[Twoflower]

I'm so disappointed in this guy.

Why? Seems to be a perfectly legitimate way to help out a children's hospital?

I was taking the piss, CJ.

Good When I watched the video I was waiting for there to be some sort of 'praise the Lard' outburst at the end.

I think St. Judes is a pretty secular hospital. It is a great place to donate money, and Sully never mentioned god when he was interviewed after landing the plane.

[CJ]

I think St. Judes is a pretty secular hospital. It is a great place to donate money, and Sully never mentioned god when he was interviewed after landing the plane.

Good man!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think St. Judes is a pretty secular hospital. It is a great place to donate money, and Sully never mentioned god when he was interviewed after landing the plane.

Ditto on St. Judes. If they treated animals as well they'd be nearly perfect.

I was pleased that there wasn't much "miracle" about that event. People knew damn good and well it was skill and a great crew that made it happen.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I think St. Judes is a pretty secular hospital. It is a great place to donate money, and Sully never mentioned god when he was interviewed after landing the plane.

Ditto on St. Judes. If they treated animals as well they'd be nearly perfect.

I was pleased that there wasn't much "miracle" about that event. People knew damn good and well it was skill and a great crew that made it happen.

There is the small matter of the name of the hospital, however. Saint Jude's!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think St. Judes is a pretty secular hospital. It is a great place to donate money, and Sully never mentioned god when he was interviewed after landing the plane.

Ditto on St. Judes. If they treated animals as well they'd be nearly perfect.

I was pleased that there wasn't much "miracle" about that event. People knew damn good and well it was skill and a great crew that made it happen.

There is the small matter of the name of the hospital, however. Saint Jude's!

Can't have everything. At least not yet. Besides, I've started xlating "saint" into "didn't get caught doing the dirty".

[Feck]

I don't care if they change the name to Pope Ratzinger as long as they do the work.

Same with the Red cross or Christian aid

It would be nice to have all these charities secular organisations but if Xians need to be reminded of their faith so these causes get money I'm all for it .

When I was at school some Evangelists were invited around to do their thing (you know happy faces little song and dance ,thinly veiled preaching ).
the think that most upset me at the time was their Song "It don't mean a thing ,if it's not done for him!" in which they explained that good works were worthless if they were done by the 'unsaved' ......( I think it was the Biology teacher who took me to the pub that day so I could calm down :pissed:)

If an Atheist, even a famous one like RD or Hitchens made a big donation to that hospital do you think they would refuse the money ?

Lots of hospitals are called after saints ....Renaming them would be counter productive .

[mozg]

I think St. Judes is a pretty secular hospital. It is a great place to donate money, and Sully never mentioned god when he was interviewed after landing the plane.

Good man!

Katie Couric asked him if he prayed at any point and he said:

I would imagine somebody in back was taking care of that for me while I was flying the airplane.

My focus at that point was so intensely on the landing. I thought of nothing else.

He didn't even for a second say that he did just because it was the answer that people would expect. Whatever the man's religious beliefs or lack thereof, he was willing to go on national television and say that in the middle of a crisis he did not pray.

I think it's great that he's trying to help sick children.

[Trolldor]

I don't see why the absence of prayer is at all relevant. You'd have thought that this lot was more impressed by him not praying than landing the plane.

[mozg]

I don't see why the absence of prayer is at all relevant. You'd have thought that this lot was more impressed by him not praying than landing the plane.

It's not that he didn't actually pray while landing the plane, because really, that controlled crash and saving all of those people's lives is the most amazing thing I've ever seen a commercial pilot do.

It's that he didn't feel a need to tell every reporter he could that god helped him through it or spend all his on-camera time thanking god, since it's pretty much expected in the US that if you survive a tragedy you have to blather about god to the reporters. Regardless of whether they prayed at the time, most people are going to tell Katie Couric that god had something to do with it after the fact. Sully didn't, and I think that deserves notice.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

I don't see why the absence of prayer is at all relevant. You'd have thought that this lot was more impressed by him not praying than landing the plane.

It's not that he didn't actually pray while landing the plane, because really, that controlled crash and saving all of those people's lives is the most amazing thing I've ever seen an autopilot do...