Repentent Sinners now boarding on Track 2!

Why are there always people in the bowels of the subway preaching at full volume that we must all find Jesus? RIGHT NOW!
On my last commute into NYC, no less than 4 people were exhorting that Jesus Saves at select intervals in the tunnels of Port Authority! Clearly there is a territorial aspect to the Daily Moralizing placement plan. The message of the day appeared to be that we will all burn in eternity for our sins, lest we repent now and embrace Jesus. One of the signs even told me so, EMBRACE JESUS NOW OR BURN IN FLAMES. Really? I seemed to have missed that stop.

If preaching to the masses is your thing, then have at it. But in the subway, during morning commuting hours? Have you properly gauged your demographic audience? Let's acknowledge some realities here. That carefully thought out benediction being spouted with righteous certainty about satan's hold on our delicate souls is barely making a dent in the clamor of murmured conversations and the indifference of the routine commuter. These people are on their way somewhere. There is no time for soul saving right now, thank you very much. Converting? There is barely time to catch the next train let alone convert. Most are hoping that the Grande Double Espresso shot starts to kick in as ipod's distance them from their fellow commuters crushing in on all sides.

Amidst the aroma of stale piss, the sweat stank of countless bodies, glazed eyes focusing inward to the work day ahead and what to make for dinner as people bustle to and fro, is this where the evils of humanity will be wrested and subdued? Is that pamphlet, one of the many currently being brandished about in glorious supplication to the testament of the savior or being forced into the hands of the suspicious and unwary, really going to turn the tide?

Frankly, I can do without the evangelizing so early in the morning. Particularly when it appears that I have only one last chance before I face my ultimate destiny and if I DO NOT see the light, so to speak, At This Very Moment, then I am on a train bound for hell.

Have you not noticed where we are???? Now, if you could get that damn train to run on time, well then, I just might reconsider your position.