Staff Writer – Latoya Wakefield
Social commentary. For years, religious folks have been sharing their love of God’s words with commuters. For some people, it’s a church they can’t avoid as they just paid their hard earned money to get where they have to go so they have to sit and find some way of zoning out.
Preaching loudly and spraying spit to those closest is the least of commuters issues. What really gets to one is when that preacher blocks your exit or condemns you in the name of the Lord if you dare whisper for him to be quiet. What’s even worse is that it’s mandatory when they close with a request for contributions and somehow some manage to make you feel horrible for not giving them your last .
Personally, I like hearing God’s words on the way to work until I saw one preacher twice and realized that he just had one script almost completely verbatim.
Saving souls on a bus in Jamaica. Photo courtesy cucumberjuice.wordpress.com
Some really aren’t respectful and it’s difficult not to conclude that ‘dem just a hustle’ falsely so.Now Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is looking into banning preachers as well as beggars, pets and eating on the buses. Many will rejoice if preachers are banned as experiences are described as disturbing by commuters. What’s your take?
Just for your additional information; A bus preacher in Lagos Nigeria was almost lynched last Saturday morning at Toyota Bus stop, in front of the popular Ladipo Spare parts market, when some condoms allegedly fell out of his bible as he preached the ‘Word of God’.
