Back in the early 1980's, there was a best- selling book entitled Blue Highways. The novel chronicles one man's adventures along the back roads and secondary highways of America. His journeys took him into crossroad villages and almost forgotten towns where he met all kinds of interesting people, including a few hitchhikers whom he befriended. Among the hitchhikers was a Bible-toting self styled evangelist, who passed out religious tracts and confronted everyone he met with questions about their salvation, the final judgment and the second coming of Jesus. The two travelers stopped one morning at a small restaurant in the middle of nowhere to eat breakfast. The evangelist immediately began his pitch to the waitress, who did not pay much attention to him as she went about her work. Finally,…