I'm not really sure what the purpose is of the Christian "vending tables" in the campus centre. By this I mean tables where someone is sitting behind a lot of books and literature, presumably there to hand it out and/or sell it, answer questions and whenever possible, convert someone. Every so often I see Muslims instead, which I can understand. Islam has never been the dominant, mainstream religion in this country, and though I imagine most Americans have heard of it by now, it's probably still something of a mystery to most of them. Someone who wasn't too shy or embarrassed might actually walk up and want to learn something about Islam. But who is going to look at the Christian table and go "what's all this, then? And here I was looking for a religion, too!"