I know many of you have sent messages about voting for Time's "Man of the
Century. I received the following from another list I'm on and thought y'all
might be interested. I apologize in advance for those who receive multiple
copies.
Michael G
Subj: [christpup] Update on Time Poll for Person of the Century
Date: 08/02/1999 8:00:26 PM Central Daylight Time
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Remember the Time Poll for "Person of the Century"?
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/time100/poc/century.html
I just looked at it again and they removed Jesus Christ from the poll!
They state:
"We did not wish to see this poll turned into a mockery"
Here's their notice at
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/time100/poc/editor_note.html
To Our Readers
We understand that some of our users are upset that the votes for Jesus
Christ as "Person of the Century" were removed from our online poll. Here is
the reasoning behind that decision: TIME's Man of the Year, instituted in the
1930s, has always been based on the impact of living persons on events around
the world. It is a secular judgment. It does not try to estimate, and could
not estimate, the impact of spiritual forces or of faith. The Person of the
Century uses the same criteria.
When we removed the votes for Jesus we also removed the votes for the Prophet
Mohammed. We did not wish to see this poll turned into a mockery, because in
our experience it is quite possible that supporters of the leading figures
might have turned to computer robots to churn out hundreds of thousands of
"phony" votes for their champions. Neither followers of Christianity nor
Islam would have gained from that process. Ours is a poll that attempts to
judge the works of mere men, the acts in which men render unto Caesar, and it
does not try to measure expressions of faith.
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