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Originally posted by stillwater15
time magazine sold out to the masses. their criteria for selecting man of the year has been in place for years. it goes to the man or woman who has has the greatest impact on the world, good or bad. while i'm definitely not supporting the "cause" of osama bin laden and his followers, the events on 9.11.01 changed the world for present generations and those to come.
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I am a firm believer that what happens to us, dims in importance to how we react to what happens to us. I believe it was Thoreau, but I am not sure, who said, "What lies ahead us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies inside of us." With that said, I agree that Osama Bin Laden and his cohort of cowards changed the world, but more important to me, are the people who are working hard now to personify Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise". That is why I agree that Giulani, at least for his role in America's recovery, is a deserving candidate of the title. His personal life I cannot speak for, his racism I detest, but his positive and resiliant role in the respone to this tragedy is undeniable.
Osama Bin Laden did have a great impact on the world, but so much more a profound impact will be our beliefs, our lifestyle, our spirit, triumphing and soaring in the wake of unthinkable tragedy. How much more impact will watching freedom endure, seeing the Twin Towers rebuilt, Arab-Americans not discriminated against, airplanes flying and our economy recovering have on the world? The effects, monetarily and emotionally, of these positive actions is unimaginable. I agree with Time Magazine, OBL is too small a man to deserve such a title. I don't think they sold out. I believe naming OBL would have been selling out...to the devil.
Romans 8:28-39
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Osama who? If we truly want the person who had the greatest impact on the world this year, actually this and any other, I'm going with God, and that's my vote until eternity.