Time Magazine's Person Of The Year

The criterion [for choosing Time magazine's person of the year] is “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.” [1]

For 2013, the current pope has been selected.  I have an opinion but that does not matter, nor does the magazine's opinion in the eyes of God.  In fact, a person who is truly God's pick would not want to be a part of secular fame, let alone fame that is conferred by those whose opinions and reports are based on a Godless world.

Given what the magazine does every year so famously in picking the person, or thing, that most impact people's lives over the course of a year, let me for the fun of it make the pick for all time.  Before doing so, an assumption needs to be made, that both Jesus and Lucifer are both men in this world doing what each does best in his own ways, both trying to draw people to his side, one with the promise of a blissful afterlife and the other with ruinous temptations in the present one.

So who "wins" as if being named Time magazine's person of the year is a game to be won?  To be sure, being able to exert influence over others is not a game or a joke.  Since it is not, my pick for the person of the year, year after year, is sadly  not who I wish could pick but who I must pick based on Time magazine's criterion above and that is Lucifer.

Lucifer "wins" over Jesus time and time again because instant gratification is the norm for the majority and Lucifer is the master in tempting people to believe that they are able to have it with false hopes and promises whereas Jesus speaks the Truth about an eternity in Heaven that can only be reached after a lifetime of trials and tribulations and not that many have the faith and the patience to go the distance.


[1] http://poy.time.com/2013/12/10/everything-you-wanted-know-about-time-person-of-the-year/