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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyEve
[b]2013 Poll: 100 Most Influential Religious People of All Time
http://www.adherents.com/adh_influ.html
Please post your top three choices from the list given. I'll provide a ranked summary
of our poll's results by page. Comments supporting your nominations are welcome.
.[/b]
Adam
Satan
Yes they qualify. Definitely believers, pivotal roles. Or so it is said.
Not on the list? The list shows only a conventional imagination.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI'd say
[b]2013 Poll: 100 Most Influential Religious People of All Time
http://www.adherents.com/adh_influ.html
Please post your top three choices from the list given. I'll provide a ranked summary
of our poll's results by page. Comments supporting your nominations are welcome.
.[/b]
Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei
Archimedes of Syracuse
You didn't specify that their religion had to drive their influence, just that they had to be influential people as well as being religious.
Certainly their discoveries would have been made by others eventually but I believe we would have been several centuries behind our current position by now without them.
--- Penguin.
Originally posted by PenguinRight on!
I'd say
Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei
Archimedes of Syracuse
You didn't specify that their religion had to drive their influence, just that they had to be influential people as well as being religious.
Certainly their discoveries would have been made by others eventually but I believe we would have been several centuries behind our current position by now without them.
--- Penguin.
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby1. Jesus Christ
[b]2013 Poll: 100 Most Influential Religious People of All Time
http://www.adherents.com/adh_influ.html
Please post your top three choices from the list given. I'll provide a ranked summary
of our poll's results by page. Comments supporting your nominations are welcome.
.[/b]
2. Constantine the Great - brought Christianity into the mainstream, firmly establishing it as a major religion, and stopped the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
3. Johann Gutenburg - brought the Bible to the people; before this, only the rich and the Church actually owned Bibles
Originally posted by Grampy BobbySaint Paul (Saul of Tarsus) - wrote the NT
[b]2013 Poll: 100 Most Influential Religious People of All Time
http://www.adherents.com/adh_influ.html
Please post your top three choices from the list given. I'll provide a ranked summary
of our poll's results by page. Comments supporting your nominations are welcome.
.[/b]
Saint Gregory - responsible for Christianity in England
King Henry VIII - Reformation
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyMy first choice from the list is easy, but it becomes more difficult after that.
[b]2013 Poll: 100 Most Influential Religious People of All Time
http://www.adherents.com/adh_influ.html
Please post your top three choices from the list given. I'll provide a ranked summary
of our poll's results by page. Comments supporting your nominations are welcome.
.[/b]
1. Jesus the Christ
2. The apostle to the gentiles - St. Paul
3. Constantine the Great
Originally posted by wolfgang592 things surprised me here.
I've already had my 3 but did anyone consider the imopact that Father Christmas has had on the world?
Or at least the economy!
1. Issac Newton ahead of Jesus.
2. No sign anywhere of the founder of the Mormons.
Could be wrong on number 2, but I didn't see his name mentioned
and that surprised me even more so than Newton charting ahead of Jesus.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI hadn't actually followed the link so those were off the top of my head. I had forgotten about Gutenberg, he should possibly be in the top three but I think it is disappointing that Archimedes doesn't even appear. I suppose we probably do not know which faith he personally followed.
Right on!
[strikethrough]Also, the list gives the faiths they were raised under and followed culturally but not what they actually believed, with the exception of Hitler.[/strikethrough] having looked back, it does say 'lapsed' and 'nominal' on many of the entries.
--- Penguin
