In the annals of the kingdom of God, the true person of the year is the person who is the most humble and others-centered, the person who most resembles Jesus. The person who best loves those who hate him/her.
But in this world, the person of the year is always a person who exercises power. Charles Burris points out,
The choice of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke as the Time Magazine 2009 Person of the Year is no more aberrational than its choice of Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939), Winston Churchill (1940), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941), Joseph Stalin (1942), George Marshall (1943), Dwight Eisenhower (1944), Harry S Truman (1945), James S. Byrnes (1946), George Marshall (1947), Harry S Truman (1948), or Winston Churchill (1949). Bernanke’s selection needs to be put in the proper historic context. Time Magazine has always worshiped power and those who exercise power.
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