{"id":315,"date":"2010-12-06T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/12\/religious-contenders-for-times-person-of-the-year-include-beck-colbert-palin-rauf.html"},"modified":"2010-12-06T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:32:00","slug":"religious-contenders-for-times-person-of-the-year-include-beck-colbert-palin-rauf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/12\/religious-contenders-for-times-person-of-the-year-include-beck-colbert-palin-rauf.html","title":{"rendered":"A Faith-Based Look at Time’s Person of the Year Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, Time <\/em>has solicited nominations <\/a>for the magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year. (It’s probably not you — or “you” again<\/a> — this year. Sorry!) Here are the top 20 results, to which I’ve added\"putin_time_narrowweb__300x400,2.jpg\" their religious afffiliations and faith-related links.\"time (I’m doing this rather quickly, so please post in the Comments section\"bernanke if you can fill in the blanks, or see anything that needs to be corrected\"obama-person-of-the-year.jpg\" or clarified.)<\/p>\n

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1. Julian Assange <\/a>(?) <\/p>\n

2. Recep Tayyip Erdogan <\/a>(Muslim)<\/p>\n

3. Lady Gaga <\/a>(raised Catholic)<\/p>\n

4. Jon Stewart<\/a> (Jewish) and Stephen Colbert <\/a>(Catholic)<\/p>\n

5. Glenn Beck <\/a>(Mormon)<\/p>\n

6. Barack Obama <\/a>(Christian)<\/p>\n

7. Steve Jobs <\/a>(Buddhist)<\/p>\n

8. The Unemployed American <\/a>(predominantly Christian)<\/p>\n

9. The Chilean Miners <\/a>(predominantly Catholic)<\/p>\n

10. Sarah Palin <\/a>(Christian)<\/p>\n

11. Mark Zuckerberg <\/a>(raised Jewish)<\/p>\n

12. Liu Xiaobo <\/a>(?)<\/p>\n

13. David Cameron <\/a>(Anglican)<\/p>\n

14. Hu Jintao<\/a> (atheist?)<\/p>\n

15. Robert Gates <\/a>(?)<\/p>\n

16. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf <\/a>(Sufi Muslim) <\/p>\n

17. Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (Catholic)<\/p>\n

18. Craig Venter<\/a> (?)<\/p>\n

19. Arne Duncan <\/a>(?)<\/p>\n

20. Elizabeth Warren, Mary Schapiro and Sheila Bair <\/a>(?)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(The list goes on to include David & Charles Koch, LeBron James<\/a>, Jonathan Franzen, Tony Hayward and Hamid Karzai, but presumably none of them are serious contenders.)<\/p>\n

My vote goes to Imam Rauf (#16), given how much the Cordoba House\/Park 51, Islam, anti-Muslim sentiment and Islamophobia dominated headlines this year. But, it’ll probably be The Unemployed American (#8), or possibly Julian Assange (#1).<\/p>\n

What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n

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