by Luke Mcclure

Created on: November 30, 2008   Last Updated: January 05, 2010

The answer to this question depends on how you interpret it. To some the answer is whomever they personally admire, honor and respect the most. To me the question is asking who, out of all human beings from all of time, is more admired then anyone else by most people. From a numerical standpoint, or if the world were to put this question to a democratic vote, without a doubt, Jesus Christ would win hands down. Almost one in every three people on the planet professes to be followers of Christ as Christianity is the world's largest religion. Even prominent Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists, have expressed positive remarks about Christ and his teachings, as a good man or enlightened one. I think Christ would win the popular vote by a landslide, and would also be a candidate most people could admire, honor and respect even if he was not their first choice.

But how cliche. It just doesn't seem creative or unique to choose the human being who is already the most popular. Or the guy that most people could settle on if they had to come to an agreement about who would be the overall best pick world wide. It is almost annoying to think about this question as a popularity contest. Reading the choices of the other writers, it is as if most purposely choose to ignore Christ's popularity and make a good case for someone else for a change.

The reason I think Christ deserves the most respect, admiration and honor of anyone who has and ever will live, has nothing to do with his current popularity or the number of people that claim to follow him or believe in him. Nor does the intensity of those who claim to be Christians provide merit to why he should earn such a title because many followers of other religions, agnostics and atheists alike have shown such intensity towards their beliefs.

His popularity is because maybe those pesky Christians made such a point and purpose to spread his message everywhere they could. Maybe because allot of people needed a place to settle somewhere between Israel and Ishmael after Abraham's one-God theory started to gain favor. Maybe it fit better with intellectuals who needed something that would mesh with science easier then the more mystical religions. Or perhaps because the generic message of the golden rule and love is widely spread and accepted as good, and even an atheist can deal with it, once it is removed from politics, money and power.

For some strange reason a small cult of die-hard-without-a-vengeance Christians survived the persecution

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