Torillian said:
Torillian said:
I was talking to a professor at my university about this and he had an interesting rationale. Although Jesus has been the most influential person in people's day to day lives for centuries arguably someone like James Watt was much more influential in our day to day lives in the modern age. How different your life would be without Watt and how much the world has changed in such a short amount of time since the industrial revolution is probably more important to your day to day life than religious influence. Now Historically I'm sure Christianity in some way affected the Industrial Revolution, but if we play that game then we wouldn't call Jesus the most influential and we'd instead have to go back further to who influenced the eventual creation of Christianity instead of Jesus himself. |
Another thought came to mind. While Christianity has had a huge impact on Western Culture it hasn't had that same effect world wide and there are regions where it had very little effect, on the other hand you'd be hard pressed to find regions that have not been dirrectly affected by the Industrial Revolution, so I'm sticking with James Watt for the most influential person for modern life. If you are counting influence throughout history then I think you'd probably have to go further back than Jesus.
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Have you been giving this some thought or just every once in a while for some reason something pops in your head for no reason that gets you thinking?
Off topic - do you know about BelAire?
