{"id":838,"date":"2002-10-20T22:29:29","date_gmt":"2002-10-21T06:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/20\/who-are-the-best-and-worst-people-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2002-10-20T22:29:29","modified_gmt":"2002-10-21T06:29:29","slug":"who-are-the-best-and-worst-people-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/20\/who-are-the-best-and-worst-people-of-all-time","title":{"rendered":"Who Are The Best and Worst People Of All Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just ran across a very interesting website by Clifford Pickover<\/a> which purports to rank the best and worst people in all of history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are his picks:<\/p>\n

Evil People<\/b>
\n1. Tomas de Torquemada
\n2. Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler)
\n3. Adolph Hitler
\n4. Ivan the Terrible
\n5. Adolph Eichmann
\n6. Pol Pot
\n7. Mao Tse-tung
\n8. Idi Amin
\n9. Joseph Stalin
\n10. Genghis Khan
\n11. H. H. Holmes
\n12. Gilles de Rais<\/p>\n

Good People<\/b>
\n1. Buddha
\n2. Baha\u2019u\u2019llah
\n3. Dalai Lama
\n4. Jesus Christ
\n5. Moses
\n6. Mother Theresa
\n7. Abraham Lincoln
\n8. Martin Luther King
\n9. Mohandas Gandhi <\/p>\n

Obviously, we as Christians would radically differ in his assessment of Jesus, and I personally have questions about the relative ranking of many individuals on his list. Still, the exercise is an intriguing one: who would you rank as the most righteous and most vile people of all time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just ran across a very interesting website by Clifford Pickover which purports to rank the best and worst people in all of history. Here are his picks: Evil People 1. Tomas de Torquemada 2. Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) 3. Adolph Hitler 4. Ivan the Terrible 5. Adolph Eichmann 6. Pol Pot 7. Mao Tse-tung 8. \u2026 Continue reading \u201cWho Are The Best and Worst People Of All Time?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-integration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-dw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}