Did We Really Need Seven New Wonders?

Posted by Zonk on Saturday July 7, 2007 @07:11PM from the i-miss-the-hanging-gardens dept.

freakxx writes "Seven new 'wonders of the world' have been announced today in a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal. People throughout the world have voted actively to elect the new 7 out of 21 finalists. The final lineup is: Chichen Itza, Mexico; Christ Redeemer, Brazil; The Great Wall, China; Machu Picchu, Peru; Petra, Jordan; The Roman Colosseum, Italy; and The Taj Mahal, India. The Pyramids of Giza was the only candidate that used to be among the original seven wonders. Did we really need seven new wonders of the world? Why was this decided via a website poll (pdf) and SMS messages?"

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Re:Why lament it? by Guppy06 · 2007-07-08 02:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"I'd have voted for that before voting for that stupid Christ statue."

Yeah, let's bad-mouth the Jesus statue not because it is anything but an engineering marvel for its era, but because it's of Jesus. I still fail to see much difference between militant evangelical Christians and militant evangelical atheists.