I'm not a Christian but I can see that, to a significant number of people this IS an important event. Whatever he does or does not do will impact a quite a lot of people, even inaction has its results.

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I feel is amazing is that we can all be aware of what is happening immediately, wherever we are situated in the world. Think back a couple of hundred years and this news would have taken quite a time to reach most of the world. Even 50 years ago we could not have watched this live. Now it happens in a few seconds.