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To: blam
"It was set up around 355 BCE..."

There's no such date. "BCE" isn't a legally recognized dating format.

There's "BC" and there's "AD," but "BCE" and "CE" are figments of imaginative college profs and other politically correct nincompoops.

15 posted on 04/15/2008 7:47:53 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Earliest-found use of “vulgaris aerae” (Latin for Common Era) (1615). Johannes Kepler (1615). Joannis Keppleri Eclogae chronicae : ex epistolis doctissimorum aliquot virorum & suis mutuis, quibus examinantur tempora nobilissima: 1. Herodis Herodiadumque, 2. baptismi & ministerii Christi annorum non plus 2 1/4, 3. passionis, mortis et resurrectionis Dn. N. Iesu Christi, anno aerae nostrae vulgaris 31. non, ut vulgo 33., 4. belli Iudaici, quo funerata fuit cum Ierosolymis & Templo Synagoga Iudaica, sublatumque Vetus Testamentum. Inter alia & commentarius in locum Epiphanii obscurissimum de cyclo veteri Iudaeorum. (in Latin). Francofurti : Tampach. “anno aerae nostrae vulgaris”


17 posted on 04/15/2008 7:52:41 PM PDT by tokenatheist (Can I play with madness?)
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To: Southack

CE=Christian era. BCE=Before Christ even!

These profs seem to be bitter,clinging to their atheism and delusions of grandeur.


24 posted on 04/15/2008 7:57:34 PM PDT by OeOeO
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B.C.E.—Before the common era, traced to begin in the reign of
Caesar Augustus. C.E. Common Era.. Just another way for academia to purge religion from all things scholarly. Wrote a paper once for a history course using B.C. (before Christ), and A.D. (Anno Dommini—in the year of our Lord), the professor initially wanted to count off 40 out of a possible 250 points for the paper. I asked him aside from that what it was in his view, he said it was otherwise a solid 250 point paper, but using B.C. and A.D. was not considered academically
professional. I raised caine with the department head and the academic affairs committee, he folded...


41 posted on 04/15/2008 9:42:11 PM PDT by Schwaeky (The Republic--Shall be reorganized into the first American EMPIRE, for a safe and secure Society!)
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