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To: Redbob

What, you've got a problem with "Before Christ" and "Christ's Era"?


6 posted on 04/21/2006 11:26:52 AM PDT by RonF
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To: RonF
What, you've got a problem with "Before Christ" and "Christ's Era"?

Unfortunately C.E. does not mean Christ's Era, but Common Era.
16 posted on 04/21/2006 11:48:49 AM PDT by GarySpFc (Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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To: RonF
That's NOT what the inventors of "BCE" and "CE" meant.

"CE" is the "Common Era". Whatever that means.

Those terms are explicitly an attempt to purge "Anno Domini", "Year of Our Lord", from the vocabulary.

29 posted on 04/16/2024 11:01:00 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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