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To: NC28203
Would you expect the Jews working with Israeli antiquities to use such terminology?

Then the Jews should use their historical calendar, which dates back over 5,700 years. "BCE" and "CE" are PC terms used by liberals and other assorted haters of Western civilization to denigrate the Christian roots of that civilization. Like other PC terms, they are used as part of a long term strategy to change the English language to reflect the beliefs of the Left. The model is the Newspeak described by George Orwell in his prophetic novel, 1984.

16 posted on 07/26/2006 2:43:02 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

>>>Then the Jews should use their historical calendar, which dates back over 5,700 years. BCE" and "CE" are PC terms used by liberals and other assorted haters of Western civilization to denigrate the Christian roots of that civilization

Again, not all practitioners of this science have Christian roots. Your suggestion would create unnecessary confusion with the Israelis using one calendar, the Chinese using another calendar, the Persians another and so on. The use of BCE and CE provides a common measure. When science uses mulitple units of measure problems can result. Confusion between metric and English measurements by NASA led to the destruction of the Challenger.


21 posted on 07/26/2006 2:59:51 PM PDT by NC28203
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