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To: SJackson

I think it’s ironic that this writer mentions the dangers of poliitcal.correctness. Yet he notes the date of the destruction of Jerusalem at “70 C.E.” The initials C.E. stand for common era, and are themselves a politically correct way to avoid saying “A.D.” or Anno Domino, the Year of our Lord.

Instead of B.C. in historic dates, you sometimes see B.C.E., in which the politically correct crowd are deciding that B.C., or Before Christ, is no longer allowed. B.C.E. stands for Before Common Era.

The calendar years are still numbered based on the time of Christ, but we are forbidden to note that this is where this numbering system originated.


4 posted on 01/23/2015 5:36:36 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

When I see CE or BCE in any article that’s as far as I read. No need to continue reading unless it happens to be an article specifically about how the demon infested like to use CE and BCE.


10 posted on 01/23/2015 6:01:47 PM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

CE can equal Christian Era

BCE -Before Christian Era.

works for me.


12 posted on 01/23/2015 6:23:04 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The calendar years are still numbered based on the time of Christ, but we are forbidden to note that this is where this numbering system originated.

You aren't forbidden. But you do know that the whole world is not Christian, yes? And that no one knows exactly when Jesus was born?
21 posted on 01/23/2015 8:28:48 PM PST by Nepeta
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