So since we all know He was born earlier, shouldn’t we change the dating? I mean really, you guys are simply dishonoring Him by using a freak from the sixth century faulty dating mechanism.
If you are so against renaming a bad dating systems, why not abandoned the gregorian dating too. That was a modern innovation too...
If you want to abandon reference to Jesus, then you should say it’s the year 2768 - that would be dating from what is thought to be the year Rome was founded. Or it’s the year 1637 — 1637 years since Mohammed’s hegira.
but anyone who says “this is the year 2015” is using the Christian calendar - 2015 years since Christianity began. You can change the terminology to BCE or CE, but you’re still using the Christian dating system, still dating from the time of Christ, not from any other event of significance. So BCE or CE is a fraud - an attempt to deny that you’re doing what you’re doing. An attempt to whitewash Jesus out of history, while still using a date system founded by Christians, based on Christian belief.