Anyone who deals with Greek history has to deal with backwards counting. It would have been easier if Jerome or someone had selected some earlier date like the birth of Abraham or the Flood and counted forward from that. Plus if you want to calculate the interval since a date B.C. you have to remember there was no year zero--so the 2500th anniversary of the battle of Marathon was 2011, not 2010.
People who don't like "B.C." because it means "Before Christ" could just read it as "Backwards Counting." Then "A.D." becomes "After Dat."
People who don’t like CE could just think of it as “Christian Era.”
We have s a legitimate concern about bias against religious dating in the secular world. However, BCE, and CE also have a valid basis in that BC and AD refer to an event that did not take place at year 1.
Here is my proposal for those who are stuck in BC/AD: change the current date to match. Since Jesus was born most likely in 4 BCE, subtract 5 years from the current Gregorian year: If this was 2010 AD, it actually would be accurate. Since it is 2015, it is not accurate to say “AD” after it.