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.
The Roman consuls for the year 1 (A.D.) were Gaius Caesar (grandson and adopted son of Augustus--not the future emperor Gaius) and Lucius Aemilius Paullus. So the Christian era could be called the Caesaro-Paulline era after their names. Neither man was all that important (Augustus's grandson died as a young man) but the Roman political traditions derived from the Caesars and the Christian ideas found in the writings of St. Paul have been extremely influential over the centuries, so we could ignore the fact that "Caesaro-Paulline" actually referred to other individuals.
The current era could be abbreviated CPE and the years before A.D. 1 would be "years before the consulate of Caesar and Paullus" (annos ante consulatum Caesaris Paullique) or ACCP.
The Roman consuls for the year 1 (A.D.) were Gaius Caesar (grandson and adopted son of Augustus--not the future emperor Gaius) and Lucius Aemilius Paullus. So the Christian era could be called the Caesaro-Paulline era after their names. Neither man was all that important (Augustus's grandson died as a young man) but the Roman political traditions derived from the Caesars and the Christian ideas found in the writings of St. Paul have been extremely influential over the centuries, so we could ignore the fact that "Caesaro-Paulline" actually referred to other individuals.
The current era could be abbreviated CPE and the years before A.D. 1 would be "years before the consulate of Caesar and Paullus" (annos ante consulatum Caesaris Paullique) or ACCP.