To: Slyfox
Now for my personal pet peeve - when they decided to change BC and AD to BCE and CE. WTH is that? Heck, I learned about BCE and CE when I was 8 years old in Hebrew School. I think you can probably figure out why we never went in for "in the Year of our Lord" stuff.
55 posted on
12/12/2018 9:52:28 PM PST by
ssaftler
(From Governor Moon Bat to Governor Gruesome. We're doomed, I tell you!)
To: ssaftler
Heck, I learned about BCE and CE when I was 8 years old in Hebrew School. I think you can probably figure out why we never went in for "in the Year of our Lord" stuff. That's my recollection, that BCE/CE came from Jewish scholars, and got mainstreamed.
59 posted on
12/13/2018 5:41:14 AM PST by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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