CE = Christ’s Era
BCE = Before Christ’s Era
Easy as pie. :)
/those who are intellectually honest already profess that the BCE/CE verbiage is mere window dressing
//because it still has the Incarnation and birth of Our Lord as the proverbial Year 0
You are entitled to your opinion. This is America.
It is pretty stupid of them to take the Gregorian calendar, which Pope Gregory XIII had introduced in 1582 to replace the Julian calendar, which had become inaccurate over time, and try to use a Catholic calendar to avoid the religious connotations.
It’s doing mental handstands to destroy historical context. And they end up Catholic anyway. Just stupid.
Even if a large percentage of human beings want to avoid referring to Christ because he isn’t associated with THEIR belief system, you can’t do it by saying history doesn’t exist.
Unless they start their zero point in some other place for some convoluted reason and find a real scientific basis for avoiding the Gregorian calendar zero point, they’re just looking plain foolish.
I’m a scientist and a rhino doesn’t become a hippo by renaming it, even if you get every liberal historian to hold hands with every other liberal historian, all close their eyes and chant together, “Hippo, hippo, hippo, hippo.”
Personally, I couldn’t care less what the zero point is or feel that I’m making any theological statement of my belief system when I use BC and AD. I’m using HISTORY, not RELIGION to state dates.
We need a thorough cleansing of museums and universities to get out the anti-historians who are playing 1984 with the past. Until education and history return to pure HISTORY, not pure RELIGION, the school books that children use are going to remain tainted by game playing lies.
It’s just important to keep remembering that belief in Christ is NOT the dominant belief system of people using BC and AD. If anyone tries to say that using it is SAYING it means people are stating a religious belief, they reinforce the idiots who are trying to get the dating changed. It’s about HISTORICAL fact of a Catholic pope setting dates to what was believed to be a historical fact. History is NOT 1984.
I know! Why don’t we really do in the anti-historians and suggest a change to a TWO zero point Trump calendar of January 6th 2020 and January 20th 2024! And we can offer to change dating names to BT1 and BT2 and AT1 and AT2. Then we can make YUGE government grants to any scientist who can come up with an easy new calendar based on the two zero point dating system. Since scientific papers always follow the money source, think of the heartburn of every liberal that doesn’t WANT to do the research, but looks at the glorious pot of gold if they celebrate their Chief Nemesis.
/sarc