[Dilbert San Diego]

More and more, we see BCE and CE instead of BC and AD.

Why is this? Does it offend the sensibilities of liberals that much, to acknowledge that the years on our calendar date from the time of Christ?

But if they are that offended, why don’t they count years from some other event,

[T.B. Yoits]

But if they are that offended, why don’t they count years from some other event?

French Revolution "Year One" in 1793 (calendar abandoned in 1805).

Khmer Rouge "Year Zero" in 1975

[Joe 6-pack]

"Does it offend the sensibilities of liberals that much, to acknowledge that the years on our calendar date from the time of Christ?...But if they are that offended, why don’t they count years from some other event"

It's like women who get married and use a hyphenated last name. They assert their grrrl power(!) by using the last names of both their father and their husband.

[Verginius Rufus]

I prefer BC and AD myself, but I have no problem with people who prefer BCE and CE. I'm afraid that in a few years BC and AD will be banned. "Hate speech" and all that.

"Common" seems like a dumb word to use. I would prefrr "before our era" and "our era" (in German they have vor unser Zeit and unser Zeit).

It would have made dealing with Greek and Roman history easier if an earlier starting point had been chosen like the birth of Abraham (we don't know the exact year but a date could have been arbitrarily selected, say 2001 B.C). So now we would be in 4025 Y.A.