BCE and CE are secular terms for worldwide use, and in case you are not aware, the terms come from the original story — so if you have a problem with my not having changed the excerpt, take it up with the Moderators.
I first heard BCE and CE used around 1980 in a college theology class at this country's most renowned Catholic University. I recall thinking it was stupid then, and later learned that it came from the same marxists who gave us deconstruction analysis and other gramsci-ist methods of destroying the underlying foundations of Western civilization. I refuse to use the terms, and when the usage is particularly stupid, I might point it out, as I did when the author of your article chose to refer to dates as "3000 years before the present era", accepting the starting point for our calendar as the birth of Christ while persisting in a refusal to acknowledge just what, pray tell, created our "present era". It was more annoying than the usual mere use of "BCE", and I simply pointed out the author's twisted use of language.
That caused you to appoint yourself the "ridicule" police, which is more Alinsky than Gramsci. If you are conservative, instead of just posting interesting archaeology articles on a conservative site, you should examine why it bothers you when people point this issue out. It bothers me more that marxists have coopted our language. Maybe upon reflection, you will realize that you should not participate in our history's destruction.