Posted on 09/02/2011 3:53:45 PM PDT by cakid1
Its all about being 'politcally correct.'
Many Christians are upset over the talk of removing the use of Before Christ (B.C.) and Anno Domini (A.D.) in school textbooks.
Its not happened here in the U.S. yet, but they're talking about it in Australia.
"The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority" wants to replace B.C. and A.D. (Anno Domini is Latin for “the year of our Lord”) with less religious terms.
So, what would be less religious?
How about:
BCE - (Before Common Era)
BP (Before Present)
And CE (Common Era)
And you can ask as I’ve done “What Common Era are you talking about?”
I think it has happened in some US texts, I am sure I have seen it mentioned before.
BB (Before Barak) but then we’d have to change all those pesky numbers, too...
And folk wonder WHY all the bad stuff has been hitting the fan lately...GOOD GOD PLEASE AMERICA WAKE THE HECK UP and bring down those evil liberal PC BS!! ENOUGH!!!!!! I guarantee you that these bastards wouldn’t touch the muslim god ALLAH with a stick! BASTARDS!
I know this hasn’t hit the US yet...I’m only sounding the alarm ahead of time cause you know it will and it has already started on History channel and Nat. Geo!!
BCE - Before Christian Era
CE - Christian Era.
If someone else reads them differently, that's their right.
I can understand why Jews, Hindus, other non-Christians might not wish to refer to Christ. Why get all upset about it?
It has happened here already.
I remember reading that BCE - (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) were inventions of a few Jewish academics who wanted to used the Christian calender but didn’t want to acknowledge the Christian part.
BP (Before Present) is an actual time reference based on the date 1950. If they don’t want to use AD and BC they should use this.
It is already taking place in America. A number of liberal denominations have been using CE and BCE for several years in their “religious” publications. Dovetails with changing their lectionaries, prayer books, missals and other sources.
I was born in 48. I guess that makes me really old, LOL
Or really young, you’re 2 (BP).
Current affairs classes can utilize the phrasing for the past few decades as:
SE
=Stupid Era
Just spread the story that it stands for Before the Christian Era
Its been going on for years. Just watch documentaries..they refer to everything regarding ancient history as BCE.
We know the difference. This is where schooling our children has become mandatory.
I still teach it BC and AD...and always will.
Considering the historical fact that Jesus was born no later than 4 BCE, BCE and CE are simply more correct. Otherwise, this is 2015 Anno Domino.
Great, so when the kids get out of school and read real books, they won’t know what the hell they are talking about. That’s what I call education!
We might as well just let our kids play World of Warcraft for eight hours a day if this crap keeps up. They would probably learn more useful skills in real life than they would from being force fed leftist fantasies. In a game like WOW, they could learn about teamwork, basic mathematics, basic economics, critical thinking, and maybe even get some practice on their social skills... maybe.
Not that I recommend letting your kids play silly video games for 8 hours a day, but it would probably be less damaging than sending them to a public school.
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