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To: Balding_Eagle
I liked the BC (before Christ) much better than BCE, (before Christ's Era).

I think the secular progressives started using "BCE" to replace "BC" a number of years ago, with the acronym meaning "Before Common Era."

7 posted on 12/01/2015 4:03:24 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: GreenHornet

I don’t much care WHAT they call it ... it will alweays be BC and AD to me


8 posted on 12/01/2015 4:08:20 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: GreenHornet

I did say I knew.

I just refuse.

meaningless gesture I know, but I do have a bit of Liberal vanity in me, and I say it just to feel better about myself.


9 posted on 12/01/2015 4:10:23 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: GreenHornet
when ever a RAT says that, i ask them common to WHAT??? Christ... and they shut up
18 posted on 12/01/2015 4:47:16 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: GreenHornet

The common dating method for Jews is ‘since creation’ - the BCE used here is for a common dating system, since historians know that Jesus was not born in year 1.


23 posted on 12/01/2015 5:06:55 AM PST by Tzfat
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To: GreenHornet
I think the secular progressives started using "BCE" to replace "BC" a number of years ago, with the acronym meaning "Before Common Era."

Truly a progressive idea, no real meaning. Common to what?

25 posted on 12/01/2015 5:15:41 AM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: GreenHornet
I think the secular progressives started using "BCE" to replace "BC" a number of years ago, with the acronym meaning "Before Common Era."

I had to deal with it from a "Religion" professor in college back in the mid-1990s. I did ask the question "and what is it, exactly, that before common era, and common era (the new term for AD) centered on?" He didn't much care for that.

32 posted on 12/01/2015 6:12:32 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: GreenHornet
I think the secular progressives started using "BCE" to replace "BC" a number of years ago, with the acronym meaning "Before Common Era."

I have one simple question for folks who insist on the silly "BCE" nomenclature: "What is the defining event that divides the two eras?"

46 posted on 12/01/2015 12:56:02 PM PST by zeugma (http://xkcd.com/1608/)
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