I really hate the CE/BCE designations. I do not use them. BC & AD.
Ya, i noted that too. What’s with this 64 CE date; why not say it’s 64 AD????
Political correctness has infiltrated just about every area of society.
As this affects the calendar, I would expect that the “Gregorian calendar” will be abandoned at some point. Future liberals will decry that a Pope Gregory had anything to do with it. And with using CE and BCE, the liberals are still counting from the birth of Christ.
I expect the new calendar of the future, may designate 2009 as year 1, based on the date of Obama becoming president.
Or perhaps 2004 will be year 1, the year that homosexual marriage started in Massachusetts, the first place in America to have homosexual marriage.
Or 1970 could be year 1, as that was the year of the first Earth Day.
It all depends on what significant event the liberals want to honor with the start of their new liberal era.
I’m half joking with this post, but half not sure if this is a joke, or if the above could ever really happen.
The liberals may think that using BCE and CE gets rid of any tieback to the time of Christ, but when they realize that it does not accomplish that, then they may impose a new system.
Me as well.
“I really hate the CE/BCE designations. I do not use them. BC & AD”.
Same here.
Political Correctness can go to Hell where it belongs.
CE - Christian Era
BCE - Before Christian Era
I am suspicious of any writer who uses CE and BCE instead of BC and AD. The dates refer to the same time-the birth of Christ. If we accept this devious attempt to exclude Jesus from the dating of history by calling the same time from by another name, we are accepting defeat. I will resist it at all times, and I hope others will too. Common Era? And just what was it that made it common?