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To: Vehmgericht

uh....No!

A.D. is based on the birth of Christ. (in spite of the “After Death” reference)

Common Era is used to ignore the existence of Christ.


24 posted on 04/15/2018 7:32:47 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: G Larry; gibsonguy

“A.D. is based on the birth of Christ. (in spite of the “After Death” reference). Common Era is used to ignore the existence of Christ.”

Dang. Up until today I thought it meant “Christian Era”.

Why I’m an engineer and not an archaeologist...


35 posted on 04/15/2018 8:48:31 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: G Larry

AD doesn’t stand for After Death but rather Anno Domini, Latin for, “in the year of the Lord”.


38 posted on 04/15/2018 9:20:26 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (If white privilege is real, why do we have millions of poor white people?)
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