[TheNext]

Didn’t you get the memo that our idiot academic scientists changed BC/AD.

Was:
BC Before Christ
AD After Christ

All Brand New:
CE Christ Era
BCE Before Christ Era

Three cheers for stupid Professors.

[gibsonguy]

Wrong. BCE means before common events. It’s the leftists attempt to remove Christ from the Date specifier.

[piasa]

BCE is for “Before Common Era”

[SunkenCiv]

What you're doing, by bringing it up, is engaging in troll behavior.

[vladimir998]

I agree with your sentiment, but you’re in error here.

B.C.E. does not stand for “Before Christ Era”. It stands for “Before the Common Era”. C.E. stands for “Common Era”.

Obviously what made the era “Common” was the Church, and that was founded by Christ, but the “C” stands for “Common” and not “Christ”.

[fidelis]

AD is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase, anno domini, that is "Year of Our Lord" (i.e., Jesus Christ). Thus AD 2018 means, "the year of Our Lord, 2018."

This is the real reason secularists hate the terms, with the cover story that it is offensive to Jews and others who may not believe in Christ. Most practicing Jews I know are OK with it. Secular Jews, not so much.

[AFreeBird]

No, CE is Common Era; BCE Before Common Era

[Verginius Rufus]

BC = Backwards counting
AD = Advancing dates