Thanks vannrox.
Posted on 01/04/2019 1:43:21 AM PST by vannrox
>>What’s with the “CE” bull$hit? I thought that stuff was stopped years ago.
It’s an article about the Jewish uprising. As far as the Jews are concerned, we are still BC, as they are still awaiting the Messiah/Christ.”
Ok, but whether you say AD or CE, its still the Christian calendar, which turns on the year that (its originators thought ) was the year Christ was born. So changing to “CE” changes nothing. If we’re going to get away from the Calendars connection to Christ, you have to adopt a different calendar altogether, such as the Chinese calendar , in which this is the year 4716
Calling the current year 2019 connects us with Christ, no matter what word games (or initial games) are played to try to hide it
Using CE to try to get Christ out of the Western calendar is futile, and looks like silly PC
whether you say AD or CE, its still the Christian calendar, which turns on the year that (its originators thought ) was the year Christ was born. So changing to “CE” changes nothing. If we’re going to get away from the Calendars connection to Christ, you have to adopt a different calendar altogether, such as the Chinese calendar , in which this is the year 4716
Calling the current year 2019 connects us with Christ, no matter what word games (or initial games) are played to try to hide it
>>>Using CE to try to get Christ out of the Western calendar is futile
Yet, look at the number of posts on this thread that claim use of CE does exactly that.
the Western Calendar is a Christian calendar by definition. It dates time from Christ’s birth. Using the initials CE doesn’t change that, and only looks like classic PC - which I define as a determined strategy to avoid the obvious
There’ll be a lot of chagrined people at the Final Judgement.
“If we’re going to get away from the Calendars connection to Christ, you have to adopt a different calendar altogether, such as the Chinese calendar , in which this is the year 4716”
Sure, and really, every calendar on earth is based on some religious or nationalistic agenda. So if you really want some neutral calendar, you would have to invent a whole new one. Or maybe adopt one from some civilization that is already extinct so we can’t be favoring them.
We could use the calendar devised by the Khmer Rouge, the Communist rulers of Cambodia, in which 1975 is the year 0, or the Italian Fascist calendar in which 1922 is the year 1.
Read about Silva’s siege of Masada. His first action was to surround the fortress, so that no one would escape. None did.
It is Cultural Marxism:
They stole a timeline based upon the person of Jesus Christ and renamed it to something generic and secular; they did nothing else.
It is exactly like stealing Christmas break and calling it Holiday break: generic and secular.
Leftists live to usurp and subvert.
There are a three well done siege-of-Jerusalem animations on Youtube. Still waiting for Part 4 to be made.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hen0wmoj5RU
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdE3xz_G4pA
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywrNNgFVz4
Thanks vannrox.
I seem to recall that in the previous decade there was a consensus here on Free Republic to ignore the issue of BC/AD vs. BCE/CE. It was a distraction that was diverting attention away from the article under discussion to a topic that would never be resolved. Some authors use one system, others use the other, and we all know what they mean. I guess this consensus has broken down?
Very enjoyable SF series about a couple from the present time-traveling to Jerusalem 57 AD and stranded there for the entire revolt.
City of God series by Randy Ingermanson :
Transgression, Premonition, and Retribution
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XLYWL2W/ref=series_rw_dp_sw
The first book, Transgression, is free for Kindle or kindle app.
It’s an article about the Jewish uprising. As far as the Jews are concerned, we are still BC, as they are still awaiting the Messiah/Christ.
I WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS . . . NOW I KNOW . . . MAKES SENSE
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