Stop with the BCE stuff already. It’s “BC”.
I agree.
BCE=Before Christian Era
CE=Christian Era
Problem solved.
You’re welcome.
A lot of local standards get modified when they become more widely used. Do you also object to the use of UCT in place of GMT?
The wide use of the BCE/CE abbreviations stated with Jewish intellectuals about 100 years ago. Particularly in the sciences. It was already widely used when I was in college in the 1970s.
Do you really expect the Chinese (all one billion of them) to use an abreviation that means "in the year of our Lord" in latin a dead language?
It seems like a small accomodation. We (the West) won the world-wide. Battle of Calendars. Christians "won" in the sense the start date is set as Christ's birth year,at least calculated by the Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus in 525 A.D.
It turns out he probably got the date wrong.
Dionysius never recorded how he decided on the date of Jesus Christ’s birth. Some scholars think he used astrological signs, while others believe he based his assertion on the Bible. The gospels don’t necessarily agree on that date, though, with the Gospel of Matthew noting that Jesus was born when Herod the Great, who died in 4 BCE, was in power, while the Gospel of Luke notes the birth was when Quirinius was governor of Syria around 6 CE. What we do know, however, is that Dionysius was successful in promoting his timeline, and it became the standard used to this day.
Given all this perhaps you will be less angry about people using the BCE/CE terms.
(P.S. Are you a Roman Catholic? Seeing as a latin speaking Christian monk invented the A.D. suffix and another English monk invented the B.C. suffix in 731, that would make sense.)
Conversely, it seems like an odd hill for any Protestant or Orthodox Christian to fight for. The Orthodox, rejecting the authorority of the Bishop of Rome (the self-styled "Pope") never adopted the Gregorian calendar, and stick with the original one created by Julius Ceaser, which is why their Easter and Christmas are 12 days later. And the protesting reformers like Luther rejected much of the tradition of the Catholics, including the inclusion and ordering of the books of the Bible.
Given all that is BC to BCE really that big a deal?
I simply pasted what was on the page. I've noticed that in the religious and political spheres, people tend to become rattled over something, anything. When a source is guilty of some kind of "wrongthink", the offended have a reason to read no further.
What does that even mean besides blasphemy?