I don’t use it for that reason. However, many Christians are offended when BCE is used instead of BC and AD, even thoughthat construct was first used by Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th Century Rome. I use it as a reference because much of the later research used it as a reference point, and I don’t waste time trying to overcome butt hurt by folks who think it is a matter of faith.
Dionysius Exiguus in the 6th Century Rome created the construct AD anno Domini, ie “year of Our Lord”
It was only in 1856, Jewish scholar Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall explicitly popularized the specific abbreviations BCE and CE in his historical writings. This allowed Jewish academics to write about history using the standard global calendar without utilizing titles that explicitly proclaimed Jesus as “the Lord