Posted on 11/18/2004 10:39:06 AM PST by .cnI redruM
You believe that, and I don't. It would be unreasonable of you to expect me to use your nomenclature, and it would be wrong, even hypocritical, for me to do so, because I do not acknowledge Jesus as my Lord. I encourage Christians to use "BC/AD", becuase it is appropriate for them to do so. It is equally inappropriate for someone who is not Christian to use it. One could make the argument that using the terminology without believing what it says is the real diminution of its significance.
You believe that, and I don't.
You're naive.
It would be unreasonable of you to expect me to use your nomenclature, and it would be wrong, even hypocritical, for me to do so, because I do not acknowledge Jesus as my Lord.
You are in the minority. There is no reason for textbooks to adopt this meaningless, minority nomenclature unless they're writing for non-Christians --or unless they're promoting an agenda.
No, I'm just not a Christian. Since, as a Jew, I don't believe that Jesus is moshiach, let alone "Lord", it would be wrong for me to use the terms "Before Christ" or "The Year of Our Lord". I understand the significance of Jesus's birth to Christians, but I don't share your beliefs.
There is no reason for textbooks to adopt this meaningless, minority nomenclature
That determination is properly left up to the author and/or publisher.
You go, dude.
Fine. Use the Jewish calendar. But again, it's ridiculous for textbook publishers to impose a meaningless minority nomenclature on the majority. If I lived in Israel I wouldn't expect to impose a Christian calendar on the culture or neuter their calendar.
Nice article!
Yup, and it's a darned shame. Jefferson got us away from the braindead mixed base money system, and tried to move us to a decimal measurement system of his own design, but Congress didn't act, and so we're stuck with the equally braindead imperial measurement system, with units based on dead kings' feet or arms or whatever.
Only if you're a C programmer. :) Honest. If you started with zero, you'd think collections have one fewer element than they actually do.
As long as I live, I will never use BCE/CE when dating material. Either I'll use nothing or I'll use BC/AD.
The ICR's etymology is every bit as good as their science; that is to say, not at all. I'm sorry, that's as bogus as the etymologies that Afrocentric crackpot came up with to "prove" that the Greek gods were African in origin.
Actually I think that probably goes to political science profs. I had some really good history professors when I was at Texas A&M but the department also had its token jerk who I was unlucky enough to have to deal with for one semester.
Our present system may be anachronistic, but it's ours...I simply did not like the way the Metric System was being forced down our throats. It was just too European Union-esque fer me.
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