Both excellent ideas!
I think that their recent realization that they are losing the cultural war (for many reasons including their sacrifice of their own progeny to material greed) has driven to utter loathing expressed through pathetic bile and hatred.
But for me, yes, I plan to spin it as Christian Era as much as possible. The truth is, what else could the start of 1 CE possibly refer to except for the birth of Jesus Christ?
These people are such pathetic losers.