Australia Strikes Christ's Birth as History Marker

www.CBN.com ^ | September 6, 2011 | CBNNews.com

[Ravnagora]

Australian history books will no longer use Jesus' birth as a reference point for dates, to the outrage of some religious and political leaders.

Under new government curriculum, the terms BC, translated "Before Christ," and AD, translated "The Year of Our Lord," will be replaced with neutral, non-religious language.

The land down under will now use the politically correct BCE and CE, meaning "Before Common Era" and "Common Era" respectively.

The terms are popular in academic and scientific publications.

Archbishop of Sydney Peter Jensen has condemned the move, calling it an "intellectually absurd attempt to write Christ out of human history."

Christopher Pyne, with Australia's Liberal National Party, also criticized the decision.

"Australia is what it is today because of the foundations of our nation in the Judeo-Christian heritage that we inherited from Western civilization," he said.

"Kowtowing to political correctness by the embarrassing removal of AD and BC in our national curriculum is of a piece with the fundamental flaw of trying to deny who we are as a people," he added.

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[ArrogantBustard]

There are many who believe that AD anno domini would suggest that the Roman "church" created their god to have not existed before the birth of Yah'shua(Jesus).

BWAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

"Many" ????

ROFL!

Those "many" are a far sillier and stupider bunch, and far more removed from reality, than these CE/BCE idiots in Aussieland.

[Uri’el-2012]

Uri'el>There are many who believe that AD anno domini would suggest that the Roman "church" created their god to have not existed before the birth of Yah'shua(Jesus).

Gosh, that sure is interesting, Uri’el-2012. There are many things in this world that I don't know (more things that I don't know than I do, come to think of it) but --- in my many decades of life, I have never met even ONE person so foolish as to think that "Roman" "Church" people don't believe God to have existed before Jesus.

That would take a truly eye-rolling level of ignorance.

And you say there are "many" who are thus abysmally uninformed?

Could you name two or three?

Anyone who reads the Holy WORD and believes it.

There is only ONE YHvH; Yah'shua said so in Mark 12:29

YHvH is our Elohim and he is ONE.

YHvH is the creator of the universe.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[Oztrich Boy]

Maybe, but it'll be the twelfth of never before Australians are prohibited from praying at military funerals

[ArrogantBustard]

Don’t expect a straight answer from The Unprintable One.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you, my dear Bustard. I should have known.

[exDemMom]

Dang, I was about to say that.

[Ro_Thunder]

I use

Before Christ Entered
Christ Enters

But that’s just to annoy idiots.

[pgyanke]

and just when does “Common Era” start?

That's what I ask them too...

[Uri’el-2012]

Those "many" are a far sillier and stupider bunch, and far more removed from reality, than these CE/BCE idiots in Aussieland.

BCE/CE is a notation used by Educated people.

BC/AD is insisted on by the Pagan Roman "church"
created at Nicaea by the Pagan Roman Pontiff :
Constantine.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[ArrogantBustard]

BCE/CE is a notation used by Educated people self-righteous pinheads.

There.

Fixed it for ya.

Yer welcome.

[Uri’el-2012]

Fixed it for ya. Yer welcome.

Clearly a self-identified Twit

[ArrogantBustard]

Clearly, anyone who thinks that the “Pagan Roman Pontiff:
Constantine” “created” the “Pagan Roman ‘church’” at Nicea does identify himself as a twit.

[allmendream]

Idiotic as they are still marking the years from the time of Christ.

Sort of like saying “We are breaking from Rome by no longer calling it the 350th year from the founding of the Republic. We now call it the 350th year of the ‘common era’.”

Great.