[BenKenobi]

I’m a history major, this has been going on for some time now, at least 15 years.

I teach using BC and AD - and this garbage has pissed me off enough that I’m going to teach it again in tonight’s class.

[manc]

every class or speech I give now I make it known AD BC .

There is no way on this earth I will go along with this but I have to ask you and that is where you are do you find most history teachers, professors more on the conservative side unlike say science teachers which are usually spaced out liberals?

[BenKenobi]

For everyone who wants to learn how the calendar came about Dominus Exiguus was the very first to switch over to our current calendar.

Prior, all calendars were dated to Ab Urbe Condita -”from the founding of the City”, ie, Rome.

There’s a discreprency of about 200 years between Ab Urbe Condita and the Jewish Calendars that has yet to be resolved.

Teaching BCE + CE is just bad history! Every history teacher should be taught and teaching that the current system was set up by Dominus Exiguus! That is why it is BC and AD, Before Christ and “Anno Domini”, year of our Lord.

[Tzfat]

I’m a history major, this has been going on for some time now, at least 15 years.

A lot longer. Archeology has used CE and BCE for at least 30 years. This predates "PC" - but let's not confuse the people with the pitchforks. Frankly, if most of the posters on this thread only knew, there are scores of dating systems used by scholars that make no reference to anno domini - so at least keeping CE and BCE is a nod to the Roman Catholic dating system.