[AnalogReigns]

Not to sound anti-Semitic, but the first time I read about the BCE/CE thing was in an biblical archeological journal....and it appeared they used it so as not to alienate Jewish readers.

I can understand it must be a bit galling for the whole world to use the date of a man’s birth your religion teaches was wrong...

[Tzfat]

it must be a bit galling for the whole world to use the date of a man’s birth your religion teaches was wrong.

Jesus was not born in 1 AD. He was not born any later than 4 BCE, which is a historical fact that Dionysius Exiguus, was unaware of when he devised the system in the Sixth Century.

So, it may just irk people (like me) to use a dating system that incorrectly dates a very important man's birth. It has been between 2,014 to 2,017 years since the birth of Jesus - not 2011.

[cornelis]

Those devious journals. You weren't really taken in, were you? But just in case, don't forget that a world calendar must exorcise both Saturday and Sunday (ex + horkizein to bind by oath, getting rid of what is troublesome and oppressive)--the gods must be voted out, just like they did with Pluto.