[Varda]

CE and BCE are obnoxious artifacts of anti-Christian sentiment. The same people who change AD into CE wouldn't dream of altering the meaning of other dating systems. In archaeological circles there are dating methods in common use that don't slander anyone's religiously based dating systems.

BP (before present; present = 1950) has been in use for many years. Under this system 66 AD is the same as 1884 BP.

[LTCJ]

CE and BCE are obnoxious artifacts of anti-Christian sentiment.

God forbid they should have to deal with the elephant in the room, that being, the event that set the demarcation.

[Duke of Milan]

"CE and BCE are obnoxious artifacts of anti-Christian sentiment...."

Exactly. The world doesn't just hate Christians, in truth they hate Jesus Christ and they try to erase, disparage or rewrite anything that refers to Him. This also reminds me of what someone said about the Jesus Seminar: "They think if they vote enough times God will resign."

[dangus]

That system seems to FURTHER move away from being Christocentric. At least CE recognizes something significant occurred. BP is absurd. Why pick 1950? BKW? (Before the Korean War?) No-one is gonna want to translate all their dates. (In BP four hundred and fifty-eight, Columnus sailed the oceans great? The spirit of 174? The San Francisco 101ers? The Summer of 19?)

Sorry, BC and AD is stayes, but I won't complain if some rabbis wanna use BCE and and CE. Yeah, I will get irked when "Christian" biblical scholars use those terms, but I do like knowing who my enemies are. >:^)

[BlackVeil]

BP (before present; present = 1950) has been in use for many years. Under this system 66 AD is the same as 1884 BP.

Is that a joke? Are you trying to wind us up?