And what event cause this break in time? Before the Current Era is before the birth of ??? This PC business is going to lots of trouble to achieve nothing, even for the idiotic PC crowd.
It really is more historically accurate to use BCE and CE, as the year count doesn't relate to any significant person's birth year. So, to reckon it as the start date of the common calendar or common era is not just politically correct, it's factual.
This is a story from an Israeli newspaper. Jews use the BCE/CE dating system.
It is extremely rare in Israel to ever see BC and AD used to date anything.
I agree, I was gonna mention that. It disgusts me. I am fine with B.C. and A.D.
I am so sick of CE being shoved down our throats.
See, Jews don't believe in Jesus as the messiah so they don't use BC and AD. In fact, the Jewish calander is at 5767 I believe. This is not PC but how Israel dates things. CE is Common Era and BCE is Before Common Era.
"Well that journalism update didn't take long to take hold. Amazing how far PC will go to eliminate religion from history."
Indeed? This is an Israeli news source, you see. They don't do Christ. While they have their own calendar, but in most situations, use BCE and CE to designate the year.
I think you rather jumped the gun on this one, without putting on your thinking cap.
I use BCE and CE in my history papers.
I am certainly no liberal and hate political correctness. But, it is likely that Jesus was not born exactly in the year AD 1 that we have anyway, so it seems to me to not really be getting rid of God, but just being historically accurate.
However, I do use AD and BC in other discourse since I like saying before Christ and in the year of our lord and shoving it in people's faces.
So so much for Before Christ, which is now Before the Common Era, and Anno Domini/in the year of our Lord to the Common Era.
We are reaping the whirlwind.