You said (in response to a post asking if anyone else has had the influence that Christ has):
Well, Mohammed, and to a lesser extent Buddha. And that Princip fellow who shot Archduke Ferdinand is pretty much singularly responsible for the current geo-political situation...
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The world, not part of it, but all of it, says that we are living in the year 2006.... A.D. The influence of Christ's life is so pervasive that every day testament is given to it simply by writing down the year in which we are living. In the year of Our Lord. Older dates are referred to as B.C. (forgetting for a moment those PC efforts at calling this the "Common Era" and prior to Christ as BCE (before the common era)-- even those terms center, without saying so, around Christ as the center of time itself).
I readily, and happily, concede that what I believe, I believe by faith. Nevertheless, there is a lot of historical evidence for the life and influence of Jesus Christ. To mention Joseph Smith or Jim Jones in the same paragraph is to elevate them beyond their worth.
I respect the right of those who live without faith to do so, and I also respect their integrity in not simply saying that they believe when they do not. That said, I do hope that those who do not believe in God can looking outside of themselves as well as within themselves to see and feel that there is more than our observable existence to this world.
Oh ye of little education (and probably a government school education at that). Much of the world uses different calendars: