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Oh it’s getting so easy to upset the christians these days.
Now there’s a move to replace the use of BC and AD with BCE and CE. Â Not a biggy I wouldn’t have thought. Â It’s bad enough that we mark our years by counting the number of them since the birth of an imaginary figure. Â It’s time to grow up and understand that the world is much bigger than christianity. Â It’s crazy that we count our years this way, and it’s become the main system of counting around the globe. Â Considering that a vast majority of the world doesn’t actually believe in the christian or jewish god1 it seems somewhat arrogant of the likes of Peter Jensen, Archbitme for Sydney to say this:
Intellectually absurd attempt to write Christ out of human history
or the Opposition Liberal wanker and education spokesperson Christopher Pyne:
Kowtowing to political correctness by the embarrassing removal of AD and BC in our national curriculum is of a piece with the fundamental flaw of trying to deny who we are as a people.
How are christians being denied who they are? Â Nobody is trying to write this stupid jesus stuff out of history. What a lot of rot.
When I was at school back in the 1970’s (that’s CE) we were already using BCE and CE, it doesn’t seem to have stopped the catholics from believing this rubbish about god.
I suggest that we start counting the years based on the age of the earth, Â so we’re about 4,550,000,000, next year will be 4,550,000,001. Â Oh, that all sounds way too hard. Â Let’s do it based on the birth of me. Â Then we can have BBL and ABL.
Sounds delightful.