I understand B.C. and A.D. but what is C.E.?

Answer 1

Hi,,, that is the common era,,,, now time....

good luck

Answer 2

Science did a good job of explaining the difference, and of hitting back at the theocratic bashers. You asked a good question and they have taken it as another opportunity to jump on the soap box and rain fire and brimstone down on everyone before they jump into their Jesus fish cars and ride away into the sunset. Now that I have said that....

C.E. does stand for Common Era and it is synonymous with A.D. However, it can also stand for Christian Era and means the exact same thing. How you use it and address it is up to you, the dates will be the same irregardless.

As others have mentioned, the reason for the change it the recognition that not everyone has the same calendar. It is pretty presumptuous of Westerners to impose our dating system upon say Jewish, Hindu, or Chinese histories. All of these cultures have their own calendars and methods for determining the years. By using the term C.E. rather than AD, we are not disavowing Christ, the Pope, or Buggs Bunny. Rather, we are disavowing ego-centrism and accepting that we are not the only people on the planet, and not even the most important people on the planet.

Answer 3

C.E. means common era, and it's been made up by the anti-God institutions. It is a substitution for A.D. and there are school systems that are changing 2000 years of history to try to be 'politically correct' because they don't want to be reminded that God exists.

Answer 4

C.E. is an abbreviation for 'common era'. It corresponds to the same time span as A.D. . There is also B.C.E. , which is an abbreviation for 'before the common era'. It corresponds to the same time span as B.C. .

In contrast, B.C. and A.D. stand for 'before christ' and 'ano domini ('year of the lord' in latin, meaning after jesus was born)'. C.E. and B.C.E. were created to replace the biased cultist A.D. / B.C. system. It's pathetic what lengths the theocrats will go to to ingrain their blind doctrine into everyone else, LoL. They even project their own behavior and traits onto the atheists (as Jonty, above, has demonstrated), which inadvertantly shows other people that they are well aware how pathetic they themselves are.

Notice that the theocrats libellously falsely portray the atheists as being motivated by denying facts (which is the polar opposite of the truth), because such theocrats enjoy the crude blind pleasurable sensation of disrupting the fine clear truth. Libel is a serious crime. I have reported both libellers to yahoo and requested that they pass on their reports to the police. To learn more about fine clear rightful intent and crude blind wrongful intent (which causes the behavior of truth disruption), go to:
http://www.cotse.net/users/t3nj/ctlg.html
To learn and understand the truthful cosmology, go to:
http://www.cotse.net/users/t3nj/csm.html
Well, congratulations, theocrats. You indulged yourselves in the wrongful crude blind pleasurable sensation of disrupting truth and justice, and in response to that, I have publicized information about your fundamental psychology that is key to beating you, as well as the understandable thorough truthful cosmology that can replace your cosmological falsehood (including that little 'big bang' belief that you created to inject creationism into science). That is the consequence when you choose to disrupt truth.

Answer 5

Common Era is a more appropriate term to use in placing earlier cultures within a historical context. It was taken for granted that dating was understood according to a Christian chronology, however, not all cultures in the world can relate to this and often prefer to use the terms BP 'before the present' of CE a 'common era' so that the dating is not biased towards one particular faith e.g it would not make sense for a non-Christian Chinese history to have Christian dates and is therefore measured according to the line of royal dynasties such as Ming and Ching, which is easily understood.

Answer 6

Common Era. Its a way that scholars or academician classify time. Christians usually use B.C and A.D.

Answer 7

it mean 'common era'. it was an effort by the scientific commmunity to seperate old religious notations like bc and ad. now you will see b.c.e. and c.e. it means the same thing and refers to the same dates (the birth of christ).

Answer 8

Common Era
Its pathetic to what lengths atheists will go in order to deny Jesus Christ, lol

Answer 9

bce means before common era. the politically correct are trying to de-christianize anthing and everything they can. idiots.

Answer 10

CE is current era