DAMN Woden!!! Why is that God pushed in our faces?

Question

Why the hell do we have to name the third day of our week "WEDNESDAY" after the god Woden??? That's a religious point of view and I won't accept it!!! Damn Nordic beliefs being pushed into my face!!! Rename it "Third day"!!!!

Think that was pathetic? So did I. But, then, why do we need to replace BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini) with BCE and CE (Common Era)??? Why?

Answer 1

Is that.... happening?

Answer 2

A very good point. Political correctness is sometimes taken to far. Personally I think there should be a different way of marking time, but there isn't much sense in calculating an absolute time scale(counting back about 4.6 billion years to the beginning of earth or about 13.7 billion to the start of the universe). Nobody would use it except geologists, just like nobody but physicists use the Kelvin scale for temperature.
Days of the week? I think that the idea of numbering them conflicts with the numbering of the days of the month or the celestial observers practice of numbering the days cumulative from an arbitrary epoch.
How about the names of the months, another fine mess: January for the God Janus, July for Julius Ceasar, April for that cute girl you had a crush on in grade 5.
Yes, I would like to see year 0 established and then year 1 and -1 on either side of it. Why we never count year Zero is beyond me.
When we count ages we start with days adding to months and celebrating at the end of year one. There must be a better way of counting time.

Answer 3

You may not believe in Woden, but Woden believes in you :-)

I use BCE and CE, but I don't try to force anyone else to do it. To me, that's the main difference. It's more inclusive for my non-Christian students, especially those from Asia, many areas of which already have a different year-count altogether.

Answer 4

Most people don't know that the days of our week are named after Norse and other gods and goddesses. However, more people know what BC stands for. It's a move to be more inclusive.

Answer 5

.. and Thursday is named for the Nordic Thor and Friday for Frea.
Saturday for the Roman god Saturn. Sunday and Monday for the Sun and Moon for you Sun worshippers. Lets not even go into the ^$%#%^ months, Janus, Mars, Juno, Julius, Augustus, etc.

We should rename them all for ex presidents -

Washingday
Lincolnday
Rooseday
Bushday
Clintday
Trumday
Eisenday

Answer 6

Don't curse Woden, I used to live there. It's not a bad place

Answer 7

You forget Thursday (Thor's Day), Tuesday (Tyr's Day), Friday (Freyja's Day), Saturday (Saturn's Day)... and of course all the planets are named after Greek and Roman Gods....


Actually, to the above poster, Heathen's go by their own calender based on runes. And all history isn't based on the date Jesus died.

Answer 8

that's o.k. you will understand perfectly less than one second after your last breath..we all have that appointment to keep , and the stat's on death are STILL ONE OUT OF ONE.............YEP! We'll all keep that one,but hopefully,you'll look at the FACTS and ask God if he really is real??????I bet you are afraid to ask .......Go on , just say "God ,if you're there, show me.."

Answer 9

Yes, isn't it wonderful that the heathen have to face the fact that all of history is built around the date that Jesus Christ died on the cross?


Thank you Jesus for arranging it that way!

Answer 10

same reason they switched to metric in most countries

Answer 11

some one stayed awake past his bedtime.