Atheists. Does it bother you at all to be on the Christian calender?

Question

And whats your view on the fact the current year is counted as 2007 years since Jesus was born?

Re.: Norse Gods. Ivar is actually a original Viking name and my ancestry is straight from Norse Vikings. "We" stopped worshiping "our" mythological Gods about 1000 years ago and built "our" first Christian church over 800 years ago.

Never the less, it does fascinate me that "our" original Gods are still being "worshiped".

Answer 1

It's just a way to document time. It bothers me no more than the expression of opening pandoras box to symbolize trouble.

Does it bother you every time you turn the light on that an atheist invented it? Every time you go to the doctor an atheist created vaccination? Practically all science was made from atheists and heretics? That the discovery of mostly everything in our world we now know it as today is by atheists? That there are many atheist politicians?

What a fearful world it'd be if we were afraid of atheist and their crazy ideals.

Answer 2

If you can tolerate a calendar whose months celebrate Roman gods and emperors and whose days celebrate Norse gods then I can tolerate the fact that it was named for a pope.

As far as BC/AD, since Christians acknowledge that Jesus was not born at the start of 1 AD, the terms are inaccurate and BCE and CE are the accurate terms.

Go in peace to love and serve the truth.

Answer 3

someone had to make it, and the catholic clerics were the most educated people at the time. At least unlike other calendars before it, there aren't any days NOT in it. Most calendars had a group of anywhere from 3 to 15 days left over a the end because they were based on things like the moon cycle, or the tides, or something else that didn't account for the rotation of the earth around the sun.

Answer 4

I am totally indifferent to the nature of the calendar so long as it is a useful tool for reckoning. And the correct name for our current calendar year is 2007 CE (Common Era). Of course, it is not 2007 years since Jesus was born (assuming that he existed at all -- the matter is subject to debate); the consensus view was that he was born sometime in the range of 6 to 4 BCE.

Answer 5

Well, the actual calendar (months, weeks, etc.) is Roman. The days of the week are Norse. So why not have a Christian year? I like diversity.

Answer 6

Actually the calender is not totally Christian. I mean heck, Augustus Caesar was jealous that his brother Julius, named a month after himself. That's why we have A July and August. Besides that, our calendar is more rooted in Egyptian and Greek science than anything else.

Answer 7

Huh? Do we get special holidays?

As for 2007 being 'the year of our lord' (notice people dont say that anymore) he wasnt born in year 1 - and I'm as upset about using that calender as I expect you're upset about using days of the week named after NORSE Gods.

Answer 8

Gotta be on one calendar or other. Using the Christian one doesn't make me believe there's a god. And even the Christians didn't get the date right... so really we're using the "When Christ was 4" calendar. How does that help?

Answer 9

Doesn't bother me. You can't measure time anyway. Besides the calendar has been changed several times in the past 2000 years and is not entirely accurate anymore.

Answer 10

LOL - I didn't realize I was. So obviously I couldn't care less. I think it's rather silly - I think time should just continue, not repeat itself over and over. Why not just say 2 days from now or whatever? But I digress.

I don't care in the least.