Have you noticed that it's not BC anymore, it's officially BCE now?

Question

They did away with having the years be Before Christ, and now it's Before Current Era. And it's no longer After Death, it's Current Era. This is obviously for politically correct reasons.
Do you think more people have realized that there is the possiblity that religion is just folkglore?

sorry, I didn't know it was anno domini.

yes, I celebrate Xmas

Answer 1

And I suppose you celebrate Xmas not Christmas

Answer 2

Wrong on several points.

Old tradition: AD stands for 'Anno Domini', Latin for 'In the year of the lord'.

BCE/CE in the new style is 'Common Era', not 'Current Era', as determined by usage (39 million ghits vs. 3K ghits for 'Current Era')

Furthermore, using BC/AD is making a claim about the existence and divinity of Jesus, as well as a claim about when he was born.

If he did not exist, it makes sense not to use BC/AD.
If he did exist, it's almost certain he was not born in 1 AD, but rather a few years before.
Beyond this, AD makes the claim that he was divine, which many people do not accept and seems to be outside the purview of responsible scientific study.

Answer 3

AD Never stood for "After Death". That is a misnomer. Until recently, it has always been Anno Domini. And BCE is actually Before "Common" Era.

Answer 4

A.D. DOESN'T stand for after death. It stands for Anno Domini---Latin for Year of the Lord.

CE and BCE are not religion-specific and MUCH more appropriate for a world that includes so many calendars and religions that a christian designation to the year is absurd.

CE and BCE are a good compromise, seeing as the years themselves are still numbered according to BC and AD.

Answer 5

If Jesus was a living breathing person, scientists have actually concluded that he was not born exactly 2007 years ago this Dec. 25th, but actually 4 or 5 years before then. Now the year "0" is just considered the transition from one era to the other (and because our world does not directly revolve around Christ and the Church but the SUN for some of those people who still beleive in an Earth centered system) because it makes for less confusion.

Answer 6

Ummm.....it's been BCE (and CE) for a very, very long time for us Jews - centuries even. We've always had that among our OWN community, never brought it out to the rest of society as common usage for there, or for anyone but us.

Don't know who ELSE has taken it and is using it now, but I'd say take it up with them as to why they are doing it.

Since we aren't the only ones who don't believe that Jesus was the real Messiah, it could be just about anyone but Christians who is doing it now. Atheists? Muslims? Buddhists? Hindus? People who count themselves as "spiritual but not religious"?

Answer 7

ad actually stood for anno domini year of our lord in latin

and they changed it to bce and ce for a while now

Answer 8

Academics have been using BCE and CE for the last 20 years at least.

Answer 9

i think that is so retarded (no offense)
i'm still using BC even tho my history book now says BCE
by the way, it's not after death, it's something else like anno dominnio (don't know the spelling) which means "in the year of our Lord"

Answer 10

It was never After death, it was Anno Domini.

And it was fanatical atheists that got it changed. People who aren't content to let well enough alone. What did BC or AD hurt anyone, do I dare to ask? I mean i don't really care either way, but that someone actually gave it enough thought ot get it changed ires me...