Replacement of BC & AD with CE& BCE further erosion of our religious and cultural identity.

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Have you come across articles and documentaries that say CE ( the common era ) and B CE ( before common era ) instead of AD And BC?
Apparently this was introduced in schools in the UK in 2002 and Australia in 2011 is now in widespread use in order to not offend anyone in our country who is not a Christian! What gives anyone the right to errode our cultural and religious heritage, this should have been put up for national debate and not snuck in through the back door without the consent if the population as a whole, to me this just shows the supreme arrogance of the woke mob making decisions on behalf of the nation.
 

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Doesnt bother me. I work in a multi-national, multi-religious environment and we all work around everyone's various calendars. Plus there's always some holiday to celebrate :)

Working for an Israeli company at one point was pretty darned interesting. We'd cover for our Jewish folks during Passover and the high holidays, they returned the favor for ours. April 13th was the Thai New Year, so why would they use Before Christ and Anno Domini?
 
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Have you come across articles and documentaries that say CE ( the common era ) and B CE ( before common era ) instead of AD And BC?
Apparently this was introduced in schools in the UK in 2002 and Australia in 2011 is now in widespread use in order to not offend anyone in our country who is not a Christian! What gives anyone the right to errode our cultural and religious heritage, this should have been put up for national debate and not snuck in through the back door without the consent if the population as a whole, to me this just shows the supreme arrogance of the woke mob making decisions on behalf of the nation.
That usage is older than you indicate here, and yes it does seem to be based upon the irrational avoidance of anything that's recognizably Christian.

Yet the use of BCE and CE has always struck me as a bit goofy anyway, since both BCE and CE--Before the Common Era and (Of) the Common Era, respectively--use the same dates as does the older BC-AD system, and those were set according to what was thought to be the year of Jesus Christ's birth (1 AD)!
 
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Doesnt bother me. I work in a multi-national, multi-religious environment and we all work around everyone's various calendars. Plus there's always some holiday to celebrate :)

Working for an Israeli company at one point was pretty darned interesting. We'd cover for our Jewish folks during Passover and the high holidays, they returned the favor for ours. April 13th was the Thai New Year, so why would they use Before Christ and Anno Domini?
Absolutely understandable when you work in a multi- national, multi religious environment, in which case tailor your language to suit your world, but my objection is that a small minority in the uk are dictating the language and ideology to a society which is proportionally different to itself, ie, the larger part should not be adapting to suit the smaller part, and multicultural inner city life in the UK does not represent the rest if the country as a whole, however it has been dictating terms to the rest of the UK for far too long, the results of which are only ever manifested in election results.
We are an historically Christian society / country, which is as much a cultural as a religious identity, if you start to chip away at that identity where does it stop?
By removing BC and AD is almost apologetic for being Christian! Would you expect your wife to cover her head in case it offends your Muslim neighbour?
And if you think it's OK to water down our culture in case it offends other cultures living in our country, then do you think it should be a 2 way street? Should Muslims, Buddhist, Jews ect living in the UK change their terminology in case it offends us? I would say not, but I would not expect to go and live in any other country for no matter how many generations and expect them to change their culture to suite me.
 
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Most people off the street couldn't tell you that AD stands for Animo Domino anyway. Even if that wasn't true, why should our common secular calendar be based on a (wrong) date for the birth of Jesus?
I think most people on the street would be able to tell you that BC means before Christ, at least those who are old enough to be familiar with the term which will become fewer and fewer now it has been dropped, and will no doubt disappear forever as secularism and other religions and cults have an increasing grip on our society, AD and BC were probably the only nods left to our identity as a Christian society amongst the secularists, even our own Christian community it seems are willing to let the word Christ fall out of common usage in order to appease the God of woke.
 
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Absolutely understandable when you work in a multi- national, multi religious environment, in which case tailor your language to suit your world, but my objection is that a small minority in the uk are dictating the language and ideology to a society which is proportionally different to itself, ie, the larger part should not be adapting to suit the smaller part, and multicultural inner city life in the UK does not represent the rest if the country as a whole, however it has been dictating terms to the rest of the UK for far too long, the results of which are only ever manifested in election results.
We are an historically Christian society / country, which is as much a cultural as a religious identity, if you start to chip away at that identity where does it stop?
By removing BC and AD is almost apologetic for being Christian! Would you expect your wife to cover her head in case it offends your Muslim neighbour?
And if you think it's OK to water down our culture in case it offends other cultures living in our country, then do you think it should be a 2 way street? Should Muslims, Buddhist, Jews ect living in the UK change their terminology in case it offends us? I would say not, but I would not expect to go and live in any other country for no matter how many generations and expect them to change their culture to suite me.

Its really a matter of convention. Even with working for an Israeli company, we used the Christian / common era. We weren't trying to adapt to Jewish standards, even though we had mezzuzahs on the front door. I wasn't offended at that. I've worked with Muslims, Sikhs, pagans, atheists (one who bought me one of my favorite icons when he was in Tel Aviv). I've been using BCE/CE for several decades now as I got used to it when I was taking religious classes in college. As for being a minority, talk to some Egyptian Copts. They tend to get along with their Muslim majority except when it comes to radical Islamic elements who blow up churches. They certainly are using the Muslim calendar for daily life.

Is your faith in Christ based on Him or on a calendar or culture?
 
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Christians being fed to lions, burned alive as torches.

But the real persecution was changing BC and AD to "BCE and CE", because American Christians sure tend to have tissue paper-thin skin.
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Christians being fed to lions, burned alive as torches.

But the real persecution was changing BC and AD to "BCE and CE", because American Christians sure tend to have tissue paper-thin skin.
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The OP is British though. You know, from one of the few countries that has an established church.
 
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When you get right down to it, using CE and BCE instead of AD and BC is simply yet another way that our world denies the impact of Christ on humanity. People can excuse it all day long, but that's what it boils down to.
really? What else would you like to preserve (or introduce) to demonstrate this? I mean, how often do people even use these letters? If I write a check, I simply write MM/DD/YY. I don't add an AD onto the end.
 
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When you get right down to it, using CE and BCE instead of AD and BC is simply yet another way that our world denies the impact of Christ on humanity. People can excuse it all day long, but that's what it boils down to.

The use of AD and BC is just another way in which Christians ignore the impact the rest of the world had on humanity.
 
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The use of AD and BC is just another way in which Christians ignore the impact the rest of the world had on humanity.
If you are a Christian (since this is the Christians only section), why would you be encouraging people to ignore Christ's impact on the world, and instead be promoting the world's view?
 
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