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"CE"? Ahh, Christ Era, what a weird spelling though. Isn't it "AD" (Anno Domini) usually?
by n00b_heal 2y ago
"CE"? Ahh, Christ Era, what a weird spelling though. Isn't it "AD" (Anno Domini) usually?
- ivvve 2y agoCommon Era, a secular alternative to BC and AD. BCE is "before the common era", and CE is "common era". I suppose it kind of grandfathers in BC and AD, but I always find it funny that it happens to centre the birth of Jesus anyway.
- defrost 2y agoWell, epoch'd to Dionysius Exiguus's best guess as to the date of birth some five hundred and twenty odd years later ...
- triceratops 2y agoAD is Latin but BC is English. And Anno Domini means "Year of Our Lord" which is objectionable to non-believers. AC and BC would've been more symmetrical and less problematic. CE and BCE is fine too.
- whis-kiss 2y agoCmon. BC and AD are normal and accepted. Let's stop using Sunday thru Saturday cuz those relate to Norse religions. Im certainly not calling u one or saying your post does anything wrong. Just pointing out this is why the internet atheists gave the rest of us such a bad rap. Championing stuff that is thinly veiled anti-christian is a bad faith motive, divisive, confusing, and demeaning of tradition that didn't need changing. If the years were different numbers, different story.
- triceratops 2y agoIsn't it blasphemy for someone to say Christ is "our" Lord if they aren't Christian? How am I being "anti-christian"? Who's being divided or demeaned? I even said "AC" i.e. "After Christ" would've been an acceptable substitute and had the advantage of matching "Before Christ" which is in English. AD and BC is a mishmash of English and Latin that always struck me as weird. The academic world settled on CE and BCE instead. I don't care. It's unimportant. > Let's stop using Sunday thru Saturday cuz those relate to Norse religions Does using any of those names imply that you believe Odin is the All-father?