The P.C. police are at it again. This time God is not the target. Today Christ is under fire. Leave it to the scholars to try and change the wording in our dating system. Yes, the dating system that was designed around Christianity and has been going strong for around 2005 years is under attack.

B.C., or Before Christ has been used since Roman times around the same time Constantine converted to Christianity. Dionysius Exiguus, a monk from Russia who died about 544, was asked by Pope John I to set out the dates for Easter from the years 527 to 626. This is where our current B.C., A.D. system originated. 1,463 years later, in 1990, the P.C. police want to change it to B.C.E. or Before Common Era. They want to push the Son out as well as the Father.

A.D., contrary to popular belief, does not stand for After Death. It means Anno Domini, which is Latin for “in the year of the Lord”. It is used to signify the Birth, not the death of Christ. This is the crux of the professorial request to change time. You see, this leaves a lapse of 33 years (due to His lifespan) in history set in limbo. It’s missing time to scientists and they just can’t leave anything out of place. It’s not scientific. The replacement for this, and the time change, is C.E. or Common Era.

I’m rather surprised that they would use this as most professors and scientists will quickly equate CE with the “clear entry” button on the common calculator. Okay, everybody, all together:

Open your MS calculator and see for yourself.

Now that everyone has indulged themselves in taking a peek for yourself, just imagine the fun you could have erasing time…with a simple calculator. Okay, I admit it. That was a lame joke. But isn’t trying to change the structure of our dating system a lame joke as well?

Well maybe, maybe not, this push has been going since the early 1990s and is in select books in the New York state curriculum. It isn’t really used to any function as of yet, and the state testing still uses the biblical referencing system, but it is trying to make a silent insurgence into our school systems. They’re secretly trying to poison our youth into pushing religion out of our lives.

It hasn’t had much success though. Select European countries have made the effort to change time immemorial, but appear to be faltering. Even the politically correct EU is having problems adapting to the new system. Could it be that by simply using the initials you can avoid that nasty religion issue? Could it be that religion in general is refusing the call to atheism? Or could it be that people are already acquainted enough to using the initials that changing the date system is a waste of…umm…time?

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1. Politically correct sucks!

   Comment by Jay — 4/25/2005 @ 10:28 pm

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2. *clap* *clap* *clap*

   No shit, what a stupid little PC project. I gotta say, I think the answer would be that it’s so petty that it IS a waste of everyone’s time and mental energy to have to change it.

   Of all things, if anyone is actually OFFENDED by “B.C.” and “A.D.” then they seriously need to do some introspection and figure out what’s REALLY important in life.

   Life’s too short to whine about BC and AD being politically incorrect. Anyone who sees that as a PROBLEM needs their fuckin’ head examined. (And probably a bitch-slap back into The Real World.)

   Comment by Beth — 4/25/2005 @ 10:32 pm

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3. Gee Beth, thanks for summarizing the post in a more direct manner. My sentiments exactly.

   Comment by Jeremy Bol — 4/25/2005 @ 11:21 pm

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4. Ya know, I’m not even religious and I think this PC BS is going way to far. It pisses me off to no end.

   Great post!

   Comment by ticklebug — 4/26/2005 @ 1:33 am

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5. Thank you.

   Comment by Jeremy Bol — 4/26/2005 @ 1:58 am

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6. New York(AP)-Fifth grader expelled for questioning shift to B.C.E./C.E. time referencing.

   You think it won’t happen?

   I often work with physical anthropologists and evolutionary biologists. (Most of those I know are card-carrying athiests.) They use this B.C.E. crap all the time. Drives me nuts.

   Good post, Jeremy!

   Comment by The MaryHunter — 4/26/2005 @ 4:48 am

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7. I remember when they tried to foist the metric system on the US. How’s that one go?

   Comment by Ogre — 4/26/2005 @ 4:50 am

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8. The metric system in the U.S. is growing by “inches” every year.

   (dude, you set it up. I couldn’t help it.)

   Actually, I was going to try and make a parallel in the article but it didn’t flow very well. Best thing about comments: everything gets covered.

   Comment by Jeremy — 4/26/2005 @ 5:57 am

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9. Hum. Actually, the metric thing never bothered me - it’s a bit more “logical” than cups and pounds and inches. But then, the 10’s multiplication table always was my favorite…. LOL

   The BCE and CE bullsh*t has been around for a while, unfortunately. Also unfortunately, it now appears to be gathering steam.

   *sigh*

   However, it doesn’t annoy me as much as hearing the Holy Spirit referred to as “She” several times just after John Paul II died….. BCE and CE aren’t raping biblical doctrine, but the continuing attack on Judeo-Christian foundations is irritating, frustrating, and increasing. Grrr.

   Romeocat
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   In God we trust. All others, we monitor.

   Comment by Romeocat — 4/26/2005 @ 7:58 am

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10. Total waste of time to try to change this system. Whats the difference? Even if you call it BCE/CE, its still based on when Christ supposedly was born (many scholars think the monk who calculated it all was off by six years) so your basically just calling an apple an orange. Its still an apple though no matter what you call it.

    Metrics is not really a good comparison. Its a different way of measuring things all together and makes much more sense than basing everything off of the length of some long-dead King’s thumb size.

    Comment by KraftyOne — 4/26/2005 @ 9:57 am

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11. What’s next? Add the word Christ to the 7 words you can’t use on television? You all know those words, those dirty dirty words.

    Comment by tomslick — 4/27/2005 @ 1:32 pm

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12. B.C. and A.D.? Academia Says RIP

    A few times recently, I’ve come across essays on the Web concerning ancient history, listing the birth and death years of famous men of the late Roman era followed not with B.C. and A.D., but the letters B.C.E. and C.E….

    Trackback by Ed Driscoll.com — 12/7/2005 @ 2:37 pm

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13. Time system has worked for thousands of years. Now someone (1) wants to start bitching about it because it offended them. So let’s change the whole damn thing for (1) & screw the other billion people on earth. I just don’t get it. Let me see, I want to change evolution teachings in schools that we came from DOGS. I’ll start with filing law suits that I’m black & that I came from a monkey. I’m SO OFFENDED.
    Would this work?? It works with everything else going on.
    sarge

    Comment by sarge — 12/20/2005 @ 11:57 am

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