“BCE” and “CE” are just plain stupid.
No, it’s worse than stupid. It’s a calculated, insidious attempt to de-Christianize our civilization, by denying that our civilization uses a calendar that dates years from when (it was originally thought) that Christ was born. We’re in the year 2015 by the Christian calendar, i.e. 2015 years since Jesus originally was thought to be born. In contrast, in the Chinese calendar it’s the year 4,045 (or round abouts), because they don’t start with Jesus. The Muslims have a different year-counting method too. the West counts from the time of Jesus — but the PC crowd want to deny that by substituting CE and BCE (but still use the Christian calendar counting of 2015)
Yes, thats it exactly.
Progressives find Christ and any formalized societal reference to him offensive. They’re attempting to secularize the numbering schema, without understanding that use of BC can actually be secular; one doesn’t have to believe in Christ as the Messiah/Son of God or be Christian to understand that he and the rise of Christianity represented a major historical breakpoint in human history where it’s easy to differentiate what came before from what came after.
The funny thing is that use of BC (Before Christ) is, ironically, more secular than AD (Anno Domini/Year of Our Lord). The former being a neutral historical mile marker while the latter has a definite religious context.