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To: Tzfat

If you want to abandon reference to Jesus, then you should say it’s the year 2768 - that would be dating from what is thought to be the year Rome was founded. Or it’s the year 1637 — 1637 years since Mohammed’s hegira.

but anyone who says “this is the year 2015” is using the Christian calendar - 2015 years since Christianity began. You can change the terminology to BCE or CE, but you’re still using the Christian dating system, still dating from the time of Christ, not from any other event of significance. So BCE or CE is a fraud - an attempt to deny that you’re doing what you’re doing. An attempt to whitewash Jesus out of history, while still using a date system founded by Christians, based on Christian belief.


108 posted on 05/03/2015 8:05:51 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

You seem to be saying that using other calendars is OK in your world. Well, guess what - everyone that uses the BCE and CE reference is using the Common calendar, and no, not everyone is trying to “obscure” Christian reference (and what again happened in 1 AD that makes you so rabid?).

In the Hebrew calendar the year is 5775. The Julian date is 2457146.5. In the Christian Gregorian calendar it is 2015. In the Common calendar, it is also 2015.

For the past 15 years, I have written calendar software for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch etc. I can tell you, that we have left your BC/AD long ago. You must have a lot of pent up angst to let a little thing like BCE and CE to bother you. You better move on. It is better for your health.


119 posted on 05/04/2015 4:38:03 AM PDT by Tzfat
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