[achilles2000]

The CE and BCE designations are being used for no other reason than to eliminate references to Christ in our culture. These absurd designations were not in common use until relatively recently, but if someone was using them 100 years ago - and I am sure if that is the case that the examples are few and far between - the motivation was the same. And, yes, it is the Gramscians and their postmodern friends who have been pushing this among publishers.

[Kenny Bunk]

Having been born in 1930 A.D.D., I shall never use he newfangled notations, for two reasons: (1) I can never remember them.
and (2) I have nothing in Common with people from the Era in which they have become fashionable.