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To: abstracTT
i love how these atheists use BCE for dating

"BCE" and "CE" originated with Jews, not atheists.

6 posted on 12/19/2007 12:14:56 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
"BCE" and "CE" originated with Jews, not atheists.

Why would Jews use "Before Christian Era" and "Christian Era" in assigning dates?

/I know, I know....

10 posted on 12/19/2007 12:17:24 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("Hi, My name is Mitt, and I invented the fifty dollar abortion!")
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To: Lurking Libertarian
"BCE" and "CE" originated with Jews, not atheists

I wonder, what event happened to mark the start of the "common era" and the end of the era "before the common era"?

18 posted on 12/19/2007 12:22:22 PM PST by infidel29 (Huckabee is the new Ron Paul..Thompson/Hunter - Hunter/Thompson either works for me.)
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