Posted on 03/11/2009 6:02:01 PM PDT by SJackson
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Vandalized? Gee who would do a thing like that to a historical Christian sight? Uh shoot, doggone if i would hazzard a guess...LOL.
Grrrrr!
Christ Era
4200-4400 if you prefer.
Disgruntled youth.
could it be the A-M-I-S-H?
You know, the Middle Eastern A-M-I-S-H?
Good one, no matter how hard they try, it won't work. BCE can be Before Christ's Era, anything to remind people of the One who divided time, Jesus Christ. They can't get around it.
20 years from now some kid will ask. When did the CE start? How they going to answer that one?
Same here...that would be AD not “common era”.
I do find a comfort in the fact that a farm had sprung up on the area, somehow people being fed reminds one of the way things should be.
But if that gags some folks, then I'd prefer they use the Jewish Calendar ... for honesty's sake.
The recent fad of attempting to deChristianize the Christian calendar is both stupid and dishonest.
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Must be the Joooos again!
I generally do too, other than when someone is forcing the issue, the meaning of AD carries no significance to me and I don't consider it an expression of faith. I've noted those who complain the loudest, often have the least interest in the underlying concept. I'll note that there's been criticism here on FR both for using the Hebrew calendar (the JP does along with the Gregorian) and the hyphenated G-d spelling, since we're an English speaking country. To the extant that CE/BCE is used to "deny" Christianity, which I suspect isn't all that much, thats kind of silly.
I first noticed CE/BCE cropping up just over 20 years ago. At the time, it appeared to be motivated by anti-intellectualism (AD is Latin) and a vague desire to dechristianize the calendar. I note that international engineering journals (see, for example, any publication of the IEEE) use bote SI and SAE units. It seems to me that publications which appeal to both Jews and Christians could likewise use both the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars ... and then label the Gregorian year "AD" without offending anybody.
Id probably attribute it to a desire to secularize the fields, which isnt ani-Christian but has the same impact not just for Christianity but all religions. Though I noted I usually use AD, only when there might be some confusion. In this case Id simply say 5th or 6th century, the time frame being obvious. For those very few who view it as a religious invocation, Id view their non-use as a matter of respect, but I suspect thats rare. But its a shame when CE/BCE becomes the issue, rather than the Church being excavated.
". I don't agree with such criticism. I also don't agree with the necessity of leaving out the "o". It seems (to me) to border on pecksniffery, but in our profane and coarse culture complaint about "excessive reverence" seems (to me) to be misplaced.
Its usually misunderstood as a prohibition against writing the name, actually its a Commandment against destruction, citation below, my bold. Most Rabbis dont apply the prohibition to the internet, but its not physically written to avoid the possibility of destruction of the document, thus the name. In serious publications, prayer book translations and such, youll find God, as you will in serious articles. In a casual note likely to be thrown out, G-d would be more appropriate, and some people use in in all instances, including electronic, given the possibility of printing content on paper. Even in that case, the transgression would be that of the reader/printer, not the author.
Deuteronomy 12:3-43. And you shall tear down their altars, smash their monuments, burn their asherim with fire, cut down the graven images of their gods, and destroy their name from that place
4. You shall not do so to the Lord, your God.
BTW, the Chapter/Verse notations are a largely Christian device, now used in most Jewish texts, including Hebrew.
Anyone who is a student of Elohim's Holy Word knows The use of the term AD is an insult to the loving G-d AD is Latin for year of the lord.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
that YHvH who created the universe would be offended
to think that the first 4000 years was rejected.
who created this time-space continuum for us.
I think you're wrong.
As usual.
Good Day.
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