Any time I see the letters BCE, I know it is coming from a Christian hating bigot. No other possible reason to use that term.
Not necessarily Christian-hating, it’s just what’s fashionable now in academia. People will take up the fashion without thinking, or because they are afraid of being censured.
Before the Current Era, makes no sense, because the current era is ‘anno domine’.
But then, academics are slaves to fashion...
At any rate the text is very interesting. I wonder what book of the Old Testament it is part of?
It’s very moving that the concern here is with the poor.
What's the problem? BCE just stands for "Before Christian Era." Or at least, so I tell anyone who is adamant about using BCE instead of BC!
Call me a bigot, eh? Look to the mirror!
What exact day and year was Jesus born, and what is your source for that?
“Any time I see the letters BCE, I know it is coming from a Christian hating bigot. No other possible reason to use that term.”
All it means is “Before the Christian Era”. Do I hate Christianity if I simply don’t regard its dating as definitive (Before Christ), but its historical emergence as too significant to ignore? The exact birth year of the child who later became known as “Christ” is not known, merely claimed. His date of death (AD) would have had to been a decade and a half later. If you are a Christian, you take that claim as authoritative, and all power to you. If you are not, you take that claim into account because that is the way that Christians date history, and Christians are too important to ignore, while at the same time registering a modicum of skepticism. “Hatred”? Lighten up. Come on.
This is a story from Haaretz which is an Israeli news agency. It is to be expected that an Israeli news agency would use BCE and CE rather than BC and AD.
When I was in the Seminary, I actually had a Priest as an instructor taht used that term. He wore a Tau cross, and rarely wore his collar, so that tells you which side of the aisle he voted for.