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To: discostu
culturally neutral

anther term for PC anti-Christian balderdash. Let me know when you start using different names for the weekdays since they pay homage to Norse gods. We wouldn't want to OFFEND anyone, dontcha know.

109 posted on 09/28/2011 2:41:04 AM PDT by Hacksaw (I don't hate Mormons. Is that okay?)
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To: Hacksaw

Way to selectively edit. A label that’s been around for 400 years isn’t PC. Anybody offended by calendar labeling, ANY calendar labeling, is a complete idiot. The only anybody dumber is the person changing labels to avoid offending. BCE and CE were NOT created to avoid offense, they were created to discuss cultures for which BC and AD were not culturally relevant with people who didn’t know that culture well enough to use the “proper” local labeling. That is their purpose, that has been their purpose for hundreds of years, usage outside that purpose is silly, reading them as something outside that purpose is silly.


111 posted on 09/28/2011 8:48:20 AM PDT by discostu (yeah that's it)
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