Geez, can you be any MORE sensitive? I'm well aware of the WORD ORIGIN, thank you very much. I don't need a missive from you on the history of an acronym, or world religion. So, why don't you take a gander into the kitchen & pour yourself a BIG glass of calm the hell down.
1) I'm not really very sensitive - I've taken verbal insults all of my life and somehow managed to survive. In case you hadn't noticed, I also addressed Harrym, whose post was lots less restrained than either yours or mine. Perhaps I should have addressed you guys separately, but the server (or maybe my connection) has been so slow that I thought I'd save the time.
However, the point remains that this reference to "B.C.E." in the article was anything but PC - a simple glance at the top of the page would have shown both of you that it was written by a presumably Jewish writer for an Israeli paper, whose audience doesn't hold the same beliefs as you do. I could only understand your angst at the "PC" of this phrase IF it had been written by some PC non-Jew writing for a paper whose audience wasn't overwhelmingly Jewish. In short, my main message is : Pay attention before you spout off.