[Ancesthntr]

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.

[Puppage]

Perhaps, in THIS instance I will give you your argument. However, religion aside, the B.C.E. being used in schools, and newspapers, etc. is most definately an act of political correction. How do you feel about AD being written as CE or Common Era? Are you now going to give me the history of THAT acronym, too?

[Puppage]

Also, just because YOU'RE not personaly offended by the B.C.E. does NOT make it a non politically correct term.