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1 posted on 09/09/2023 1:25:27 AM PDT by spirited irish
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2 posted on 09/09/2023 1:27:33 AM PDT by spirited irish ( )
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To: spirited irish

The great falling away?


3 posted on 09/09/2023 1:29:18 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: spirited irish

The most blatant is referring to Christmas as Xmas


4 posted on 09/09/2023 1:41:18 AM PDT by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: spirited irish

BC and AD is an important reference point, while “common era” means zilch to me and probably to a lot of others.


9 posted on 09/09/2023 2:44:58 AM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: spirited irish

Living in end times. Fear not. We know how it ends. 🙏


17 posted on 09/09/2023 3:56:01 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: spirited irish

Because Christians in general and whites specifically don’t fight.


20 posted on 09/09/2023 4:35:00 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: spirited irish

the counting still goes from the Jesus era. the initials are secondary.


29 posted on 09/09/2023 5:00:49 AM PDT by avital2 ("n)
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To: spirited irish

I’m happy to report that I visited the Greek and Roman statuary at Met in NYC this summer and that museum uses BC and AD.


42 posted on 09/09/2023 5:59:15 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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The government is creating new holidays to replace Christian days

Christians are well aware of Easter and the mixing of egg hunts and Christ and such, but if they look closely they will notice that government buildings that handle children’s activities do a holiday event that falls on Easter week but is not related to Easter at all, business is doing it also, in time that will become the holiday and Easter will disappear.

Christmas is also being replaced in those same buildings, the kids are fully drenched in a highly decorated festive holiday that matches the Christmas timeline but that has zero to do with Christmas, it is the process of a new holiday being created that will replace Christmas.

Christians are used to business leaving out the Christ part of Christmas and we mostly accept that as business, but visit those city and county buildings used for children’s events and you will see much more than that, you will see a completely new holiday being created for future generations.


43 posted on 09/09/2023 6:09:14 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: spirited irish

it’s not His birth which is the greatest event in history, it is His resurrection and victory over eternal death which is the greatest event in history.

Maranatha!

...that is all


47 posted on 09/09/2023 6:46:27 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: spirited irish

Yeah, I refuse to use B.C.E.


49 posted on 09/09/2023 6:52:48 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: spirited irish

What does DEW mean?


50 posted on 09/09/2023 6:54:13 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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‘I have never met a Muslim or Jewish leader who is offended by the Gregorian calendar’ while leading Imam Ibrahim Mogra said: ‘I don’t believe it causes Muslims offence.’ A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews said: ‘I don’t think anyone would mind if in mainstream schools they use BC and AD.’”
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Some of the very first protesters of Rome might have been offended by the Pope calendar,in principle.
Had they been alive when it came out..

A calendar from the 4th Beast of Daniel, named after an Antichrist.(if the premise of the first protesters were correct about the Vatican/Papacy/Pope)

It would appear Islam and Judaism are content with the Beast and Antichrist’s calendar, especially false goddess frigg day and false god saturn day..

Without the Beast and Antichrist, they wouldn’t know what day to worship or what days to work.

Pointing that out to them might offend them.
Probably the same if one tried to point that out to a protester of Rome today..


54 posted on 09/09/2023 7:10:49 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: spirited irish

BCE: “Before The Christian Era” and CE: “The Christian Era”.

I see no problem.

Someone decided to designate BC and AD originally but even that isn’t in scriptures.🤔

For years many couldn’t figure out what AD stood for.☹️


55 posted on 09/09/2023 7:33:54 AM PDT by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: spirited irish

Oh, Christmas is about the birth of Christ?

I thought it was about Santa-claus and holiday trees.


56 posted on 09/09/2023 7:53:14 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: spirited irish

I hate these people.


61 posted on 09/09/2023 9:00:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: spirited irish

This happened 300 years ago. If you’re just noticing now that’s on you.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/should-we-use-bce-instead-of-bc/

And honestly it makes perfectly good sense. since in the time frame it’s most commonly used most of the world had nothing to do with Christianity, or even Judaism. Talking about Chinese pre-colonial history in terms of when Christ was born makes no sense at all.


66 posted on 09/09/2023 10:34:26 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: spirited irish

WOW really, didnt know WE were not allowed to us BC/AD if WE choose to. its the academic world that changed the usage.

Christians do not have to.


71 posted on 09/09/2023 10:56:44 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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I attended a Catholic run University. There was a Christian Brother there who taught a history class and he used B.C.E. and C.E. instead of B.C. and A.D.. I thought it was odd. This was at the start of all of the social justice bullcrap.
Now looking back, that was nothing compared to what this current Pope is doing to secularize the faith.


72 posted on 09/09/2023 12:28:42 PM PDT by dznutz
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