Nota Bene:
The use of BCE [Before Common Era] and CE [Common Era] is insidious Cultural Marxism in play; it is in itself propaganda.
Did the secular atheists who replaced BC [Before Christ] and AD [Anno Domini: In the Year of Our Lord] make any other changes to the global timeline? No. They stole it whole and renamed it. It is in absolute fact the same timeline.
They simply excised the raison d’etre for that timeline - just as they have done with Christmas Vacation, rendering it generic Holiday Vacation - without changing the actual vacation.
The monk, Dionysius Exiguus (Denis the Little), devised the timeline - using Roman Numerals, and without the use of the Zero - in response to a directive from Pope John I.
He attempted to determine the date of the birth of Jesus Christ, not for its own sake (since Christmas was not the main Christian celebration then), but in order then to make a calendar predicting future Easter dates for celebrating that, the chief holy day in the annual church calendar.
This is typical communism in action: Steal something, then remove all cultural or religious connotation, to make it appear “modern”: secular and atheist. (It is remarkably similar to what Muslims do when they conquer a nation; that is further proof that Marxists and Muslims share a totalitarian mindset, and a hatred for Christianity.)
It is intellectual theft. They did no work to devise this calendar, and they removed all reference to the reason for its being.
I am certainly not criticising you for posting such an article. I am, howver, suggesting that you and all stop viewing such encroachments upon First Amendment rights in the public sphere as merely benign and minor.
Were I to post such an article, I would append a note pointing this out.
No, this is not trivial. They will not rest until it becomes essentially illegal to even use BC or AD in any public capacity.
P.S.
AD goes before the date, not after, if one uses it: In the Year of Our Lord ####, not #### in the Year of Our Lord. One would not sing, “2525 in the Year.”
Just *TRY* and use ‘BC’ or ‘AD’ in any college paper anywhere other than at an explicitly Christian university and see how it goes.
So in the meantime everyone throws the baby out with the bathwater because of three characters in terminology. A timeline point is a segment in the line now matter what the hell you call that particular point. Unless it changes the timeline from that particular point then it doesn’t matter what you call it or deem it as.
A point in time is a point in time, no matter what you call it. This is all dumb idiotic stuff to prevent real discovery from both sides of this crap. While we should be concentrating on CONTENT, we are instead arguing symbolic semantics and definition. Just dumb as hell, blind faith will do what blind faith will do I guess...
“without the use of the Zero...”
Look at how time plays out on a number line.
There never was a year zero. Neither was there ever a year 0 AD nor was there ever a year 0 BC.
People partied late into the night on New Years Eve, BC 1 and woke up on the morning of January 1, AD 1.
The first decade AD spanned from January 1, 1 AD to New Years Eve AD 10. The first century AD spanned from January 1, AD 1 to New Years Eve AD 100. The first millenium spanned from January 1, AD 1 to New Years Eve AD 1000.
And yes, that does mean that the twentieth century did not end until the stroke of midnight brought in January 1, AD 2001. Not that the New York Times noticed (even though the January 1, 1901 edition of the NYT had a large number of features commemorating the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth).