What is the tab in the cronolgy that divides ‘Before the Common Era’ from the ‘Common Era’? This is silly stuff. Leonard Nemoy keeps doing it on the TV, but it is still the old definition to me. It blows to hell every historical article I read. I feel disgusted and just close up the paper when I read BCE or CE. What is it about these deconstructionalists that they are continually after convention. In my old neighborhood, I was standing talking to a neighbor who remarked about the color several people in the neighborhood had painted their houses. I told him ‘**** most men don’t worry about those things. That’s what’s going on here. ‘AD’ & ‘BC’ have been acceptable for a lot of years. Why are a few mal-contents after them? Anti-something I guess.
Exactly.
I mean, the days of the week are still as they are:
Sunday - Sun’s Day
Monday - Moon’s Day
Tuesday - Tiw’s Day (Norse god of combat)
Wednesday - Woden’s Day (Norse god of souls)
Thursday - Thor’s Day (Norse god of thunder)
Friday - Fríge’s Day (Norse goddess of love)
Saturday - Saturn’s Day (Roman god of harvest)