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Originally Posted by Fathom Zero
I like how politically correct people want to change the system of dates from B.C and A.D to B.C.E. and C.E, yet the system is still revolves around the birth of Christ. I wasn't opposed to the BC-AD system in the first place, but I'm going to go ahead and assume at least one person was. This solution does nothing to solve the "problem", in my opinion. Just another example of how people find lame things to bicker over, as opposed to finding solutions to problems worth solving.
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That's retarded. The reason it "still" revolves around the "birth of Christ" (which, by the way, we don't have a definite date for anyway) is because doing anything else would fuck up everybody's calendars. Besides, the 100-year span either way from the supposed year 1 C.E. (100 B.C.E. - 100 C.E.) conicides with a lot of things other than just Jesus - Julius Caesar lived during this time, for example. There's no shortage of important world-changing events which we could base it on.
And, finding solutions to problems worth solving? It's not exactly like they wasted a huge amount of time changing B.C./A.D. to B.C.E./C.E. It makes things more palatable to non-Christians, anyway, which compose the vast majority of the world.
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