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'Common Era'

IaculusIaculus
edited 2011-08-01 18:08:50 in General
OK, I can see why folks might dislike having someone else's religion shoved into the most inappropriate places, but that does not change the fact that the calendar most of the world uses is dated from the (very) approximate year of Jesus's birth, and that does not change the fact that claiming a 'common era' began with the birth of one religion's Messiah is an utterly ridiculous and condescending way to paper over the whole mess.

And that is why, as an atheist, I am going to stick with Anno Domini until another, completely different calendar entirely devoid of religious connotations becomes sufficiently widespread.

/rant.

Comments

  • The_EdgeThe_Edge
    Mr. The Edge goes to Washington
    Yeah, I dislike it as well. It's kind of a slap to the face to be people of the B.C. era, I think. "Haha! Your birthyear is higher than your deathyear. Screw you!"
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Universal Century for the win!

    Besides, the spanish for Anno Domini is AC/DC which is cool.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    edited 2011-08-01 16:12:27
    It's probably going to become Before Computers/After Computers eventually.
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    I feel like I've made the Before Evangelion / Anno Hideaki joke enough times by now.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    edited 2011-08-01 16:31:34
    No rainbow star
    ^^ Nah

    Before Robot Uprising and After Robot Uprising
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Hideki, not Hideaki.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    I like 'Before Battle of Yavin'
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    @vandro: No, it is Hideaki, unless you're making a reference I don't get.
  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.
    Wait, you are right, my bad.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    It's convenient and already being used. It's been 2000 years since time started being counted for some reason. That's all that matters, and no amount of relijinocity will change that.
  • IaculusIaculus
    Yes, but why make this pathetic attempt to sugarcoat it? You're operating of a calendar based around the birth of a religious figure. Just accept it and move on. This whole 'Common Era' shit does nothing but make the situation that much more ridiculous and unfortunate.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Probably because people want to sugarcoat it. I don't know why they do it, but they do. Unfortunately for them, it isn't going to change the calendar, since it's still being counted for around 2011 years at a certain point in time.
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    I'll tell you what bugs me: the fact that "20th century" refers to the 1900s, and "19th century" refers to the 1800s, etc.
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-08-01 18:43:21
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    The name of the thing isn't something I can bring myself to care about at all.  It's what we got, it works, whatever.  I don't care if the name refers to christianity or not.

    ^ It makes sense, though.  The first century was year 1 - 100. 
  • DYREDYRE
    It makes sense, though.  The first century was year 0 - 99.

    Actually, it was 1-100 AD.

    There is no year 0.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Oh.

    My point still stands, though.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Plus most anti-theists I know like using that year system, and treat "AD" as the day a leader of delusion was executed and eliminated off of the face of the earth and a new timeline of sanity was started.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    edited 2011-08-01 18:46:00
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^What? It counts from his birth.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Then...I really don't get why they even bothered to mention the whole "death of a leader of delusion"-

    nevermind.
  • IaculusIaculus
    edited 2011-08-01 18:54:37
    ^^ Maybe they were talking about Herod? I mean, Jesus was actually born in about 1 or 2 BC by the best recent guesses, so the chronology's right for him popping his clogs then...

    ... no, no, wait, makes too much sense.

    And my gripe with CE is that it somehow manages to be even more offensive to non-Christians, for the reasons mentioned in the OP. If you're going to sugarcoat, at least try to do it right.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    But Chrono Trigger used BC/AD! How will we keep that game comprehensible to future generations?
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