I was recently eyeing
up a history book (as a future purchase probably next year) when I
saw in the sample it used BCE. After a little thought I decided to
not bother with it on that basis.
BCE and CE are
politically correct revisionist terms, standing for Before Common Era
and Common Era. They correspond directly to BC and AD (Before Christ
and Anno Domini, which means The Year Of Our Lord). So, 97BC is 97BCE
and 1456AD is 1456CE.
It’s an abjectly
pointless change. Who has asked for it? Jews, Muslims, the Chinese
and others all have their own calendars. Nobody has asked for those
to change or taken some sort of offence, and I don’t think anyone
has for the Christian calendar either.
The ‘Common Era’
did not begin by a group of people sitting around a campfire singing
folk songs and holding hands. It’s dated from the approximate birth
of Jesus. Attempting to airbrush this out of the calendar is a
nonsense.
It’s also very
depressing that a historian would diminish respect for the past by
imposing an unasked for and unnecessary revision based on a politically correct worldview.
This video (nothing to
do with me, I hasten to add) sums it up rather well. I saw it a week
or two before the history.
Amending history as new
evidence comes to light due to scientific and archaeological
advancement is shining light on the darkness of our past. Imposing
politically correct dogma on the past veils the truth with nebulous
nonsense. The Western calendar is dated from the approximate birth of
Jesus. Pretending otherwise is derisory, and historians should know
better.
Thaddeus
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