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Christ is being Politically Corrected

The P.C. police are at it again. This time God is not the target. Today Christ is under fire. Leave it to the scholars to try and change the wording in our dating system. Yes, the dating system that was designed around Christianity and has been going strong for around 2005 years is under attack.

B.C., or Before Christ has been used since Roman times around the same time Constantine converted to Christianity. Dionysius Exiguus, a monk from Russia who died about 544, was asked by Pope John I to set out the dates for Easter from the years 527 to 626. This is where our current B.C., A.D. system originated. 1,463 years later, in 1990, the P.C. police want to change it to B.C.E. or Before Common Era. They want to push the Son out as well as the Father.

A.D., contrary to popular belief, does not stand for After Death. It means Anno Domini, which is Latin for "in the year of the Lord". It is used to signify the Birth, not the death of Christ. This is the crux of the professorial request to change time. You see, this leaves a lapse of 33 years (due to His lifespan) in history set in limbo. It's missing time to scientists and they just can't leave anything out of place. It's not scientific. The replacement for this, and the time change, is C.E. or Common Era.

I'm rather surprised that they would use this as most professors and scientists will quickly equate CE with the "clear entry" button on the common calculator. Okay, everybody, all together:

Open your MS calculator and see for yourself.

Now that everyone has indulged themselves in taking a peek for yourself, just imagine the fun you could have erasing time...with a simple calculator. Okay, I admit it. That was a lame joke. But isn't trying to change the structure of our dating system a lame joke as well?

Well maybe, maybe not, this push has been going since the early 1990s and is in select books in the New York state curriculum. It isn't really used to any function as of yet, and the state testing still uses the biblical referencing system, but it is trying to make a silent insurgence into our school systems. They’re secretly trying to poison our youth into pushing religion out of our lives.

It hasn't had much success though. Select European countries have made the effort to change time immemorial, but appear to be faltering. Even the politically correct EU is having problems adapting to the new system. Could it be that by simply using the initials you can avoid that nasty religion issue? Could it be that religion in general is refusing the call to atheism? Or could it be that people are already acquainted enough to using the initials that changing the date system is a waste of…umm…time?

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Posted by aakaakaak at April 25, 2005 11:48 PM