AD is Latin but BC is English. And Anno Domini means "Year of Our Lord" which is objectionable to non-believers. AC and BC would've been more symmetrical and less problematic. CE and BCE is fine too.
Cmon. BC and AD are normal and accepted. Let's stop using Sunday thru Saturday cuz those relate to Norse religions.
Im certainly not calling u one or saying your post does anything wrong. Just pointing out this is why the internet atheists gave the rest of us such a bad rap. Championing stuff that is thinly veiled anti-christian is a bad faith motive, divisive, confusing, and demeaning of tradition that didn't need changing. If the years were different numbers, different story.
Isn't it blasphemy for someone to say Christ is "our" Lord if they aren't Christian? How am I being "anti-christian"? Who's being divided or demeaned?
I even said "AC" i.e. "After Christ" would've been an acceptable substitute and had the advantage of matching "Before Christ" which is in English. AD and BC is a mishmash of English and Latin that always struck me as weird.
The academic world settled on CE and BCE instead. I don't care. It's unimportant.
> Let's stop using Sunday thru Saturday cuz those relate to Norse religions
Does using any of those names imply that you believe Odin is the All-father?
BCE is "before the common era", and CE is "common era".
I suppose it kind of grandfathers in BC and AD, but I always find it funny that it happens to centre the birth of Jesus anyway.