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by whis-kiss 513 days ago
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.

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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?