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Conservatives in a tizzy as....
BBC turns its back on year of Our Lord: 2,000 years of Christianity jettisoned for politically correct 'Common Era' (Daily Mail)
Dark Knight tackled the issue in an earlier (2005) WS thread:
BCE/CE replaces BC/AD in schools, now
BBC turns its back on year of Our Lord: 2,000 years of Christianity jettisoned for politically correct 'Common Era' (Daily Mail)
"You say yes, I say no"The BBC has been accused of 'absurd political correctness' after dropping the terms BC and AD in case they offend non-Christians.
The Corporation has replaced the familiar Anno Domini (the year of Our Lord) and Before Christ with the obscure terms Common Era and Before Common Era.
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more, including short discourse on Gregorian Calendar, at link aboveDr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, said: 'I think this amounts to the dumbing down of the Christian basis of our culture, language and history. These changes are unnecessary and they don't achieve what the BBC wants them to achieve.
'Whether you use Common Era or Anno Domini, the date is actually still the same and the reference point is still the birth of Christ.'
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But Rabbi Jonathan Romain, from Maidenhead Synagogue, said he could see the logic behind the change.
He said: ' In the year of Our Lord is a religious view that is not shared by many across the world, or even the UK. The change to BCE and CE is simply more inclusive.'
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Dark Knight tackled the issue in an earlier (2005) WS thread:
BCE/CE replaces BC/AD in schools, now