Again, thank you for your answer. Yes, it is also troubling me that our society and culture is slowly turning away from the Christian values (and God) which we once valued and are now totaly ignoring. I hope and pray that we all will once again see the light, God Bless.Well, BCE and CE have pretty much become standard among academics. I don’t really see much hope of reversing that. I can understand wanting to preserve the more explicit reference to Christ as the turning point of history, but I expect that the "common era’ designations will continue to be used.
More troubling to me is that many have lost a sense of what the “common era” even means. It means the Christian era, but historians no longer cover it that way, and many histories are written in such a way as to minimize the fact that there was a Christian era.
I don’t know that we are being “forced” to use BCE and CE anymore than those before us “forced” anyone to use BC and AD.Thank you for your answer, that much I do know. What I would like to know is why we must we be forced to use BCE and CE instead of BC and AD? Must we succumb to the wishes of the ACLU, atheists, and other anti-Christians? As mentioned in previous posts,
the terms BC and AD originated in our western culture and were adopted globaly. Why MUST we change them now?
PAX DOMINI
Shalom Aleichem
A nice bit of irony there. Hard to believe that she even “got it!”I don’t know that we are being “forced” to use BCE and CE anymore than those before us “forced” anyone to use BC and AD.
I am still amused when I think of how one of the nuns teaching in my graduate program announced in the first class that she required the use of BCE and CE. She launched into this story of how adversity had strengthened her resolve when her “closed minded” professors in grad school demanded she use AD and BC, and docked her points for stubbornly using BCE/CE.
Of course, she marked me down for using BC/AD on my first paper- but then went a step further by pointing me out in class as “the one student who has to learn the hard way.” In response, I thanked her for giving me the opportunity to stand up for my values, and told her that I looked forward to the day when I could stand before my own students, and tell this story to explain how adversity had strengthened my resolve to use the BC/AD designations.
It was a bit of a tense moment, but she didn’t mark me down for that again.