A New Calendar for Atheism

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I understand the skepticism and sarcasm by everyone btw. Also -- I know China, Israel and Saudi all use the Gregorian calendar for business purposes -- I meant in their official government docs do they use their respective cultural religious years as well? I have lived in the Middle East and done business with Saudis and many elite are quite secular.

So what exactly is the problem with this?

The Gregorian just puts Christianity at the center of the entire modern world. 2000 years is arbitrary and we all use it because of European Empire and now US dominance etc.

Well, there is not much we can do about that right now. And frankly, this isn't really a priority for most people today.

The calendar won't shift anytime soon without some huge cataclysmic event or space travel or something crazy like aliens, but I'm just saying -- when I'm arguing with a religious Christian, Muslim or Jewish human being, its a fun argument to use ... its really the year 12000. Your prophet's significance is zero and your short timeline is irrelevant. I mean let's use year 8 billion for Earth... now that's impractical.

Well, for you maybe. For someone else, there might be a significance. For me, the only significance it has is for practical purposes. I use the gregorian calendar simply because we have used it ever since the foundation of our republic, which was implemented in order to be more in sync with western countries. So we're having the same new years eve and shit.
Unless our people become as powerful as I'd like them to be, I think we need not to revert back to traditional calendars just yet.[/align]