A New Calendar for Atheism

[theyear12013]

Greetings. One major problem with Atheistic attempts to influence society is the deck is stacked against them. One important cultural artifact is the Gregorian Christian calendar. Just changing AD to CE and BC to BCE is not enough. The centrality of the conversion of Rome to Abrahamic religions needs to be challenged as the primal temporal event that underlies our calendar system.

After researching this, I now say the year is 12,013 since it is simple to remember and teach... its an idea proposed by scientist Cesare Emiliani. Otherwise we would need to restart the calendar based on some other common global event of this century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Emiliani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Meh. That's really just a minor issue we can work out once we rid the world of religion's dominance.

[Minimalist]

Actually it is 2018 because the fucking xtians can't even get that right.

[JohnCrichton72]

Ignore my last.

[Cinjin]

The problem with changing the current year in which we live is that we have to change every date we've ever assigned the past so to avoid confusion and repeated mistakes. This doesn't seem like it would be a big deal, but I think it could get very tricky very quickly.


In truth, there's no date that would ever satisfy the entire world. Even scientists would debate with scientists over what the actual date should be.

[theyear12013]

The problem with changing the current year in which we live is that we have to change every date we've ever assigned the past so to avoid confusion and repeated mistakes. This doesn't seem like it would be a big deal, but I think it could get very tricky very quickly.


In truth, there's no date that would ever satisfy the entire world. Even scientists would debate with scientists over what the actual date should be.

Agreed it would disrupt computer programs and history books -- so it wouldn't be easy or practical to do without some big reason or an easy conversion method.

But a calendar system longer than 8000 years should be common enough for most of humanity no? And actually the whole world uses the Christian calendar so you can get them to agree actually based on the dominant superpowers ( European Colonialism and now US ). I think adding 10000 to our current year is a simple way to illustrate that biblical prophets are not central to humanity. Atheism has to take symbolism seriously and I think one of the most powerful symbols for the position of Christian Abrahamic faiths versus science is control of the calendar and the year. If your kids grew up thinking about 10000 years of human civilization rather than 2000, don't you think their horizons would be bigger and the idea of a bunch of middle eastern prophets would be much more irrelevant and seem small.

[Doubting Thomas]

I say we go with "year of the monkey" and be done with it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Seriously, does anyone give a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut what we number the year, as long as people agree on it?

Boru

[Lemonvariable72]

What a major pain in the dick that change would be. However there are people that will " if there was no Jesus then what happened 2013 years ago

[kılıç_mehmet]

Greetings. One major problem with Atheistic attempts to influence society is the deck is stacked against them. One important cultural artifact is the Gregorian Christian calendar. Just changing AD to CE and BC to BCE is not enough. The centrality of the conversion of Rome to Abrahamic religions needs to be challenged as the primal temporal event that underlies our calendar system.

After researching this, I now say the year is 12,013 since it is simple to remember and teach... its an idea proposed by scientist Cesare Emiliani. Otherwise we would need to restart the calendar based on some other common global event of this century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Emiliani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

Wew. We're a Muslim country and we're using the gregorian calendar without being so anal-retentive about it, I simply cannot comprehend why you think that this is really relevant.