(July 22, 2012 at 7:37 pm)aleialoura Wrote: My son and I were watching a documentary about the history of Greece. He's really into that sort of thing right now. He asked me what B.C. and A.D. meant.
When I told him, he got really angry. I don't blame him!
I read the wiki page about A.D. and B.C., and it's just bullshit. Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, everyone is currently living in "The year of our lord" 2012??? Seriously?!
That's why I love my kids, because before he asked, I wasn't mad about it. It was just something I sort of accepted. Now my wheels are turning.
Does this piss off anyone else? I mean, I'm not exactly up in arms about it, but it's fucking annoying to me.
That is why you people have changed it to "Common Era and Before the Common Era." CE and BCE which corresponds to the exact dates known now.
BTW
We know Christ to have been born between 4 and 6 BC because Herod the Great died in 4 BC. That means the monk or preist who set this time table got the math wrong to begin with. Even so if one is still using BC or AD it denotes their faith in God. So either you were watching a Christian produced film or you were watching a really old documentry (Pre 2000)
