Well sure as an atheist I can't say that I wasn't tempted thinking about this and perhaps would re-start calendar when Darwin's "Origin Of Species" came out because that was real and hard nail to the coffin of religion.
But, unfortunately, re-starting calendar would be a foolish thing to do because people finally have accepted this and actually have coherent point from counting times and if you try to thinker with it upcoming politicians will want to change it to count time from the start of their rein, like it used to be in the past and still is in some monarchies. Someone did mention that French tried to restart their calendar from the revolution, but again it would be an encouragement for every new ruler or princeling or president to start a new era in his own honor, as was being done after the time of Alexander the Great.
When Mussolini came into power on October 28, 1922 they liked to date years in Roman numerals from that point. They didn’t consider it a new era, either, and made no attempt to replace the Christian Era.
Nations often have private nationalistic ways of numbering the years. For instance, American public documents often date something as happening in such and such a year of the independence of the United States. Thus, July 4, 1959 begins the 183rd year of this independence. It is not intended to be an era, though. It’s just a bit of pride.
Clueless Morgan did mention future space era and he might be on something, because probably in the future if something happens that changes humankind, possibly on a positive level, like invention of nuclear fusion that will, according to Dr. Brian Cox, "rise standard of living exponentially" that society changes to the point it becomes much less bureaucratic then maybe people will recognize it as an era. But then again that it hopefully for the historians won't change again because these things make their job complicated.
But, unfortunately, re-starting calendar would be a foolish thing to do because people finally have accepted this and actually have coherent point from counting times and if you try to thinker with it upcoming politicians will want to change it to count time from the start of their rein, like it used to be in the past and still is in some monarchies. Someone did mention that French tried to restart their calendar from the revolution, but again it would be an encouragement for every new ruler or princeling or president to start a new era in his own honor, as was being done after the time of Alexander the Great.
When Mussolini came into power on October 28, 1922 they liked to date years in Roman numerals from that point. They didn’t consider it a new era, either, and made no attempt to replace the Christian Era.
Nations often have private nationalistic ways of numbering the years. For instance, American public documents often date something as happening in such and such a year of the independence of the United States. Thus, July 4, 1959 begins the 183rd year of this independence. It is not intended to be an era, though. It’s just a bit of pride.
Clueless Morgan did mention future space era and he might be on something, because probably in the future if something happens that changes humankind, possibly on a positive level, like invention of nuclear fusion that will, according to Dr. Brian Cox, "rise standard of living exponentially" that society changes to the point it becomes much less bureaucratic then maybe people will recognize it as an era. But then again that it hopefully for the historians won't change again because these things make their job complicated.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
