From: draqonfayir@juno.com
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 09:36:45 EST
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Padraic Brown
<elemtilas@yahoo.com> writes:
> > This is the international terminology acceptable by
> > non-Christian cultures, regions and religions. Am I
> > right?
> What's deliciously ironic about the PC crusade that
> spawned CE and BCE is that both are _still_ based on
> the birth of Jesus Christ - the very thing they wanted
> to shy away from!
> Padraic.
-
Maybe because the C can also stand for "Christian":
Before the Christian Era
Christian Era
Like the Hebrew term |lefi sefirat hanotzrim| "according to the
Christians' count".
-Stephen (Steg)
"dos iz nit der shteg."
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