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Just read this information about the BBC : I feel really disappointed by its stance : how can we deny or erase our cultural and religious background ? Even if I'm not a frantic believer, I agree and accept that our civilization is based on Christianity (mostly). So why to deny our roots, our specificity, our existence ?? I wonder who's behind the wheel…http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/8788464/BC-or-BCE-The-BBCs-edict-on-how-we-date-events-is-AD-absolute-drivel.html
I agree with you 100%. I don't understand the push by the left to deny Western Heritage, it is almost as though they think they can make it so that history did not happen. I think the left would love it if Orwell's Memory Hole actually existed and they cold rewrite history and life to say what they wanted it to. I actually have a post about the whole AD/BC vs CE/BCE thing on my blog. I reject new dating conventions utterly. I even got into it with one of my professors about it.Pure postmodernism at work. >:(
Hearing stuff like this makes me really annoyed. You can bet that the BBC isn't going to stop using words like “Saturday”, “January”, or “June”, even though these are rooted in pagan religious words. So why do the pagans of the world get to have their words used and not Christians? I can tell you why – because Christians know better and don't care that certain words have pagan origins. It's the secularists, atheists, and leftists who claim they are doing it to avoid “offense”. What a crock.I made a case against the CE/BCE dating designation a while back in this thread, and I think these arguments still hold.
Sometimes I think it's best we just ignore this kind of stuff. A lot of this trying-to-remove-God PC crap doesn't really stick anyway. If any prof ever gives me a bad mark for using the standard dating system, I'll take it right to the top and beyond. I've only experienced this is one or two courses, but the instructor made it totally optional and one of them even preferred BC/AD.To me the only acceptable, and I would even say scholarly use of this is for Chinese or Eastern history or other civilizations that didn't and still don't have Christianity in their history.
