03-15-2004, 05:21 AM
Please, no CE, Common Era. Apart from the fact that calling the last two thousand years 'Common/Current Era' sounds Orwellian, it still takes its changeover date from Christ's birth and therefore is about the daftest modern idea I've heard since someone used the word 'modernism' as if it meant something.<br>
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Like it or not, our dating system is based on the birth of Jesus. The Soviet Union tried to introduce a new system to get around that, but even they eventually gave up.<br>
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I could respect a Muslim who wanted to date things from Mohammed, but non-muslims trying to ignore a cultural influence of that sort of force is just ridiculous.<br>
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Here endeth the rant. I wouldn't have bothered, but this string is about a Christ film, after all.<br>
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Conn <p></p><i></i>
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Like it or not, our dating system is based on the birth of Jesus. The Soviet Union tried to introduce a new system to get around that, but even they eventually gave up.<br>
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I could respect a Muslim who wanted to date things from Mohammed, but non-muslims trying to ignore a cultural influence of that sort of force is just ridiculous.<br>
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Here endeth the rant. I wouldn't have bothered, but this string is about a Christ film, after all.<br>
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Conn <p></p><i></i>