AUSTRALIA TO REMOVE CHRIST FROM TEXTBOOKS
Todd Starnes
Christians in Australia are accusing national education officials of “Christian cleansing” in response to pending changes in school books that would remove references to the birth of Jesus Christ.
The government would replace the terms BC, Before Christ, and AD, Anno Domini, with non-religious language. The new terms will be BCE (Before Common Era), BP (Before Present) and CE (Common Era).
A spokesman for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority told The Herald Sun that the new terms were an increasingly common standard for the representation of dates. the rest image
Peter Jensen, the Archbishop of Sydney, told The Daily Telegraph that taking references to the birth of Jesus Christ out of school books was an “intellectually absurd attempt to write Christ out of human history.”
posted by Pat Dague @ 4:12 PM
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While I agree it is deplorable to remove B.C. and A.D. as the official designations I also deplore the ignorance of those making statements, who obviously have not even checked Wikipedia on this topic. CE/BCE was thought up by English-speakers in the 16-1700s, actually, never used much, and in the mid-1800s (I think) resurrected by Jews to mean the era common to Christianity and Judaism. Thus it still carried an implicit recognition that Christ's coming is the boundary between BCE and CE. But it is being pushed by Jews in particular, who are offended by A.D., 'The year of the Lord', since they don't recognize Him as Lord.
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