BBC faces outcry as shows drop BC and AD

Wed, 28 Sep 2011

The BBC has been roundly criticised after some programmes dropped the terms BC and AD and replaced them with the “religiously-neutral” BCE and CE.

The Plain English campaign, Christian leaders, people of other faiths – and people within the broadcaster itself – have all hit out at the move.

The furore surrounds the dropping of the terms BC, Before Christ, and AD – which translates from Latin to ‘the year of our Lord’. 
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Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali commented: “I think this amounts to the dumbing down of the Christian basis of our culture, language and history.”

The Revd Peter Mullen commented that the move was an example of the BBC “trying to undermine Christianity by pushing an aggressive secularism”.

He added: “I would be very surprised if any other faith had complained about the use of Anno Domini and Before Christ.”

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