re: #67 Unlike Some People

I don’t know why you think that. If you think that the formal use of “in the year of our Lord” is any less secular than AD, I think you are fantasizing.

Kinda reminds me of the people arguing that the symbol denoting a date of death in encyclopedias is a dagger and not a cross, so it shouldn’t offend Muslims or Jews.

It’s simply another way that Christianity is deeply woven into the entire culture of the Christian world. I wouldn’t say that “AD” is secular, it’s simply used in a secular way because if we didn’t, we’d have to use that bizarre calender the French revolutionaries put together.

What I actually dislike deeply is “BCE”, “CE”. Cool, we will still start history from Christ’s birth, but we will call it something else to make it sound more inclusive and shit. I use it, but I don’t have to like it.