Regarding the Christian Calendar..

[Dees]

Do non Christians find it offensive to be using the so called Christian calendar? 2005(AD)In the year of our Lord. 600BC..Before Christ. Some folks say CE and BCE. Common Era and Before Common Era.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I believe CE and BCE

are now the terms of choice among anthropologists/archeologists.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. What exactly is "common" about the era, I do not know.

And Jews and Muslims have their own calendars; in the Jewish calendar, it is the year 5765 (supposedly dated from the beginning of Genesis; this is where the fundamentalists get "600 years old" from), and in the Muslim calendar it is the year 1426 after the hegira (Muhammad's departure from Mecca in 622 CE). And other cultures also have their own calendars, but the dominance of Western culture means the Gregorian calendar is used for most things.

[TalkingDog]

3. BCE is Before Current Era. CE is Current Era

So we are in the Current Era

Essentially still dating around a Christian framework without calling it that.

But what can you do? History is history. You can revise it all you like, but there still has to be a consensus on when things (generally) happened and how to structure the current timeframe.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

4. as a non-christian, the calendar is the least of my worries

the calendar isn't going anywhere.

[yardwork]

6. My feelings exactly

If all I had to worry about was the calendar, what a happy life this would be!

[ComerPerro]

5. you're kidding, right?