BBC to scrap the use of AD and BC,polical correctness gone mad.

In the twentieth turning of the seasons since Tal the elder passed into the under realm of the final feast there did come a great upheaval in the political correctness verily unto the point of the ailing mind that wanders in the meadows of unending confusion.

Mena wrote: »

This is just the rest of the world catching up.

The "rest of the world catching up"?

What nonsense.

BC/AD is in global use because it is a term used in the Christian calendar and Christianity is a worldwide religion.

Although, that PC nonsense is what I expect from the world's most PC organisation. Watching the BBC you'd be forgiven for thinking that every school pupil in Britain was a Muslim girl wearing a headdress and that every male is homosexual. They've even made Doctor Who homosexual.

Originally Posted by zerks
and anyhow it's not even offensive

I don't think it matters whether or not non-Christians find BC/AD offensive.

The fact is that Britain is a Christian country - 71.6% of Britons said they are Christians in the 2001 census - and the BBC is the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation and, therefore, the vast majority of the license fee payers - those who keep the BBC running - are Christians. The BBC should remember that it is an organisation representing a Christian country and should stop pandering to the people of other faiths, especially when the people of other faiths don't pander to Christians.

The other fact of the matter is is that the PC Brigade are only scared of offending certain groups.

They don't like offending non-Christians, gays, non-whites and women, but they don't give a damn how offensive they are about whites, Christians, straight people and men - but especially white, male, straight Christians (the PC Brigade especially hate those).

For example, I find the hijab offensive, but would the BBC ban the showing of it on their programmes? Nope. Because it's choosy about who it doesn't want to offend.

Seachmall wrote: »

We can remove the Religious connection without removing the holiday.

So you want to celebrate Christianity's two most important religious festivals - Easter and Christmas - but take away all their religious connections?

Yeah, another great loony lefty idea. Let's all have Good Friday off work so we can stuff our faces with Easter eggs as long we don't mention to anybody that we are actually marking Jesus's crucifixion.

Good Friday is a religious day. The whole point of the day is to mark the crucifixion of Christ. You can't have Good Friday without its religious aspects.

Terri26 wrote: »

TheReligious Education (for Junior Cert) textbooks use BCE and CE

That's because they are as PC as the BBC (or should that be PCC?).

Originally Posted by Peep O'Day
and please inform us as to when christ was born so?

Most scholars say Jesus was born sometime between 6BC and 4BC:

Two independent approaches have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus, one by analyzing the Nativity accounts in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew along with other historical data, the other by working backwards from the estimation of the start of the ministry of Jesus, as also discussed in the section below.

In their Nativity accounts, both the Gospels of Luke and Matthew associate the birth of Jesus with the reign of Herod the Great, who is generally believed to have died around 4 BC/BCE. Matthew 2:1 states that: "Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king" and Luke 1:5 mentions the reign of Herod shortly before the birth of Jesus. Matthew also suggests that Jesus may have been as much as two years old at the time of the visit of the Magi and hence even older at the time of Herod's death. But the author of Luke also describes the birth as taking place during the first census of the Roman provinces of Syria and Iudaea, which is generally believed to have occurred in 6 AD/CE. Most scholars generally assume a date of birth between 6 and 4 BC/BCE. Other scholars assume that Jesus was born sometime between 7–2 BC/BCE.

The year of birth of Jesus has also been estimated in a manner that is independent of the Nativity accounts, by using information in the Gospel of John to work backwards from the statement in Luke 3:23 that Jesus was "about 30 years of age" at the start of his ministry. As discussed in the section below, by combining information from John 2:13 and John 2:20 with the writings of Josephus, it has been estimated that around 27-29 AD/CE, Jesus was "about thirty years of age". Some scholars thus estimate the year 28 AD/CE to be roughly the 32nd birthday of Jesus and the birth year of Jesus to be around 6-4 BC/BCE.

However, the common Gregorian calendar method for numbering years, in which the current year is 2011, is based on the decision of a monk Dionysius in the six century, to count the years from a point of reference (namely, Jesus’ birth) which he placed sometime between 2 BC/BCE and 1 AD/CE.[76] Although Christian feasts related to the Nativity have had specific dates (e.g. December 25 for Christmas) there is no historical evidence for the exact day or month of the birth of Jesus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_christ#Possible_year_of_birth