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You can use it. You have a right to your god. And I have a right not to worship it.

Good for you! But don’t criticize the majority of the world who are principled about not worshipping deities they don’t believe in.

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Calling it BC and AD isn't worshipping God or Jesus, really any more than calling it Saturday is worshipping the Roman God Saturn.

Remember to make your sacrifice to Tíw this morning.

Put the Thor back in Thursday! Damn secularists

Really the inaccuracy alone would be a decent reason to prefer BCE/CE over BC/AD even if devout.

BCE/CE at least have the benefit of a consistent language backing them, rather than English for BC and Latin for AD.

maybe we drop one vestigial nod to the middle ages and compromise: BC/YL

What's the inaccuracy? Are you speaking of when Jesus Christ was born? At one point it was based on an estimation of that, but for a long time it has been standardized and isn't related to that anymore. There is a very specific year that is "year 1".

I have a bit of an issue with it because it does seem to endorse a religion, but still.

And that’s why I don’t use that name.

There is a non-trivial amount of the English language that has religious baggage that I suspect you'll have a difficult time first identifying and then avoiding.

Also he didn't really criticize anyone, except himself, by calling himself old.

You can call it CE or AD, that does not change the origin of the choice for the year 0...

In fact CE makes that origin the 'common' default.

There is no Year 0 in the Gregorian calendar, fwiw.

It’s old enough that it skips from 1 BC to 1 AD.

A bit like US elevators (as opposed to UK lifts that stop on the ground floor in-between).

You understood what I meant, let's stay on point.

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