Does It Bother Atheists That The Years Are Numbered After Jesus's Birth?

Funniest thing I read all day. Wasn't the world created some 6000 years ago?

Back then people lived like 900 years if I remember well.

All adds up.

 

I think it did piss off atheists, I think that's why they changed it to BCE and CE (Before Common Era, and common era)
That's what most school texts books have been replaced with

 

Also called Current Era or Christian Era.

What if Jesus was born on february 29th?

 

You can ask the same question to jews, muslims, hindus, jains, buddhists, zoroastrians, pagans, satanists, baal worshippers, zeus worshippers, and the many many other religions on this planet that do not worship jesus christ.

personally as an atheist this is the least of my worries both in my daily life and philosophically. i think religion presents much greater problems to this planet than an arbitrary calendar system.

 

It's not the biggest concern but i (tecnically an agnostic) would like to see it changed. As a history lover this B.C. stuff remains unpractical.
If i would argue for a change here i would not see it as battling the religious or something..

 

After the French Revolution they created a new calendar because they wanted to get away from religious and royalist influences. It didn't stick for long, only 12 years, and a few days during the time of the Paris Commune.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar#History

 

The new one should start somewhere real early. Not another calender that starts after (current ) year 1.

 

Jesus fucking Cristi..

 

When it was BC and AD, what was the reference for the years he was alive? 15DL? During Life? :rofl:

 

AD is not "after death" ...common misconception

 

Didn't the Star trek timeline start over after Vulcan got destroyed in one of the latest movies? Not that it would affect us in the 21st century if it would be more than fiction..

 

no, it does not bother me.....it is just a measure of time is all.....whatever the measurement may be.

 

AD and BC came into wider use in 800 CE, and were devised in 525.

the Roman Republic designated years after the consuls.

above quotes are from wikipedia.

 

I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who gives a toss.

 

The Hebrew and Chinese calendars go way back. it is Hebrew year: 5776 and Chinese year: 4713.

 

the illogic of doing so is annoying to me. this has nothing to do with what i believe or what i don't. the invention of agriculture and of the atomic bomb, were both bigger events in the history of sapient humanity on planet earth.
neither was jesus of nazarith the first time, nor the last, that 'god', in the form of choosing someone to be channeled by, visited humanity and tried to pull its head out of its ass.

(just as a btw, there is a jewish calendar that is more then 5,000 years old, and a chinese one that is more then 6,000. both make more sense. there is also a baha'i calendar that begins in 1844, if you want to reset with each manifestation.)

 

I agree. It is not so much as having a problem with Jesus' birthday or the man himself or that he's supposed to be the son of God. It even seems kind of practical to leave it as it is because we're all used to the years and numbers, and they kind of correspond with the development of western society (well roughly of course. There were developing societies here before Rome).
But we could change it to a new system that encompasses more of human written history (we could include prehistory as well but not sure i would favor thar) instead of just going into this unpractical use of going - (B.C) at a for many historians simply very random year 1 If it would be changed and consistently used most people would be used to it in a generation or two.