Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Just as you thought that the UK were the world champions on political correctness along come the Aussies to knock us off our smug perch with this little ''beauty''.
Australia is to remove the birth of Jesus as a reference point for dates in school history books.
Under the new politically correct curriculum, the terms BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini) will be replaced with BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era).
The Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, yesterday condemned the move as an 'intellectually absurd attempt to write Christ out of human history'
Marek
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I'm surprised at the Aussies; I'd be surprised at anyone suggesting that - isn't OZ a Christian society (or supposed to be) ?
Roger
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The nutters in Australia really have taken over the asylum.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the aussies i have known have always been the least mealy mouthed or politically correct people i have ever met.
i doubt that the average citizen has any truck with this move.
NO!!!!!! What an idiotic, retrograde, negative, destructive, undermining plain stupid thing to do.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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C'mon Bern, don't hold back tell us what you really think of the idea.
Marek
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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The Arabs have for many years used the term 'Christian Era' in the same context.
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The Common Era was originally introduced in the Sixth Century and appeared in English as early 1708.
Its use can traced back to the Latin term vulgaris aerae and the English Vulgar Era.
Use of the CE abbreviation was introduced by Jewish academics in the mid-19th century.
The terms CE and BCE became popular in academic and scientific publications in the late 20th century.
They were used by publishers to emphasise secularism or sensitivity to non-Christians, but both still use the Gregorian calendar and the year-numbering system revolving around BC and AD.
The Gregorian calendar - the most widely used in the world - is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Jesus, with AD counting the years afterwards and BC denoting the years before.
The term Anno Domini is Medieval Latin translated as 'In the year of Our Lord.'
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
