At 15:01 +0200 5/9/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
On 9/5/06, Guettarda guettarda@gmail.com wrote:
Actually one of the major issues in the dispute is whether BC/AD violates NPOV because it requires Wikipedia to make an assertion the Jesus is the Messiah/God. BCE/CE merely describes the condition, and thus does what the NPOV policy asks.
No, it merely requires our readers to assume Jesus was born in the year 0. The dating method doesn't state anything about his supposed God/Messiah-ness.
Mgm _
Yeah, and he was born on the 1st January in that year.
:-)
And the whole world celebrated the millennium one year early, I don't think we will sort this out before the heat death of the Universe!
Gordo