Geoff Burling wrote:
- That the only people who would resist using this style do so for
reasons of faith. A straw man argument: I prefer "AD/BC" over "CE/BCE" because that was the style that I felt was the most authentic for me. I am currently not a member of any religion, although at one point in my past I did embrace neo-paganism.
For me, I prefer AD/BC over CE/BCE only because: * It's harder to change one to the other with a simple typo. * There's the same number of letters in each, which satisfies my aesthetic sense.
That these reasons alone are sufficient to sway my preference on the matter suggests to me that I don't consider the matter to be terribly significant. :) However, since switching over to CE/BCE would entail some rather major work fixing stuff in Wikipedia, I would strongly oppose changing in either direction on that very basis - it's just not worth it, IMO.