On 9/6/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
ScottL wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
On 9/5/06, ScottL scott@mu.org wrote:
Guettarda 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.
If I am not mistaken the beginning and ends of the months etc were originally set up based on astrological principals. Would it violate NPOV (since we would then be making astrological assertions) to keep using months?
But those astrological measurements are objective and empirically verifiable in a way that AD/BC is not, and often track significant events, such as the changing of the pole star.
According to [[March]], the month is named after Mars the god of war. The fact that he is the god of war is empirically verifiable?
We also need to abandon our days of the week. It is clearly a breach of NPOV to go around celebrating a barbarian God like [[Thor]] every seven days.
A significant difference being that nobody worships the Norse/German/Roman gods these days, nor do people live in cultures dominated by worshippers of Norse/German/Roman gods. Another is that the names of the days are named after Norse/German/Roman gods, but do not assert that they *are* gods. On the other hand, billions still worship Jesus and assert he is "our God", as does the designation A.D.
Jay.