On 9/8/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/09/06, ScottL scott@mu.org wrote:
jayjg wrote:
On 9/7/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/6/06, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
A significant difference being that nobody worships the Norse/German/Roman gods these days
I know some neopagans who would be quite insulted by that statement.
I doubt their numbers are in the billions, or that they exert a dominating influence on Western culture.
Why should the size of a group/belief/idea impact NPOV?
The idea above is evidently that the larger the group, the less their POV should be taken seriously. So therefore we should put into place changes that *no-one wants whatsoever* or we are in violation of NPOV.
Not really. To begin with, the claim that *no-one whatsoever* supports this change is clearly not true. In addition, the argument is actually that use of BC/AD further helps entrench Christian cultural domination, which is already quite dominant based on Western history and the sheer numbers of Christians in the world, and supports, to a degree, an environment which has structural bias against non-Christians. Those who support use of BCE/CE see this as being inappropriate for countries which claim to endorse multi-religious/multi-ethnic/multi-cultural societies, and which strive to create environments which are welcoming to many religions, not just Christianity. And the current risk of a neo-pagan, Norse/Germanic/Roman god worshipping cultural domination being entrenched by use of terms like "Saturday" and "Thursday" is, in my view, pretty low.
Jay.