On 9/6/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
jayjg wrote:
On 9/6/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
ScottL wrote:
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.
The last comment is a non-sequitur.
You must be using some novel definition of the term "non sequitur".
I would also question the numerical accuracy of your exagerated billions; the United States population isn't that high. The term "a large number" would have sufficed.
There are over 2 billion Christians in the world; if you're going to get pedantic, then please get your facts straight.
Be that as it may, the fundamental premise that you and many others assert Jesus to be your God may be true, but that implies nothing about the designation A.D. or those who use it.
Now *that's* a non sequitur, since I never said or implied that said anything about the people who use it.
I do not accept Jesus as God, but I still use A.D. I think that we all should be free to use whichever form we want,
Feel free to use what you want, Ray. In this thread we were talking about Wikipedia's usage.
without being constantly besieged by the forces of political correctness.
They're nothing compared to the "forces of hyperbole".
Jay.