[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] BC vs BCE era names

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Akash Mehta wrote:
[fixed top posting]
> On 9/5/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/5/06, Guettarda <guettarda at 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.
>>>
>> Falls appart when you considder the islamic calender and the like
>> cuases simular problems for CE.
>>
>
> But isn't that taken for granted, that we must blindly accept, while
> accepting as little as possible, that Christianity is the dominant
> religion?
>

No. It accepts the historical fact that Christianity was the major
influencing religion in Western Europe (and from there, the "Western
world") for the better part of 1700 years.

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