On 05/09/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> 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.
That's a disingenuous presentation of the problem. Can you show a
single instance where your assertion that Jesus is Messiah/God is
required, and that is not a part of someone's argument against BC/AD?
The use of BC/AD merely requires that there may have been an historical
Jesus who was born at or near a time that is reasonably consistent with
the dating system. The idiotic assertion that Jesus was God is irrelevant.
Anno Domini. "In the year of the Lord..."
(I don't agree with Guettarda - I feel using BCE/CE is as much making
an explicit point as using BC/AD is - but I do suspect the above is
kind of his point)
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