On 9/6/06, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
ScottL wrote:
> maru dubshinki wrote:
>
>
>> On 9/5/06, ScottL <scott(a)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
I know some neopagans who would be quite
insulted by that statement.