Why Do People Use Terms Like B.C/A.D If You Dont Believe In Jesus?

[Dirty_Jerz]

:???:

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

This is a stupid ass question really.... Plenty of things in culture, science, philosophy etc are terminologies adapted from religion and using them is just a matter of familiarity.

 

[Sonni]

cause it dont mean shytt to them except a way to put events on a timeline

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

This is a stupid ass question really.... Plenty of things in culture, science, philosophy etc are terminologies adapted from religion and using them is just a matter of familiarity.

i dont know what makes it "stupid" besides never being asked about


what great event happened at that point in time to make it such a familiar thing for everyone to agree is the point time stopped counting down and started counting up?

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

don't they use common era and before common era now? (CE and BCE)

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

don't they use common era and before common era now? (CE and BCE)

i havent ever heard that used in any setting ive been around personally in any case what makes the eras common and not common

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

i dont know what makes it "stupid" besides never being asked about


what great event happened at that point in time to make it such a familiar thing for everyone to agree is the point time stopped counting down and started counting up?

nobody disagrees that the advent of christianity has a huge impact on history.... Also like Dirty Mcdrawz said the nondenominational CE are used now

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

after a quick google search i found out that the usage of common era and before common era has been used since the 1700s and became more popular during 20th century in academic and scientific fields.

i havent ever heard that used in any setting ive been around personally in any case what makes the eras common and not common

i don't think it works that way breh

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

nobody disagrees that the advent of christianity has a huge impact on history.... Also like Dirty Mcdrawz said the nondenominational CE are used now

:...: it isnt used everywhere but im still wondering why we counted down then counted up with no "year 0" inbetween, why is that significant enough to even have a ce/bce? same question different terminology

 

[88m3]

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

after a quick google search i found out that the usage of common era and before common era has been used since the 1700s and became more popular during 20th century in academic and scientific fields.





i don't think it works that way breh

i already did the search too its about as popular as it was in the 1700s as it is now compared to the O.G version thats sorta irrelevant tho to what im askin now


it doesnt work that way how? i see numbers going down to 0 then going up, what am i missing here? what happened? why?

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

:...: it isnt used everywhere but im still wondering why we counted down then counted up with no "year 0" inbetween, why is that significant enough to even have a ce/bce? same question different terminology

and i essentially answered that already. convenience..

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Jesus the man did exist, that's not even debatable.

The debate comes in when talking about Jesus the deity.

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

and i essentially answered that already. convenience..

convenience for what?

edit: why not just erase all the backwards counting and start at year 1 up till now?

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

Jesus the man did exist, that's not even debatable.

The debate comes in when talking about Jesus the deity.

interesting concept here but im trying to figure out what made people count down years for and then all the sudden start counting forward?

back in the times of B.C is this something they really did or is it only more recently that we labeled the times that way?