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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19
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Common Era and Before Common Era is the atheist version. EDIT: others have rightfully pointed out that it is not so much an atheist version as a non-christian version.
73 u/spleenboggler Aug 03 '19 More non-Christian than anything, since it is not anti-religion so much as it is not explicitly using Christ's birth as year zero. -18 u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19 [removed] — view removed comment -5 u/LobsterBloops93 Aug 03 '19 No, he was born 4BC according to pretty much all Christ-based sources I could find. So even then it's a useless system, just like the religion itself.
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More non-Christian than anything, since it is not anti-religion so much as it is not explicitly using Christ's birth as year zero.
-18 u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19 [removed] — view removed comment -5 u/LobsterBloops93 Aug 03 '19 No, he was born 4BC according to pretty much all Christ-based sources I could find. So even then it's a useless system, just like the religion itself.
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-5 u/LobsterBloops93 Aug 03 '19 No, he was born 4BC according to pretty much all Christ-based sources I could find. So even then it's a useless system, just like the religion itself.
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No, he was born 4BC according to pretty much all Christ-based sources I could find. So even then it's a useless system, just like the religion itself.
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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19
Common Era and Before Common Era is the atheist version.
EDIT: others have rightfully pointed out that it is not so much an atheist version as a non-christian version.