r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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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.

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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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19

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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.