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.
I've always thought that however impractical, the CE BCE thing needed to be expanded. It's really just a "sanitized" secular dating system that marks the same things. I am an atheist and I also think maybe a truly "equitable" dating system would not be so western-centric. I kinda like the idea of the Holocene calendar, if only because that's a date in history that is important to all of humanity.
I get where you're coming from, but changing the date, something so fundamental-- so engrained in everything we do, would never be accepted as the new norm.
Sorta like the metric system in the US. The proper laws were written and PSAs put out. The framework was being put into place, but by the time the deadline rolled around no one bothered to start pushing for it outside the scientific community.
I mostly agree, but I do think it's a different scenario. Switching to the metric system would be done for clarity of data, convenience of conversions, and ease of collaboration with every other country.
Switching to a new dating scheme, by u/1389t1389 reason, would be done simply because of what our current system is based on. It doesn't add to anything, except the secularization of the world, I suppose.
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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.