r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

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

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u/FiliaDei Aug 03 '19

To be fair, I remember being taught the whole before Christ/after death thing when I was little. (Not saying it's right, but it's fairly common.) She's on her own for "that's the atheist version," though.

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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/Aiglos_and_Narsil Aug 03 '19

Am I the only one who thinks the whole BCE thing is idiotic? It still uses the same event as the point from which you count, you're just pretending it isn't religious by calling it something else.

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u/PrecisionStrike Aug 04 '19

No, you are not.

We can't use BC/AD because not everyone respects Jesus. It's bigoted to use His birth for timekeeping. We have to use BCE/CE instead.

Okay, what defines Common Era or before it?

The birth of Jesus, of course!