It is more than correct on the part of BBC to have dropped anachronistic and nonsensical BC and AD.
It looks stupid to read an event in History which has taken place before formation of the Calendar, by marking as BC .
How does one refer to some one refer to something that has taken place before an event by referring to the latter event?
It is like saying A comes before B.
It takes moral courage on the part of BBC to do what is has done now.
This is more logical.
More logical would be to be to take the earliest proven event and make it as beginning of the Calendar and keep updating.
May be cumbersome, but logical.
Do not bother about religious zealots.
Let them live in the bygone era.
The BBC has been accused of ‘absurd political correctness’ after dropping the terms BC and AD in case they offend non-Christians.
The Corporation has replaced the familiar Anno Domini (the year of Our Lord) and Before Christ with the obscure terms Common Era and Before Common Era.
Some of the BBC’s most popular programmes including University Challenge, presented by Jeremy Paxman, and Radio 4′s In Our Time, hosted by Melvyn Bragg, are among the growing number of shows using the new descriptions..
The BBC has been accused of ‘absurd political correctness’ after dropping the terms BC and AD in case they offend non-Christians.
The Corporation has replaced the familiar Anno Domini (the year of Our Lord) and Before Christ with the obscure terms Common Era and Before Common Era.
Some of the BBC’s most popular programmes including University Challenge, presented by Jeremy Paxman, and Radio 4′s In Our Time, hosted by Melvyn Bragg, are among the growing number of shows using the new descriptions.
BBC goes PC with BCE: The birth of Jesus will no longer be used as a reference point at the Corporation. The Before Christ time marker will be replaced with Before Common Era
God fearing: University Challenge, presented by Jeremy Paxman (pictured here with the Corpus Christi team), is among the growing number of shows using the new descriptions
The BBC’s religious and ethics department says the changes are necessary to avoid offending non-Christians. …
It states: ‘As the BBC is committed to impartiality it is appropriate that we use terms that do not offend or alienate non-Christians.
In line with modern practice, BCE/CE (Before Common Era/Common Era) are used as a religiously neutral alternative to BC/AD.’
