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_bin_ | 9 months ago

Attacking something over its Christian roots that is no longer generally understood to be Christian is, in fact, anti-Christian bigotry. There is no policy of attacking things with any religious roots, just ours.

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ab5tract|9 months ago

Common Era was first used in place of AD in the seventeenth century… by a Christian.

That’s as nested as you’ll get me to go today. Blessings!

card_zero|9 months ago

Huh, that's interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era#History

It say AD "was conceived around the year 525 by the Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus. He did this to replace the then dominant Era of Martyrs system, because he did not wish to continue the memory of a tyrant who persecuted Christians." So AD itself was a neologism to avoid mentioning something offensive (or someone offensive, Diocletian).

card_zero|9 months ago

It's probably related to the pushiness of the religion. Like, something similar might happen with Islam, or Hinduism these days. But probably not Zoroastrianism or animism. On the other hand I think it's silly and resembles damnatio memoriae.

_bin_|9 months ago

You’re not separating what you call “pushiness” from mere presence. Notice how you picked two minuscule religions with tiny numbers of believers, and therefore very little community, worldwide?