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Anyone who does serious work in history has probably gotten into a discussion-slash-argument with someone who doesn’t approve of the current historical standard of using “BCE/CE” instead of “BC/AD”.
It occurred to me during a recent such argument that critics have gotten entirely the wrong end of the stick. Far from trying to excise Christianity from history, the modern standard is putting an end to a long standing anti-Christian message!
After all, what does BC stand for? “Before Christ”! It’s clearly an endorsement of the Arian heresy, implying that there existed a time where the Father existed but the Son did not, in violation of all good orthodox trinitarian theology! True Christians everywhere should be glad that we’re finally doing away with that vile heresy and removing it from the history books, in accordance with Constantine the Great’s edict of 333 CE!
It occurred to me during a recent such argument that critics have gotten entirely the wrong end of the stick. Far from trying to excise Christianity from history, the modern standard is putting an end to a long standing anti-Christian message!
After all, what does BC stand for? “Before Christ”! It’s clearly an endorsement of the Arian heresy, implying that there existed a time where the Father existed but the Son did not, in violation of all good orthodox trinitarian theology! True Christians everywhere should be glad that we’re finally doing away with that vile heresy and removing it from the history books, in accordance with Constantine the Great’s edict of 333 CE!