LogFAQs > #932171550

my actual hot take is that I think we should phase BC/AD out of common usage and go with BCE/CE

even if basing the calendar off of Jesus's birth wasn't of questionable religious motivation, we also have no actual fucking idea if it's correct (assuming he existed of course), we have no idea how some monk in the 500's arrived at that conclusion and it's been a huge debate of various Christian canons ever since. I mean hell, we don't even celebrate Jesus's birthday on January 1st so what the fuck is even going on here

but we're REALLY entrenched on the year numbers we use so let's just base the first year on the calendar on the year that people commonly believe to be the first year of the calendar and remove Jesus out of the equation. Yay! (Even if you're religious and really hung up on the idea that the calendar should be based on Jesus, I think this would free you up to more thoroughly investigate the question of when Jesus was born without having to worry about screwing up the calendar, which is kind of a problem)

sorry, just unrelated calendar ramblings