Why do atheist count the years from Jesus Christ's birthday?
>>80353691
Because it is a remnant of a time when we used to believe in something
>>80353691
no we convert from mayan calender to the christian one, because our society is using it
>>80353691
When should we count from, and why?
it's more convenient than counting from billions and documented human history doesn't go back much further than 2000.
>>80353691
Your retarded ass should have noticed a shift to CE and BCE, meaning Common Era and Before Common Era.
We have a widely accepted time stamp in which to frame reality. It is easier.
>>80355072
It's just a superficial relabelling
>>80353691
Because it just werks.
>Why do Christians name the months of the year after roman mythology? >Why do Christians call the days of the week names of Nordic gods such as Thor?
Fuck of you retarded faggot.
>>80354537
/thread
>>80355187
This.
>>80355072
>"Your retarded ass should have noticed a shift to CE and BCE"
You're delusional. Renaming AD/BC doesn't change the calendar. You and the rest of the world are still referring to the birth of Christ.
>>80355072
I've never heard of these terms.
If this some sort of thing for thickos who can't understand latin?
>>80353691
That's probably not even when Jesus was actually born.
Most Biblical scholars would say it's about 40 years off.
>>80360836
It would have to be to give any credit to the New Testament at all. The books are all written 150 years after 0CE on average which would make them the accounts of great great great great grandchildren back then.
>>80353691
We don't.
As the rest of Christianity, they took a pagan appointed day and made it concur with "the birth of christ"
Nobody knows what was that important pagan event now.
>>80353691
They don't. The modern calendar of BCE and CE is based on an astronomical event. The year 1 CE is the first year the sun rose in the constellation Pisces at the the spring equinox, which is another of the reasons the early Greek church associated the fish with Christ.
>>80353691
Is that supposed to be an argument against atheism?
>LEL why do atheists sei "god bless you"???? XD
Why bother changing it? It's a. System that works and that's what counts. Just like I still use AD and BC, the alternatives are that little bit more inconvenient
>>80354875
Chinese and Mesopotamian writing could take our history back 4000-6000 years
>>80353691
>Why do atheist count the years from Jesus Christ's birthday?
Because Jesus was born on January 1st.
>he doesn't know about theinvention of th eleap year and how the august of 1654 had just 2 days
fuck off, learn some history. The current dates do not correspond to the birth of your childish fantasies.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IJhgZBn-LHg
>>80353691
Jesus was born in 4BC or slightly earlier
There's no evidence Jesus was born in the middle of winter
So why do Christians count the years from a guess some guy made in the middle ages?
>>80353691
Actually no one does. Medieval monks fucked up and we don't know when Jesus was really born.
>>80363913
>This.
Saturnalia.
I hate you assholes. You've forever ruined this movie for me.
>>80353691
Wow is pol really this retarded?
It's called "common era" you cucks. fuck me.
>>80364328
thank you
>>80353691
I used to enjoy this film but the constant shitposting has killed that.
>>80354717
We should start counting from the day we stuffed the last jew into an oven.
Because it's the standard, if you don't you'll be out of the loop.
Also, the calendar has been modified a lot anyway, october used to be the 8th month
>>80370978
We'd be in negative years then
>>80353691
Oh god.. This again? I left /b/ like 2 years ago, and now I see this shit even here??
>>80354717
>When should we count from, and why?
there is no we, the countries would decide their own faith and so how they will count, like usa that dont use meters and etc..
>>80353691
Tacit acknowledgement of the superiority of Christian culture and civilization.
>>80353691
It's convention. Not to mention, Christ wasn't even born in 0 AD. He was born between 4 and 6 BC
>>80354717
1882, first use of the word "fedora"
>>80360497
Seriously never heard it? They shoved that down our throats in college, I had one professor who would take 1% of your paper for each use of BC, and AD. A raging cut who transformed "Medieval history" into "History of women in the medieval period"
Because it's handy
>>80353691
It sure beats me, as jesus never existed since jesus is a lie made up by the people of the devil, which is why it is never a censored nor persecuted thing and which is why your post never got deleted in a place where the devil has a hold :^)
>>80353691
Probably because counting years from the Earth's birthday would be somewhat impractical.
>>80368391
MEXICANS OUT REEEEEEE
>>80374417
>He was born between 4 and 6 BC
>He never existed
>>80353691
>1 post by this ID
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