I understand what each one means. As well as BCE and CE. But I’m wondering why did we feel the need the number the years according to Jesus’ supposed birthday. And if it was so flawed (nobody even knows if Jesus was real, let alone when his birthday was) why did we keep it going? Could you imagine what year we could be in right now if we counted them normally?
In: 0
I remember an interview with niel deGrasse Tyson where he explained that the modern calandar, the gragorian calandar which was created by these fanatic monks hundreds of years back was the best calandar man ever contrived. That the Julien calandar, the man calandar, the Chinese calandar, none of them were as accurate.
The naming convention of Before Christ, and Ano Domini were their convention and out of tribute respect, he uses their BC and AD markings and not the established Before and After the common erra markings made by the politically correct within academia.
The year 0 is of course the supposed birth year of Jesus, the manner, three wise guys, you know, the whole nativity scene. Before that, we have BC, after that we have AD, or the year of our lord, which you may hear in plays and movies when old timey court scenes play out, “in the year of our lord, seventeen hundred and fourth-eight,….”
Other cultures like the Japanese have many different eras, mainly for various leaders, empowers, etc. For these you’d see records saying, “5th year of the meji era” from there we’d have to figure out what year on the gregorian calandar was being referred to.
The Roman did the same thing, reading the Bible you’d see references to “in the xth year of August’s reign” or similar conventions bu period historians.
But yeah, we have the Jesuit monks to thank for the BC and AD distinctions
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