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?
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Because that’s how influential a religion can be.
> nobody even knows if Jesus was real
There is historical proof of a guy, but obviously him being the messiah is another story. But yes, I believe the dates are I think 3 or so years off from his birth.
It doesn’t really make a difference what we call the year, so long as we all call it the same year (it does/did make for much prettier new years glasses though; could you imagine making a glasses design using 4,500,000,000?), though we still aren’t at that point (heck, we only just recently [made a jump towards most everyone doing their own ages the same](https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-age-counting-law-a38a4a6b47c6864bd13433fdac071cec)).
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