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First, the BCE/CE system claims that the Gregorian calendar is common to many different groups. This is a fact. Second, it implies that many people do not accept Jesus as Christ or Lord. This too is a fact. Third, it does not reflect the POV of any faith. BCE and CE do not represent a Jewish point of view. They do not represent a Hindu point of ...
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era. Common Era and Before the Common Era are alternatives to the original Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) notations used for the same calendar era.
Since 1856, [40] the alternative abbreviations CE and BCE (sometimes written C.E. and B.C.E.) are sometimes used in place of AD and BC. The "Common/Current Era" ("CE") terminology is often preferred by those who desire a term that does not explicitly make religious references but still uses the same epoch as the anno Domini notation.
Note also that you aren't alone in having difficulty with this. The software implementing preferences in the style of the ISO 8601 data-interchange format on Wikipedia has a major bug in it;it doesn't kept the same number as you did, but rather goes in the opposite and incorrect direction from what it should be.
CE/BCE isn't automatically translated into "A date that I recognize", but rather into AD/BC, and that leads the mind to question "Why the change" which leads directly to the point that "The person using CE/BCE doesn't want to mention Jesus even via the etymology of a word" which leads to "Mentioning Jesus must be a terrible thing" which is, in ...
BCE/CE vs. BC/AD is a tough debate, but I do have to side with supporting this arguement. MicahMN | Talk 21:49, 16 May 2005 (UTC) Agree that BCE/CE carries less bias toward a religious belief and is therefore more neutral. Rlw 23:47, May 16, 2005 (UTC) I think that CE/BCE is more NPOV than AD/BC.
Stylistically, BCE/CE may be more suitable for articles on subjects where BCE/CE is the predominant style in the literature. In other words, I respectfully suggest that the convention should be to use whichever term is least jarring in terms of readability to most readers/editors of a particular article (if only one of the forms is to be used).
The elaborate rock-cut tombs of the Israelite period, forming what is known as the Silwan necropolis and dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries BCE, are found outside Wadi Hilweh/the City of David, on the ridge on the opposite, eastern side of the Kidron Valley in and under the Arab village of Silwan. [95]