Reply To: Does Saying “CE” and “BCE” Kasher the Christian Calendar?

“This question is for Orthodox Rabbis and Poskim, not random people from this Coffee Room.
(No offense intended.)”

You want me to go and ask an actual posek if saying BCE “kashers” the Christian calendar? I personally think this topic is perfectly located right where it is.

“What we are saying is that we are not counting the years from the start of their religion, but rather from the Common Era, the accepted year of counting in modern times.”

But, we are counting from the start of their religion. Saying we aren’t doesn’t change the metzius.

“So, it’s actually a Jewish calendar, based on the Churban.”

So then let BC = before churban and AD = after destruction. This way, nobody has to change anything.

“The year used in most western countries is a mythological date, and using BCE/CE is a way to make it less insulting for non-Christians.”

I think it’s more insulting to our intelligence to pretend that if you change the letters around it actually makes it no longer revolve around Christianity. That’s kind of my point.

More than half of the replies here seem to be assuming that I’m wanting to make a new chumra of never mentioning the non-Jewish date. On the contrary, I’m saying we should keep doing it in its former glory with BC and AD because the new letters are meaningless. Obviously it wouldn’t be assur since this is obviously what everyone did until a few decades ago when they invented the CE thing. My point is that the social pressure to switch to CE is silly since you’re either ways using a calendar that revolves around another religion.