In the year of who's Lord?

[17th Angel]

Couple questions.... If I may,

B.C? What does that really stand for? It can't be, "before christ".. Cause that doesn't make sense with A.D. (well it does if you say A.D. is After Death..) But It is Latin Anno domini... (the year of "our" lord)

And also why does the entire world Use BC and AD... Even those that do not believe in god or christian ways... They still call this the year of our lord.... I find that interesting.............


Adeste fidele.

 

[wil]

Couple questions.... If I may,

B.C? What does that really stand for? It can't be, "before christ".. Cause that doesn't make sense with A.D. (well it does if you say A.D. is After Death..) But It is Latin Anno domini... (the year of "our" lord)

And also why does the entire world Use BC and AD... Even those that do not believe in god or christian ways... They still call this the year of our lord.... I find that interesting.............


Adeste fidele.

Me thinks BC was latin too, and yeah it ain't before Christ or After Death or we'd end up with this 33 year limbo land...

Now the Jews are into their 7 millenium in their calendar from the beginning of biblical time but your Roman Empire created the calendar when they decided to go Christian as a state religion, hence the latin, and hence the year of their lord, Christ.

So we all use the same calendar and the same clock face and time and break the day into 24 hours as if we all didn't have some common ground it would be awfully inconvenient to set a meeting or get a plane to land.

So it is agreed, we use the Julian Calendar, we start it 3 years off the actual birth due to a fourth century screw up, we have the sabbath on Sunday to satiisfy the Sun God, and Christmas in December to combat those solstice heathens.

Now should you wish to imagine just try to convert 4 feet 5 inches and 3 thirtyseconds to meters, or farenheit to celsius, or realize that a pound of feathers actually does weigh more than a pound of gold and you'll understand while we don't all have the same lord, it is awfully handy to utilize the calendar that wasn't correctly started at his birth.

 

[17th Angel]

Thank you very much for the reply, yeah I can see it being handy and of course help keep us all in time and date and stuff... Just still very interesting that it's all based on christ..... *shrugs* just you know... heh n/m lol...

 

[Dogbrain]

Actually, it is "Before Christ". The Latin is "Ante Christum". "Before Christ" came into common use in the 1600s.