On 9/6/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
jayjg wrote:
On 9/6/06, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
ScottL wrote:
According to [[March]], the month is named after
Mars the god of war.
The fact that he is the god of war is empirically verifiable?
We also need to abandon our days of the week. It is clearly a breach of
NPOV to go around celebrating a barbarian God like [[Thor]] every seven
days.
A significant difference being that nobody worships the
Norse/German/Roman gods these days, nor do people live in cultures
dominated by worshippers of Norse/German/Roman gods. Another is that
the names of the days are named after Norse/German/Roman gods, but do
not assert that they *are* gods. On the other hand, billions still
worship Jesus and assert he is "our God", as does the designation A.D.
The last comment is a non-sequitur.
You must be using some novel definition of the term "non sequitur".
I would also question the numerical
accuracy of your exagerated billions; the United States population isn't
that high. The term "a large number" would have sufficed.
There are over 2 billion Christians in the world; if you're going to
get pedantic, then please get your facts straight.
Be that as
it may, the fundamental premise that you and many others assert Jesus to
be your God may be true, but that implies nothing about the designation
A.D. or those who use it.
Now *that's* a non sequitur, since I never said or implied that said
anything about the people who use it.
I do not accept Jesus as God, but I still use A.D. I
think that we all
should be free to use whichever form we want,
Feel free to use what you want, Ray. In this thread we were talking
about Wikipedia's usage.
without being constantly
besieged by the forces of political correctness.
They're nothing compared to the "forces of hyperbole".
Jay.