[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] BC vs BCE era names

Wed Sep 6 07:23:01 UTC 2006

Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
> On 9/6/06, ScottL <scott at mu.org> 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?
>>
>> SKL
> 
> Are you asking if it's independently verifiable whether in Roman
> times, Mars was considered the God of War? Certainly it is, pick up
> any book on ancient roman mythology, and there you will find "Mars is
> the God of War" somewhere in it.
> 
> This seems obvious. Why did you ask?
> 
> --Oskar

   No I was just applying the logic that using the AD/BC system implies 
that Jesus is god means that using the names of the months imply that 
the Roman Gods were gods as well.

SKL