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Skyring wrote:
On 5/17/05, Alphax <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Skyring wrote:
On 5/16/05, Alphax <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Skyring wrote:
>On 5/16/05, Alphax <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Skyring wrote:
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>>>CE/BCE is already a standard in many disciplines. Make it so in WP.
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>>...except where use of BC and AD is appropriate.
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>As Steven said "a general policy that BC and AD represent a
>Christian Point of View and should be used only when they are appropriate,
>that is, in the context of expressing or providing an account of a
>Christian point of view."
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>I support his standard. I think it is plain common sense. Don't you?
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Reading the proposed policy page, a poll of *44* people - out of however
many million speakers of English, *44* - decided that BCE/CE was the
more favoured term. That's a mighty poor sample. And yet people are
claiming "NPOV" and "countering systematic bias".
Just answer the question, please. Evasion just leads me to wonder
about your motive.
Evasion is caused by me actually reading the page and trying to work out
what is really going on. I'm not so sure that BCE and CE are any less
POV than AD and BC are. In fact, I'm starting to wonder whether they are
in fact anti-Christian POV.
Just answer the question, please.
You mean whether it's plain sense or not? No, it's not. It's actually
/more/ POV than BC/AD is, because it makes the *assertion* that the
Birth of Jesus, whether is Christ, Lord, Prophet or otherwise, is
*common* to *all* cultures - it's Western Imperialism and Political
Correctness at its worst.
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