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Title: BBC Turns Its Back on Year of Our Lord: 2,000 Years of Christianity Jettisoned for Politically Correct 'Common Era'
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URL Source: http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/the-civil-religion.html
Published: Sep 29, 2011
Author: Chris Hastings
Post Date: 2011-09-29 12:20:20 by Ada
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Views: 292
Comments: 17

The BBC has been accused of 'absurd political correctness' after dropping the terms BC and AD in case they offend non-Christians.

The Corporation has replaced the familiar Anno Domini (the year of Our Lord) and Before Christ with the obscure terms Common Era and Before Common Era.

Some of the BBC's most popular programmes including University Challenge, presented by Jeremy Paxman, and Radio 4's In Our Time, hosted by Melvyn Bragg, are among the growing number of shows using the new descriptions.

The BBC's religious and ethics department says the changes are necessary to avoid offending non-Christians.

It states: 'As the BBC is committed to impartiality it is appropriate that we use terms that do not offend or alienate non-Christians.

In line with modern practice, BCE/CE (Before Common Era/Common Era) are used as a religiously neutral alternative to BC/AD.'

But the move has angered Christians, mystified other faith leaders and been branded unnecessary by the Plain English Campaign. Critics say the new terms are meaningless because, just like AD and BC, they still denote years in relation to the life of Christ.

Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, said: 'I think this amounts to the dumbing down of the Christian basis of our culture, language and history. These changes are unnecessary and they don't achieve what the BBC wants them to achieve.

'Whether you use Common Era or Anno Domini, the date is actually still the same and the reference point is still the birth of Christ.'

Marie Clair of the Plain English Campaign said: 'As with most politically correct innovations, I am sure this was done with the best of intentions. But it is difficult to see what the point of the changes are if people do not understand the new terms. It sounds like change just for the sake of change.'

The website for BBC Religion and Ethics, headed by commissioning editor Aaqil Ahmed, who is a Muslim, is littered with references to Common Era and Before Common Era.

However, the BBC bizarrely insists the bbc.co.uk/religion website has nothing to do with Mr Ahmed and is actually the responsibility of BBC Learning.

The terms are not confined to religious output and have also been used in news bulletins. Some reports add to the confusion by switching between both terms in the same item.

A report on historic monuments in Jerusalem, for instance, informed viewers that Temple Mount, a shrine which is sacred to both Jews and Muslims, was built in '70 AD (the Common Era)'; while a recent report on frankincense quoted one reference to 7000 BC before describing another event as taking place in the 1st Century BCE.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

The BBC's religious and ethics department says the changes are necessary to avoid offending non-Christians.

but offending Christians is ok.

farmfriend  posted on  2011-09-29   12:56:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: farmfriend (#1)

but offending Christians is ok.

It's always open season on Christians. Jesus said it would be.

John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.

John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

James Deffenbach  posted on  2011-09-29   13:27:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: James Deffenbach (#2)

I think Christians need the equivalent of antisemitism.

farmfriend  posted on  2011-09-29   15:21:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#8. To: farmfriend (#4)

I think Christians need the equivalent of antisemitism.

Oh, I don't think this world is ever going to be all that welcoming to Christians. At least not most of it. And that is not a surprise to Christians, or shouldn't be. The first chapter of John speaks to this issue. It says, in verse 4, "...greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." And Matthew, chapter 5, verse 11 says, "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake." And verse 12 says, "Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."

Knowing this, what difference does it make when people who don't know better say mean things about you? The best thing to do is to pray that they will see the light before they feel the heat.

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