Poll: 'Anno Domini' in other cultures

[The Gnome King]

The definitive lot of you use the phrase 'Anno Domini' when they write down years (in dates), for example this year is AD 2011.
Anno Domini is latin (and also a short version) for 'in the year of our lord'. This implies that Jesus Christ is your lord, and that you are christian.
What about people that don't believe in Jesus Christ, what do they do?
There is actually a replacement for such people, it's called 'CE' in English, and it means 'Common Era'. 'BC' would be replaced with 'BCE' - Before Common Era.
I want to ask you this -
Did you knew what 'Anno Domini' means?
What will you use now?
And lastly, Do you like bagels?

We also use "In God We Trust" on American currency, despite the fact that many Americans do not believe in God.

Personally, I feel this should annoy even Christians. Even Christ said "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar?s, and unto God the things that are God?s? - there are many interpretations of this - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar - but I highly doubt that Christ himself would ever want a currency with his likeness on it, or a saying such as "In Christ We Trust" - He would probably be horrified to be associated with money in this way, if the tales about him are to be true.

 

[Yokai]

It's become so set in stone at this point it would be futile to change it. I don't think anyone really minds all that much--we're just stuck with an arbitrary date to divide ancient and modern eras. Oh well. The system's got to be consistent worldwide for something as basic as timekeeping, so don't fix what technically isn't broken.

And bagels are fucking amazing. Those pepper-potato bagels at that one bagel place are possibly the tastiest thing ever.

 

[Subbies]

Yes.
Yes.
And TOTALLY I friggen love bagels, can't get enough of the stuff:

 

[Aurgelmir]

The definitive lot of you use the phrase 'Anno Domini' when they write down years (in dates), for example this year is AD 2011.
Anno Domini is latin (and also a short version) for 'in the year of our lord'. This implies that Jesus Christ is your lord, and that you are christian.
What about people that don't believe in Jesus Christ, what do they do?
There is actually a replacement for such people, it's called 'CE' in English, and it means 'Common Era'. 'BC' would be replaced with 'BCE' - Before Common Era.
I want to ask you this -
Did you knew what 'Anno Domini' means?
What will you use now?
And lastly, Do you like bagels?

Yes I knew what it was, no I am not Christian, yes I still use AD because it is what most people understand. It is honestly irrelevant what letters I put in front of the year... and if I would start using a different Letter I would also prefer there to start a new age. Consider that CE is still counting the years since Jesus' allegedly was born

 

[tzimize]

I'll just say 2011 flat, as I always have. At least since 2011 started. Throwing AD/CE/WE onto it just seems...pointless.

 

[Count Igor]

I find this very interesting.
And now shall use that in the future!
Thank you.

 

[Magnesium360]

Yes I did "knew" what 'Anno Domini' means. Yes I pointed out your poor declension because I'm pedantic like that. I don't often need to use AD or BC, but when I need to I usually use BCE and CE instead. And yes I do like bagels.

 

[Roxor]

I knew what it meant.

I think we should use ISO Time [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601] notation.

 

[Bre2nan]

So if we have to change AD to CE, and BC to BCE, where do we draw the line?

The days of the week mostly reference various European deities (Thor for Thursday, Frigg for Friday, Saturn for Saturday): do we change those, too? What about the month names? March references Mars, May references the Greek goddess Maia, and June references Juno. These probably aren't that big of a deal because they're dead religions, but still!!

Yeah, I'll stick to the old BC and AD unless I have to use the other ones. I'm not a history major, so I hardly use these prefixes anyway.

And garlic butter, I like my bagels with garlic butter

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

Wanting to change A.D. and B.C. to C.E. and B.C.E. simply proves that you really need to find something better to ***** about.

 

[StBishop]

The definitive lot of you use the phrase 'Anno Domini' when they write down years (in dates), for example this year is AD 2011.
Anno Domini is latin (and also a short version) for 'in the year of our lord'. This implies that Jesus Christ is your lord, and that you are christian.
What about people that don't believe in Jesus Christ, what do they do?
There is actually a replacement for such people, it's called 'CE' in English, and it means 'Common Era'. 'BC' would be replaced with 'BCE' - Before Common Era.
I want to ask you this -
Did you knew what 'Anno Domini' means?
What will you use now?
And lastly, Do you like bagels?

Answers;
Yes, I knew that.
I'm Christian, AD and BC for me unless it's in an academic paper, then the accepted convention has become BCE and CE.
They're ok, I've only really had them about 4 or five times in my life. They're no better than bread or a roll IMO.

 

[WolfThomas]

I sometimes like to preface my stories "It was the Year of Our lord [blank]" to make it sound like a legend.

 

[TheIronRuler]

Seeing as 0AD and 0CE are the same date, CE is still based on the birth of christ so it's still AD in effect anyway. Might as well keep the name the same if you aren't changing the system.
When the title was 'in other cultures' I thought you'd be making some witty point about the Islamic calendar and stuff. nvm

There is no year zero. The calendar cannot have by definition a year zeo, so it skips a year from 1 BCE to 1 CE. Therefore all centuries begin with **01 and not **00.

 

[ZydrateDealer]

I think you spell Tzar with a 'z'.

Nope it's an S.

Nope, with a "ц." It's spelled Цар, obviously

Of course how silly of me.

 

[Trolldor]

The definitive lot of you use the phrase 'Anno Domini' when they write down years (in dates), for example this year is AD 2011.
Anno Domini is latin (and also a short version) for 'in the year of our lord'. This implies that Jesus Christ is your lord, and that you are christian.
What about people that don't believe in Jesus Christ, what do they do?
There is actually a replacement for such people, it's called 'CE' in English, and it means 'Common Era'. 'BC' would be replaced with 'BCE' - Before Common Era.
I want to ask you this -
Did you knew what 'Anno Domini' means?
What will you use now?
And lastly, Do you like bagels?

AD is used because there's no reason to change it, not because everybody loves them some bipolar deity.
It in no way is an expression of faith.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I knew, and don't give much thought to it. Even as an atheist (you know, the militant kind that everyone hates), it doesn't bother me all that much. It's just a reference point, and writing 4-13-2011 (if you're American) is far simpler than writing 4-13-4,550,000,000ish whenever writing a date is necessary.

If people need to use religion to justify certain things that we can justify in other ways, I don't care too much. A date is a prime example of that.

Oh, right, and bagels can fuck right off.

 

[Michael Fjeldal]

I'm a religious studies major who took Latin, so of course I know what it means. It's an outdated term, and I use CE like most people.
Fresh bagels are the dog's bollocks. Factory made, store-bought bagels are just plain bollocks.