The semi-official newspaper of the Holy See, L’Osservatore Romano, described the guidance from the BBC’s ethics advisers as “enormous nonsense” and accused the broadcaster of “senseless hypocrisy”.
The guidelines suggested that the modern phrases “the common era” and “before the common era” should be considered as potential replacements for Anno Domini and Before Christ to avoid offending non-Christians.
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2 comments:
I was seeing B.C.E. and C.E. in theology books over 30 years ago. What does that tell you? :-/ E.
E,
It tells me a great deal about the nature of some theologists.
Michael
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