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Subject:bc/bce From:Henry Vandelinde <vandelinde -at- WORDTEK -dot- ON -dot- CA> Date:Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:04:45 -0500
Mark,
But, don't you think that the references BC/AD have lost their particular
Christian significance over the centuries so that the terms themselves have
been secularized. The association with the baseline has become the
dominant definition, not the actual event they originate in.
Terminology changes in time and associations lose their significance of
alter. That is what keeps the deconstructionists going. If one were to
extend your argument, we would paying pagan homage to Woden every wednesday.
Henry
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