Australia to remove BC and AD from school history books
The decision by the Australian government to ditch the Christian calendar in school history books has been met by anger.
Instead of BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini), the curriculum will use BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) instead.
The change in abbreviations does not equate to a change in dates, but the Archbishop of Sydney the Most Rev Peter Jensen has described BCE and CE as “meaningless”.
He said the move yesterday was an “intellectually…
Added by Morgan Matthew on September 13, 2011 at 11:38am — 14 Comments
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