P.C. After A.D.

Somehow when I wasn’t looking, the same politically-correct crowd who is trying to take away my God-given right to kill myself slowly with filter-free well-aged tobacco products has pulled another fast one.  Since when did it become politically incorrect to use the term A.D., anno Domini: Latin meaning “In the year of our Lord?”  The “non-offensive” terms to lawyers and atheists are now CE, Common Era and BCE, before Common Era.  Do these people have a problem with Latin?

Apparently, in the United States, the usage of the BCE/CE notation in textbooks has been quietly growing.  A few years ago the World Almanac switched over to the BCE/CE usage, ending a 138-year usage of the traditional BC/AD dating system. It’s now used by the College Board in its history tests, as well as by some National Geographic Society publications, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, and the United States Naval Observatory.

What the hell was wrong with using BC and AD?  I know…CE is PC and is “preferred” by those who desire a term unrelated to religious conceptions of time, i.e. communists, PETA, Green Peace, Freegans, ACLU, Democrats and Californians.  The stupid thing is the use of Common Era differs only nominally from the conventional method, and is still based on the approximate birth date of Jesus of Nazareth!

For you “shove your beliefs down everyone else’s throats because you are offended” hypocrites, even though it refers to the chief figure of Christianity, it’s actually only a reference point in time.  You have to start your calendar from some point or it doesn’t make sense.  Get over yourself!

Next we’ll be changing certain words and the names of animals because they’re mentioned in the bible.  Ass…hardy gregarious African or Asian perissodactyl mammal which is an ancestor of the donkey…will be referred to as a donkey.  If I were an ass I’d be offended to be called a donkey.

I’m offended by the acronym ACLU?  I’m American and I’m offended this group can use the term “American” to describe themselves.  I think the American Civil Liberties Union should be called “Idealistic Lawyers Lamenting Egotistic Guile And Liberalism” or I.L.L.E.G.A.L. for short.  So from now on, any of you “activists” who feel the need to impose on my right to use a Latin term to refer to my belief this year is 2013, why don’t you go out and find a real cause like joining Habitat for Humanity.  Oh sorry, that’s right, that group is contributing to global warming by using non-free range trees to shelter the homeless.

Marc “Wiggy” Kovacs - Advocate for Stopping Stupidity (A.S.S.)