Editing Common Era (section)

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The use of CE in Jewish scholarship was historically motivated by the desire to avoid the implicit "Our Lord" in the abbreviation ''AD''.{{efn| name="nostri"}} Although other aspects of dating systems are based in Christian origins, AD is a direct reference to [[Jesus is Lord|Jesus as Lord]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The American and English Encyclopedia of Law and Practice|year=1910|page=1116|quote=It has been said of the Latin words anno Domini, meaning in the year of our Lord&nbsp;...}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=World Religions At Your Fingertips|author1=Michael McDowell |author2=Nathan Robert Brown |publisher=Penguin|year=2009|isbn=978-1-101-01469-1|page=38|quote=Marked by the turn of the Common Era, C.E., originally referred to as A.D., an abbreviation of the Latin {{lang|la|Anno Domini}}, meaning 'Year of our God/Lord.' This was a shortening of {{lang|la|Anno Domini Nostri Jesu Christi}}, meaning 'Year of our God/Lord Jesus Christ.'}}</ref><ref name="Ostling">{{cite magazine |title=BC/AD Dating: In the year of whose Lord?|first=Michael|last=Ostling  |magazine=History Today |volume=59 |issue=10 |date=October 2009 |url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/bcad-dating-year-whose-lord |access-date=10 March 2023}}</ref> Proponents of the Common Era notation assert that the use of BCE/CE shows sensitivity to those who use the same year numbering system as the one that originated with and is currently used by [[Christianity|Christians]], but who are not themselves Christian.<ref name="RelTolrnc" /> Former United Nations Secretary-General [[Kofi Annan]] has argued:<ref>{{cite news |last=Lefevere |first=Patricia |title=Annan: 'Peace is never a perfect achievement'&nbsp;– United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan |newspaper=National Catholic Reporter |date=11 December 1998 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_7_35/ai_53460476 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713031248/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_7_35/ai_53460476/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 July 2012 |access-date=26 February 2008 }}</ref>

{{blockquote|[T]he Christian calendar no longer belongs exclusively to Christians. People of all faiths have taken to using it simply as a matter of convenience. There is so much interaction between people of different faiths and cultures – different civilizations, if you like – that some shared way of reckoning time is a necessity. And so the Christian Era has become the Common Era.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/articleFull.asp?TID=37 |title=Common values for a common era: Even as we cherish our diversity, we need to discover our shared values |last=Annan |first=Kofi A. |author-link=Kofi Annan |date=28 June 1999 |publisher=Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress |access-date=2011-05-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501020027/http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/articleFull.asp?TID=37 |archive-date=2011-05-01 }}</ref>}}

Adena K. Berkowitz, in her application to argue before the [[United States Supreme Court]], opted to use BCE and CE because, "Given the multicultural society that we live in, the traditional Jewish designations{{snd}}B.C.E. and C.E.{{snd}} cast a wider net of inclusion."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/magazine/bc-ad-or-bce-ce.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814202630/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/magazine/bc-ad-or-bce-ce.html |archive-date=14 August 2018 |title=B.C./A.D. or B.C.E./C.E.? |last=Safire |first= William |date=17 August 1997 |work=New York Times}}</ref> In the [[World History Encyclopedia]], Joshua J. Mark wrote "Non-Christian scholars, especially, embraced [CE and BCE] because they could now communicate more easily with the Christian community. Jewish, Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist scholars could retain their [own] calendar but refer to events using the Gregorian Calendar as BCE and CE without compromising their own beliefs about the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth."<ref>{{cite Encyclopedia |entry=The Origin & History of the BCE/CE Dating System. |title=World History Encyclopedia |first=Joshua J. |last=Mark |date=27 March 2017 |entry-url=https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1041/the-origin--history-of-the-bcece-dating-system/ |access-date=8 August 2022}}</ref> In ''[[History Today]]'', Michael Ostling wrote: "BC/AD Dating: In the year of whose Lord? The continuing use of AD and BC is not only factually wrong but also offensive to many who are not Christians."<ref name="Ostling" />