Warren Lewington: On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:40:03 +1000, you wrote: > Well, we Christians kind of started a lot of wars a fair while ago... Right > about the crusades. Oh, and South Americans have a few yarns worth > hearing... > Didn't notice you'd stopped starting them, actually. Be a good idea if all religionists did. Ireland... Israel/Palestine ... Bosnia/Serbia/etc... (and we won't mention points east thereof ?) Loving Gods let people kill their neighbours with impunity. Sure. Yeah, well... A few of us Dawkins-ists? Dawkinsites ? unbelievers ? ok Pastafarians are entitled to a go here. But I don't see why "the year of our Lord" isn't acceptable, given it's/its historical usage. Otherwise I might insist on the year of our Flying Spaghetti Monster. http://www.venganza.org/ and some breakaways following a Renaissance and Reformation period amongst followers of the noodle might have their say, too. (Spaghetti and Pulsar Activating Meatballs). And the handy thing about CE etc is that avoids the somewhat perplexing detail that, assuming there was an historical Jesus, he wasn't born when it was assumed later he was born. So AD wasn't AD but more like AD-4 or somesuch.. And then there's the continuing problem of AD 0 ? AD 1 -- but that's another story.... ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************