{"id":14070,"date":"2011-09-03T09:44:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14070"},"modified":"2011-09-03T09:44:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:44:17","slug":"australia-bc-not-pc-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/australia-bc-not-pc-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia: BC not PC enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/sydney-nsw\/the-pc-brigade-kills-off-jesus-christ\/story-e6freuzi-1226127656036\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A DECISION to use politically correct terms &#8211; which do not mention Jesus Christ &#8211; for dates BC and AD in the new national history curriculum was an act of Christian cleansing, church leaders said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>BCE (Before Common Era), BP (Before Present) and CE (Common Era) are the new neutral terms to replace the historical terms BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini).<\/p>\n<p>Removing BC and AD from the curriculum was an &#8220;intellectually absurd attempt to write Christ out of human history&#8221;, Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is absurd because the coming of Christ remains the centre point of dating and because the phrase &#8216;common era&#8217; is meaningless and misleading,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>It was akin to calling Christmas the festive season, Archbishop Jensen said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of which is BS: a civilisation that is determined to expunge any reference to its foundations from public discourse will shrivel and die \u2013 deservedly so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A DECISION to use politically correct terms &#8211; which do not mention Jesus Christ &#8211; for dates BC and AD in the new national history curriculum was an act of Christian cleansing, church leaders said yesterday. BCE (Before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/australia-bc-not-pc-enough\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[446,2225],"class_list":["post-14070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-australia","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}