Removing the savior?

A letter writer to the Times News is upset because scholars are changing BC in dates to BCE (before the common era) and AD to CE (common era).

He says ”Christians must fight this latest dastardly attempt to remove the savior of the universe from the pages of history.”

Actually, the change is long overdue.  First of all, BC and AD are asymmetrical.  BC is in English (before Christ) and AD is from the Latin Anno Domini, or “the year of our lord.”  Some people try to read it as “after death,” but that would leave a gap between BC and AD.

BCE and CE make things easier.  We are in llyar 5778 of the Hebrew calendar, if I read the Wikipedia article correctly.  The Muslim calendar puts us in 1439.  The Mayan calendar is actually three separate corresponding overlapping calendars.  No wonder they died out.  I didn’t look up the Chinese, Buddhist, or Coptic calendars because I was getting a headache.  Let’s stick with CE and BCE.