the change from AD to CE feels really emblematic of how surface-level and meaningless the supposed secularization of the western world is
Common Era is definitely preferable over Anno Domini, if only because christ is no lord of mine, but itās only less christianocentric in that it doesnāt overtly make reference to christ in its title. the benchmark is still the same. youāre still measuring when the common era began using the (supposed) birth of christ, separating history into āthe period before jesusā and āthe period after jesusā. this conception of history is no less defined by christianity than it was before, except that now itās easier to ignore because youāve draped it in a āsecularā, āmodernā veneer and done nothing to actually unpack the ways in which western society intrinsically centers christianity.
