Christians changed the calendar because that’s what religious people do
That’s a reductionist take. They wanted to inject their religion into culture and constantly remind everyone about it. It certainly does not define what is or is not a religion.
So atheists want to change the Calendar because… ?
Because we don’t share the Christian assumption that their religion deserves to be named in our timekeeping system. It never should have been put there in the first place, and we’re undoing the mistake.
Yeah atheism is a religion. Y’all are just in denial about it.
Not wanting to reference someone else’s religion every time you refer to a date does not make someone religious. This is a silly take, and I think you know it.
They wanted to inject their religion into culture and constantly remind everyone about it. It certainly does not define what is or is not a religion.
Yup and this Human Era calendar idea has the same reasoning. It’s just how religious people think.
Non-religious people just don’t care about these kinds of things. What’s more important is to have a standard, having different groups of people having different calendars causes a lot of confusion.
Also my calendar uses Arabic numerals, is that imposing Arabic culture on me? Or is it just that it’s convenient we all use the same numbers and roman numerals suck, so we went over to another system that worked better and it’s more important to use the same numbers than get upset over where they originated from? We could be using some other system base 10 with different symbols and it would just as well. But for historical reasons this is the number system we have, everyone uses it, and it would be a confusing pain and the ass the change it. And why would we? Because we hate anything to do with Arabs?
Same logic applies to the calendar. It’s important we have a standard and changing it would be a confusing pain in the ass. Why would we? Because some people hate Christians?
That’s a reductionist take. They wanted to inject their religion into culture and constantly remind everyone about it. It certainly does not define what is or is not a religion.
Because we don’t share the Christian assumption that their religion deserves to be named in our timekeeping system. It never should have been put there in the first place, and we’re undoing the mistake.
Not wanting to reference someone else’s religion every time you refer to a date does not make someone religious. This is a silly take, and I think you know it.
Yup and this Human Era calendar idea has the same reasoning. It’s just how religious people think.
Non-religious people just don’t care about these kinds of things. What’s more important is to have a standard, having different groups of people having different calendars causes a lot of confusion.
Also my calendar uses Arabic numerals, is that imposing Arabic culture on me? Or is it just that it’s convenient we all use the same numbers and roman numerals suck, so we went over to another system that worked better and it’s more important to use the same numbers than get upset over where they originated from? We could be using some other system base 10 with different symbols and it would just as well. But for historical reasons this is the number system we have, everyone uses it, and it would be a confusing pain and the ass the change it. And why would we? Because we hate anything to do with Arabs?
Same logic applies to the calendar. It’s important we have a standard and changing it would be a confusing pain in the ass. Why would we? Because some people hate Christians?