It's AD, not CE. CE is globohomo commie newspeak. Anytime you hear someone using the term CE instead of AD you can just tune out because you know that person's mind has been poisoned by communism. Mark my words, they will one day change the calenders, they will change the dates, the numerical years we go by. They will erase our history.
Using CE instead of AD is just the foothold. It's called the long march through the institutions and they will take their time, a hundred years if (((they))) have to. Easiest way to blow up the globohomo poisoned commie mind is to simply ask, "What day or event starts the CE?"
Always remember to use AD, not CE.
Edit: Wikipedia: "The term "Common Era" can be found in English as early as 1708,[5] and became more widely used in the mid-19th century by Jewish religious scholars."
Yea, all who use the Gregorian Calender (especially for civil purposes) incidentally use AD in their dating. Other cultures use AD for this reason as a means of practicality.
There are perhaps better calendars than the Gregorian, but continuity is more efficient than optimization. More so if the system is universal already.
It is a miracle in itself that all of humanity has compromised to use a means of dating surrounding Christ. On a purely historical and sociological level, it shouldn’t have happened. Empires fall, religions fracture, languages diverge, calendars multiply, and yet nearly all of humanity coordinates its sense of time around the birth of Christ and what is written in scripture pertaining to the 7-day week. Even when His name is omitted (CE), the reference point remains untouched.
Our time keeping bears witness. History now has a before and an after. Time is linear, purposeful, and redemptive. Events are meaningful because they occur in relation to Christ.
It is a global confession. It is scriptural fulfillment.