Hnau von Thulcandra wrote:I'm reading a history of the Crusades right now which capitalizes pronouns for God, but oddly enough it uses the BCE/ACE dating system. I guess the author is a devout non-Christian of some sort.

How you get that, I will never know. The whole idea behind BCE/CE is that it is neutral and secular.

I do love this though:

According to a Los Angeles Times report, it was a student's use of BCE/CE notation, inspired by its use within Wikipedia, which prompted the history teacher Andrew Schlafly to found Conservapedia, a cultural conservative wiki.[83] One of its "Conservapedia Commandments" is that users must always apply BC/AD notation, since its sponsors perceive BCE/CE notation to "deny the historical basis" of the dating system.[84]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era ... t_reaction

willhud9 wrote:If there was a special branch of atheism called Nemotarianism or something it would be capitalized. Like Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc. The capital letter does not denote any significance aside from the fact it is a proper noun.

You mean like the Brights? That's Brights with a capital 'B', wherever it appears in a sentence.

virphen wrote:

Hnau von Thulcandra wrote:I'm reading a history of the Crusades right now which capitalizes pronouns for God, but oddly enough it uses the BCE/ACE dating system. I guess the author is a devout non-Christian of some sort.

How you get that, I will never know. The whole idea behind BCE/CE is that it is neutral and secular.

I do love this though:

According to a Los Angeles Times report, it was a student's use of BCE/CE notation, inspired by its use within Wikipedia, which prompted the history teacher Andrew Schlafly to found Conservapedia, a cultural conservative wiki.[83] One of its "Conservapedia Commandments" is that users must always apply BC/AD notation, since its sponsors perceive BCE/CE notation to "deny the historical basis" of the dating system.[84]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era ... t_reaction

That's rather ironic, as I'd think that if history teaches us anything about Jesus it's that he almost certainly wasn't born in 1AD (or 1BC for that matter) but at least a few years earlier. At the very least CE/BCE usage takes us away from an event that almost certainly didn't take place at that time, regardless of what you think of as its significance.

LarianLeQuella wrote:

Hnau von Thulcandra wrote:I guess the author is a devout non-Christian of some sort.

That makes no sense. Or am I a rabid non-stamp collecting stamp collecter?

Possibly.
Is using a capital letter for a non-Proper noun a bigger offence than say bad spelling?

virphen wrote:

Hnau von Thulcandra wrote:I'm reading a history of the Crusades right now which capitalizes pronouns for God, but oddly enough it uses the BCE/ACE dating system. I guess the author is a devout non-Christian of some sort.

How you get that, I will never know. The whole idea behind BCE/CE is that it is neutral and secular.

I do love this though:

According to a Los Angeles Times report, it was a student's use of BCE/CE notation, inspired by its use within Wikipedia, which prompted the history teacher Andrew Schlafly to found Conservapedia, a cultural conservative wiki.[83] One of its "Conservapedia Commandments" is that users must always apply BC/AD notation, since its sponsors perceive BCE/CE notation to "deny the historical basis" of the dating system.[84]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era ... t_reaction

Just like here in Thailand the date is 3 February 2555 - they must be devout non-Christians!

Or maybe Hnau von Thulcandra is just a devout non-Buddhist?

Little "a".
Also science with a little "s", and I think it's better thought of as a verb - says more about what it really is.

Caper wrote:Little "a".
Also science with a little "s", and I think it's better thought of as a verb - says more about what it really is.

Which one is a verb?

I can't imagine how one would use either as a verb?

I atheism you!

I used to be a believer, but then I atheisted.

We're going to science up the relationship between the use of vitamin supplements and bowel cancer.

Interesting that if science was a verb, it feels better to make it intransitive.

I use a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence,lower case within a sentence.Could not care less what others choose to do.

gleniedee wrote:I use a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence,lower case within a sentence.Could not care less what others choose to do.

I care because capping words implies meaning. Capping 'atheism' implies that it is some how on par with things like Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, or even Voodooism. Atheism should not be capitalized not should theism.

Caper wrote:
Little "a".
Also science with a little "s", and I think it's better thought of as a verb - says more about what it really is.

Spearthrower wrote:

Which one is a verb?

Uh... "science", like it says in the sentence.
My bad - didn't realise the pedants were patrolling the area.


Was only pointing out that science is process, a way of thinking, rather than a thing be worshipped.

Okay, okay, I'll go stand in the corner with my dunce hat on for awhile.