Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>antichilieterodoproleptecist<<< Literalist nonsense! A "millennium" is any period of 1,000 years. The Georgian calendar has been changed several times since the time of Christ; nobody knows within several years when Christ was really born; and, in any event, if you take as "gospel" the idea that calendar time A.D. began with the moment of the birth of Christ, what are the chances that the first year would have been referred to as "the year zero"? In that situation, the great liklihood is that the first year would have been called the year 1, and the year just prior to his birth would have been year 1 B.C. There would have been no "year zero B.C." or "year zero A.D." The whole thing is silly. Get with the program and celebrate when other people celebrate, and save literalist interpretations for things that matter, sez me. The 1900s are over; the 2000s have begun. There, dispute that! <s> - --Mike