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Can we please just switch to “Human Era” dating?
Kurzgesagt?
Yep. Kurzgesagt!
I welcome you, fellow human, to the year 12,024 👍
AKA “Holocene calendar”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
Trees, am I a joke to you? I do not disagree with having a better year 0, but this video is making a lot of assumptions.
Such as…?
What represents us all, what makes humans special, that we are the only species to colonize the earth.
Christians changed the calendar because that's what religious people do. There's a Buddhist calendar too, ya know?
So atheists want to change the Calendar because... ?
Yeah atheism is a religion. Y'all are just in denial about it.
What do you believe atheism worships?
Depends on the sect.
Go on then, pick any three sects. Or just any.
Well the most common sect is the people that have been harmed by a religion. Usually childhood trauma. They were raised in religion and want a similar group to express their anger over the trauma they experienced. They have extreme hatred for their former religion but usually tolerance and even respect for religions besides the one they were hurt by. You can usually spot this sect because they have an encyclopedic knowledge of scriptures and spend a lot of time pointing out paradoxes in them. These people's thoughts are dominated by God more than most religious people.
Another sect is the science vs. religion sect. They see religion as an adversary to science because they misunderstand both religion and science. They confuse theory with fact, they think God can't co-exist with evolution, etc. Since they consider science to be a belief system they tend to be bad scientists. Science requires skepticism and curiosity which contradicts their dogmatic view of science. These people worship Richard Dawkins. Sometimes Charles Darwin, even though Darwin believed in God. But the fact that Jesus was a Jew doesn't prevent Christians from hating Jews, religion is just weird like that.
Another sect is the Communist sect. They believe in an apocalyptic end times as Karl Marx prophesied. This is the most fundamentalist sect, most likely to commit violence. In fact more deaths have been caused by this one sect of atheism than by all other religions combined. Most atheists don't consider it to be a sect of atheism because it's ideology. Ideology is a set of morals and beliefs on how a society should be structured, nothing at all like a religion, right? They worship the man with the big beard that gave them their prophecy.
But all atheists share a common belief that their religious bigotry is different from the bigotry of other religions because "atheism is not a religion." The think of themselves as free-thinkers that figured out things about religion that other people are to dumb to understand. But fail to apply the same criticism to their own beliefs because they think aren't beliefs is "reality." Don't understand that's how every religion works. Atheist groups are generally about expressing ignorant hatred towards other religions.
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?
Citation needed.