highwaystar101 on 28 March 2010
| bimmylee said: The greatest man who ever lived? Here's what I think... Every time a newspaper publishes a date (or even any time someone posts on this forum, since every post contains the date), it is a testimony to the centrality of Jesus Christ. When we call this the year 2010, we are acknowledging that Jesus Christ is the central focus of history. This is the year 2010 AD, 'in the year of our Lord'. If that isn't influence, I don't know what is. |
That's mostly only because the Gregorian calender is practical. In fact most countries reject the religious meaning and do away with B.C. and A.D. and replace it with B.C.E. and C.E., effectively making the calender secular. They don't use it because of religion, they use it out of practicality.
That aside, other calenders are still used around the world, there's the Islamic calender, the traditional Chinese calender, the traditional Indian calender, the Buddhist calender.
