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"The War of 1812 AD"
Re: The reversion of my revision of this article to "The War of 1812 AD"
I submit that leaving off the "AD" in "The War of 1812 AD" is as intellectually dishonest as using the ridiculous and meaningless terms "BCE" and "CE". It makes the actual date of the war quite uncertain (Was it 200 or 2000 years ago? Who can say? That's an uncertainty with an order of magnitude of 10, by the way, which is a lot). Granted, this uncertainty won't confuse everyone, especially many historians, but the main point I think we should all be making here is that to remove the "AD" is to deny the very event that the date 1812 is derived from--the very conception of Jesus of Nazareth. Now, I'm no religious nut or anything, but I think we can all agree that credit should be given where credit is due. Sure, we can shorten the "unimportant" part of the date, but I think what we are really doing is cheating History.
Then there's Sevenstring's reason for reverting--That nobody calls it "The War of 1812 AD". That, I can actually get behind. Sevenstring is completely right, there. And maybe that's reason enough to keep it simply "The War of 1812". But then again, aren't there a lot of things that many many people hold to be true, that are actually false? I think many of you know what exactly I'm talking about. In this Liberal Media Saturated Environment (LMSE) where we are constantly bombarded with "conventional wisdom" and "overwhelming evidence" and "common sense" from so-called "experts" and "scientists"; isn't it worth it, every once in a while, to stand up for what we believe?
I will, of course acquiesce to the collective will of Conservapedia. I really hope that, if nothing else, this fosters some intelligent discussion on this subject.
Thank you,
Mr. Pony
I submit that leaving off the "AD" in "The War of 1812 AD" is as intellectually dishonest as using the ridiculous and meaningless terms "BCE" and "CE". It makes the actual date of the war quite uncertain (Was it 200 or 2000 years ago? Who can say? That's an uncertainty with an order of magnitude of 10, by the way, which is a lot). Granted, this uncertainty won't confuse everyone, especially many historians, but the main point I think we should all be making here is that to remove the "AD" is to deny the very event that the date 1812 is derived from--the very conception of Jesus of Nazareth. Now, I'm no religious nut or anything, but I think we can all agree that credit should be given where credit is due. Sure, we can shorten the "unimportant" part of the date, but I think what we are really doing is cheating History.
Then there's Sevenstring's reason for reverting--That nobody calls it "The War of 1812 AD". That, I can actually get behind. Sevenstring is completely right, there. And maybe that's reason enough to keep it simply "The War of 1812". But then again, aren't there a lot of things that many many people hold to be true, that are actually false? I think many of you know what exactly I'm talking about. In this Liberal Media Saturated Environment (LMSE) where we are constantly bombarded with "conventional wisdom" and "overwhelming evidence" and "common sense" from so-called "experts" and "scientists"; isn't it worth it, every once in a while, to stand up for what we believe?
I will, of course acquiesce to the collective will of Conservapedia. I really hope that, if nothing else, this fosters some intelligent discussion on this subject.
Thank you,
Mr. Pony