Jesus must disappear from history.
Actually, he must really stop popping up as a pivot point of history itself: Before and After Christ, we say and we write.
That’s enough.
At least in Australia.
At least on students’ textbooks.
The perplexing proposal that reached the Australian public education authorities in charge of education programs for students from kindergarten to twelve years of age is definitely motivated by a “politically correct” intent: all traditional references to the terms “BC” (before Christ) and “AD” (after Christ) will be replaced by the more “neutral” EV (before the Vulgar Era), BP (Before Present, to be used according to specific instructions for ancient history and archeology) and CE (Common Era).
An innovation that was supposed to become effective immediately, but that due to the outcry it caused could be delayed.
Interviewed by the Australian Daily Telegraph, the Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen in the past few days spoke of an “intellectually absurd attempt of erasing Jesus from history”.
Reverend Fred Nile said, “It is absolutely shameful. What they are trying to do is to remove from our history the role that Christianity played in creating the consciousness of the Country.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Education, Adrian Piccoli, stated that the Ministry was not concerned about the changes and he added that by now terms such as BP or CE are already commonly used.
Christopher Pyne, spokesman of the opposition on education related matters, noted: “What Australia is today is the result of the Judeo-Christian heritage of western civilization. The embarrassing removal of “Before Christ” and “After Christ” is an attempt at denying our being a people”.