Re: First post of 2008? (Look! Brand new subject! Reassuringly off-topic!)

[Stefan Sandberg <keffo.sandberg@...>]

Just because you view the aforementioned character in the aforementioned 
book as being religious doesn't mean I do.

I'm just pointing out that it's about as arbitrary as starting a count 
from anything else, the erection of Stonehenge,
the first pyramid, or when prince Vlad 'The Impaler' Draculea died in 
1476...

Shane Lee wrote:
> > Or, for that matter, labeling time as an offset since the death of a
> > character 2008 years ago in a book...
> >
> >     
>
> FYI: Anno Domini (or AD) actually attempts to calculate the "birth" of
> Christ, which consequentially was not recorded in "a book" but rather
> four separate books with four separate authors.
>
> This is waaay off-topic so I will post no further on this issue,
> however it appeared to be an attack on my religious beliefs made in
> ignorance which I cannot in good faith stand idly by and swallow. If
> you wish to make semi-religious postings, might I suggest you take it
> off-list and direct them to me, since I am more than willing to back
> up any of my statements with historical records instead of knee-jerk
> reactions to the Discovery Channel.
>
> -Shane
>
>