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Originally Posted by jammies
I wrote a letter to the editor once. It was 4 sentences. The editor took out the most important sentence and left the other 3 intact so that my argument - which pointed out the contradictions and downright falsehoods of an opinion piece by a columnist - was eviscerated, and then made some kind of "well everybody has their opinion, eh?" comment at the bottom.
I guess I should've known, and I certainly do now - it's all about slanting the facts, not reporting the facts or analyzing the facts. Slant sells.
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Anno Domini is "in the year of our Lord", isn't it? That's why academics and historians are leaning towards CE, or Common Era now, although as an atheist I say, "Who cares?"
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Yep. The same thing happened to me. I wrote a letter back when the Flames sucked and they were talking about relocation, and a bunch of people had written in saying stuff like "screw 'em, let them go if they're going to hold us hostage". It pissed me off so I wrote a letter that wasn't nearly as long winded as I am on here, about 4 or 5 sentences, and they gutted it to the point where it sounded like I basically insulted all Flames fans, then they put my f'ing name after it.
And the CE, BCE thing is what started the debate in the letter I was talking about earlier. And I agree, as a fellow athiest, who cares? Really. Who gives a crap? AD, CE, whatever. AFAIC, it's just 2009.