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Is there a scientific calendar which uses a different reference than Jesus? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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I hope questions are allowed here. I am curios if there is a different sort of scientific calendar which does not use the birth of Jesus as a reference like AD and BC. For example Kurzgesagt's calendars use the the current year plus 10000 as this represents the human better or something like that.

Would there be a way to do this more accurately? How could we, in a scientific correct way, define a reference from where we are counting years?

Also I have read about the idea of having 13 months instead of 12 would be "nice" because then we could have a even distributed amount of days per month.

Are there already ideas for this? What would you recommend to read?

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[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah I get that there isn't much direct evidence of Jesus. But when you say "Saul had his own thing going on, which wasn't entirely popular" aren't you referring to his persecution of Christians?

I thought my question was pretty simple: if Jesus didn't exist, where did the early Christians (that Saul was persecuting) come from?

We have letters from Paul, because he sent them to other Christian communities. Where did those communities come from?