If being Atheist means not believing in god what year is it if you're an atheist?

A date followed by A.D. denotes the number of years after the birth of Jesus. Its partner is B.C. (before Christ). Those terms are used by those who follow the Gregorian calendar, or the Western calendar, the most widely used calendar in the world.

It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in Europe in 1582. The purpose of the B.C./A.D. dating system was to make the birth of Jesus Christ the dividing point of world history. At the time the calculations were made they made an error in determining the year of Christ's birth.

Experts later determined that he was actually born around 4-6 B.C. Those terms reveal an outdated dating system that gives privilege to Christianity, which is now recognized as not being universal. B. C and A.D. are being replaced in common usage with the religiously neutral terms C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before Common Era).

Therefore for everyone, regardless of religious beliefs, this coming year is 2016 C.E.

We use the same calendar as Christians for practicality's sake. Same reason why Christians accept the names of the planets even though most are named after Roman Gods or the names of the months which are mostly named after Roman and Greek Gods. In the west, most people use the Christian calendar, but this doesn't make them Christian - after all, we use Roman names for months and Roman/Nordic Gods' names for the days of the week (Sun, Moon, Tyr, Woden, Thor, Freya, and Saturn) without all becoming neopagans!

Answer: There are other year dating systems available in the world.(e.g. In Jewish notation 2009 CE is 5769-5770 , and in Moslem notation 2009 is 1430) Many non-Christians refer to the present date as 2009 CE (Common era) rather than 2008 AD (Anno Domini = Year of the Lord). In the same manner years before 1 CE are noted as BCE (Before Common Era) rather than BC (Before Christ) If Using a Christian calender makes you christian, does going to the garage make you a car? AnswerHistory used to be divided into BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini...In the year of our Lord).

Today many use BCE (Before the Common Era) and CE (Common Era).

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.