The Catholic Church’s semi-official newspaper has labelled the BBC’s ‘religiously neutral’ terms for dating history as ‘senseless hypocrisy’. L’Osservatore Romano also described the BBC website’s suggestion that BCE and CE should be used instead of BC and AD as ‘enormous nonsense’. Last week, the broadcaster was attacked by religious figures and some of its leading presenters for adopting the terms in order to avoid offending non-Christians. The corporation says it is not enforcing the system but some programmes are already using it. However, a spokesman for the Department for Education said that BC and AD are not offensive, and recommended that teachers keep using them. Meanwhile, a Thomas the Tank Engine DVD has attracted criticism for omitting the word ‘Christmas’, referring instead to a ‘decorated tree’ and ‘winter holidays’.
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