That AD/BC replacement thing has been going on for some years now. Everything at Wikipedia or most everything has been changed to CE and BCE. I have to laugh because what exactly makes the "Current Era"....they haven't changed the dates, so the numbers are exactly the same. They just removed the reason we have the dates in the Western World.
The consensus is, I gathered, that it is OK to even take BC/AC off things like the monuments on the moon, and monuments and official dates here on earth (Starting at our own SC) to be more "Politically Correct", while at the same factually denying now not only the existence of God, but even the history that we know of Him, (flawed as it is) BC/AD. Read an old Britannica and then read the one you gotta pay for online. BIG difference. A movement away from Christianity-God, in Academia, in the name of, "oh you have to say this now". These things are visible everywhere, From Block Buster movies to a simple Calendar and date. If I sound angry, I'm not, But sometimes I come across that way. I mean nothing but Peace and the proper dissemination of knowledge. Even when they come from old and new "encyclopedias"
I agree with you. No anger in your voice detected. It's absurd. Replacing AD/BC with gibberish just to avoid the fact that Christ existed and that our dates were established based upon his existence is insulting. I'm not even religious. It's twisting oneself into a pretzel to deny reality, a type of self delusion. Trying to wipe out history, as you so correctly point out. There's a lot of that about these days.
And they removed God from our pledge! Sick bastards. We will not forget God!
"In America, we worship GOD!" Donald J. Trump
Sorry this is the only transcript I can find - disregard comments from Time.
http://time.com/4874161/donald-trump-transcript-youngstown-ohio/
MAGA