If Jesus did not die for humanity it would not be 2020! [Spirituality & Religion]

@newjaninev2 My calendar? I think it is, The year of our Lord 2019 everywhere!

@Carazaa Gregorian calendar2019
Ab urbe condita2772
Armenian calendar1468
Assyrian calendar6769
Bahá'í calendar175–176
Balinese saka calendar1940
Bengali calendar1426
Berber calendar2969
Buddhist calendar2563
Burmese calendar1381
Byzantine calendar 7527
Chinese calendar 4715
Coptic calendar1735
Discordian calenda 3185
Ethiopian calendar. 2011
Hebrew calendar5779
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat2075
- Shaka Samvat1940
- Kali Yuga5119
Holocene calendar12019
Igbo calendar1019
Iranian calendar1397
Islamic calendar1440
Japanese calendar Reiwa 1
Javanese calendar1952
Juche calendar108
Korean calendar4352
Minguo calendar108
Nanakshahi calendar551
Thai solar calendar2562
Tibetan calendar2145

Apparently not

By the way, what year is it on Alpha Proxima? Cygnus 1? Any planet you might care to name say 4 million light-years from Earth?

@Carazaa While we’re spending a little time in reality, consider this...
Go into space and travel at, say, 99% of the speed of light for, let’s say 7 years.
It’s 2019 when you leave, and you return 7 years later... in 2026, right?
Wrong.
When you return to Earth, it would be 2070
You’ve been sitting in your spacecraft, watching the clock and marking off the days and years on your calendar, and you know that 7 years have passed... but on Earth 51 years have passed.

So much for your calendar, and so much for your concept of time... split or not.

@newjaninev2 don't think many on here will travel in space

@newjaninev2 I am not sure what your point is. I have Islamic friends and friends from all over the world, they all agree that it is 2019 ha ha, you are hilarious🙂

@newjaninev2 So in your country its not 2019 ha ha?

@Carazaa My point is that anyone can use any calendar they choose to use... that the starting point of any calendar is completely arbitrary.

We could decide to ‘split time’ by measuring years from Shakespeare’s death... which makes this year 403 A.S.

That would be just as valid as any other system. If you want to know what year it is, it’s now. No matter what label you put on it, it’s just now. To proclaim that there’s something special about the number of years since some guy Jesus died is just plain arrogant. Others go along with the imposition, because it’s easier that way, and helps different parts of the world stay in step... but at the same time different parts of the world have their own calendars, and if islam were ever to become dominant in the world you’d be stunned at how quickly muslims would drop your calendar into the bin and start using the islamic calendar.

@TheWildEcho
My point is that even the length of a year is completely dependent on the observer, and isn’t some fixed and absolute period of time. If we say it’s now 2019 then the question becomes 2,019 of what? The answer to that depends entirely on who’s asking the question and who’s answering the question... and their answers will not necessarily match.

@Carazaa Incidentally, the Iranian calendar is now the official calendar in Iran and Afghanistan and used for daily life. In those countries this is officially the year 1397... not the year 2019.

@Carazaa uh, you're wrong. Muslims and Hindus have their own calendar. Hindus celebrate their birthdays and festivals according to their calendar. They don't believe in time 'splitting' into two.

Since Christianity is the major religion in the world, it kind of universally accepted. Jesus's death doesn't have to do anything about it.