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Might have been funny if it wasn’t for the usul thoughtless depiction of Jesus as a caucasian man…
Technically, that wouldn’t start at 0000 AD because AD means After Death. So it’d be something like -35 AD or +35 BC.
Now that I think about it, using BC and AD for our numbering system, based around the life of a guy who most likely never existed in the first place, makes things needlessly confusing.
“A.D.” is an abbreviation of the Latin “anno domini” or “year of our lord” in English. The numbering system was established several centuries after the date Jesus was supposedly born. Later scholarship has established that Jesus coulndn’t have been born in 1 A.D., as Herod the Great was dead by then. The latest Jesus could have been born was actually about 4 B.C. The actual ‘flaw’ in the ’0000 AD’ date in the clip is that the B.C/A.D. system doesn’t have a ‘Year Zero”; it goes right from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. This was because the prevalent numbering system in the West, based on the roman Numerals we learned in grade school, doesn’t have a ‘zero’.
According to Wikipedia, the BC/AD system was used for the first time in the 8th century (CE), and became more common in European countries in the 11th to 14th centuries (Roman Catholic) and the 18th to 20th centuries (Eastern Orthodox). “Regional years” were used before then.
Ah. I was told BC and AD meant “Before Christ” and “After Death” respectively. Maybe in Sunday school. It made sense, and still does(in a wacky way) but I’m glad to know the true origin of those letters.
That’s why it is more common with non-religious folks to use CE and BCE.
Maybe we should go one step further and say that we live in 225 EE (Enlightened Era). ;-)
… so-o-o–o-o where did YOU see the reference to A.D ?
Its so funny how ridiculous this story is, sadly adding the Terminator in really doesn’t increase the absurdity.
Laughed out loud :-) Funny because it’s true!
I saw a cartoon, I forget where, of the Terminator running down the hill from the cross with Jesus slung over his shoulder while shooting Roman soldiers. The caption read (and I paraphrase): “I’m saving you now, Jesus, so we won’t have to deal with your bullshit in the future.”
one of the great Mad TV sketches.
Where did the shotgun come from?
*Sigh* It’s a comedy sketch, you don’t have to take it apart just enjoy it. Save the logic for when someone tries to pass there superstition off as real history.
Besides none of you noticed that in the opening scene the constellations are all wrong.
Well, I gave it 9.7 out of 10.
LOL… Loads of fun. Thanks for making it. I’ll pass on the site.
You know, when I first saw this, I thought that the portrayal of Judas’ place in the Xtian mythology was interesting. Why do the Xtians revile Judas, without him, Jesus could not have ‘died for their sins’. Shouldn’t Judas be hailed as a reluctant saint rather than have a special place in hell reserved for him?
Of course, this was after I stopped laughing at “STOP KILLING JUDAS!”. Man,
Judas had to betray Jesus for the whole “sacrifice myself to save humanity from the flaws I created them with” plan to work. Judas went to hell for eternity, Jesus only went for three days; doesn’t that make Judas’s sacrifice greater?