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I'm sure I missed the memo again, the one that told how all secular people are now to ignore 2 millenia of acceptable grammar.

Now it is becoming acceptable, even if not "proper", to speak the letters A.D. (Anno Domini) after  the year in question. It doesn't take a lot of savvy to know that Anno Domini means "in the year of our Lord" and should be, and always was, used as a precedent to a year designation. We were supposed to say "A.D. 70" or "A.D. 325" but now that is being tossed out along with Sunday being the first day of the week on our day-planning calendars. Of course, saying "the first (or third or twentieth) century A.D." is still and always has been the acceptable form for referring to centuries.

As usual, this trend is spreading to the church—which should know better. It's another one of those small things that illustrates how badly our society wants to eliminate anything Christian, however subtle. Monday the first day of the week? A.D. being used by pastors as a suffix? No, I don't like it and someone has got to get the church to wake up and fight these trends, not buy into them. PLEASE.....put A.D. back where it belongs, at least in church sermons if nothing else. If we the church can't get it right, who will ever take us seriously?