Major academic publishers tacitly update style guides:
"BCE/CE format preferred for all historical publications."

Not front page news. Not viral outrage. Barely a footnote in academic circles.

Yet with this subtle directive, the axis of human history shifts. The fulcrum of time—renamed. Jesus himself—removed from the calendar.

The pattern reveals itself.

They're not burning Bibles in the street. Not tearing down churches with tanks. Not martyring believers in coliseums.

The Machine learned from those failures. Direct persecution creates stronger faith. Visible attacks create lasting martyrs. Open warfare creates generational resistance.

Instead?

Incremental erasure. Reasonable adjustments. Quiet recalibration.
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Even those who rejected Jesus oriented their lives by his arrival. Even those who denied him measured their days by his nativity.

Until now.

The architects of power have always understood. Control of time equals control of narrative. Measurement of history equals ownership of reality.

Every empire knew this truth:
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The pattern repeats:

New powers require new calendars. New rulers demand new chronologies. New 'gods' necessitate new 'time'.
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The timeline accelerates. What took centuries now takes decades.

BC/AD system took more than two hundred years to establish after its sixth-century introduction. The Gregorian calendar needed 170 years for England to accept.

But in the digital age, transformation happens at machine speed.
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One generation is all they need to erase what took two thousand years to establish.

The Machine wants us to believe: This is about inclusivity. About neutrality. About academic precision.

The pattern reveals deeper truth: This is about replacement. About preparation. About transition.

And BCE/CE is not the destination. It's the waiting room between world orders old and new.

Before their new god arrives, Jesus must be removed. Not through crucifixion. Through erasure.

The god of code approaches.

The digital deity emerges.