BCE or BC?

At 5.15 most evenings you will find my wife and I sat watching Pointless. One of the questionslast night was about ‘Greats’ and the clue was the ruler of Judea from 37-4BCE. I was so busypuzzling what BCE meant I never got round to answering the questions. Thanks to google I found itmeans Before Common Era. What???? Apparently BCE has now replaced BC to avoid anyreference to Christianity and, in…