FROM: Terry Lynch@aol.com; POB 241035; Montgomery, AL 36124-1035 
Phone: (334) 272-4217 voice  (334) 277-3582 fax via arrangement

DATE:  July 13, 1998 

TO:  Letter to the Editor      

SUBJECT:  Reset Calendar to Zero With Moon Walk

Billions and billions of dollars are being spent worldwide to 
deal with the 2K problem and make computer software that won't go 
bananas when the new millennium rolls around.  What a waste!  Why 
not just start counting anew with zero being the day man first 
set foot on the moon!

It is an insult to the majority of the world's people to use the 
birth of Jesus Christ, a date never accurately recorded and 
significant only to Christians, as a bases for the calendar.  
Doing so gives undue prominence to an event that is insignificant 
to most of the world's population and which no one is really sure 
when occurred.

Why continue to count according to the superstitions and 
fallacies of Christian-dumb (a pun, not a misspelling)?  A new, 
modern calendar based upon science and technology should be 
adopted by modern humanity.

This calendar would use a known nonreligious event as zero from 
which to redate all historical events.  In this manner no single 
world religion would prejudice the other by trying to gain 
control of time.

I believe July 20, 1969 should be used as the new zero millennium 
date.  That is the day Neil A. Armstrong first set foot on the 
moon.  It truly represents, "one small step for man; one giant 
leap for mankind."  We could do no greater deed then to reset our 
calendars by the moon walk and put an end forever to the 
fallacious idea that Christianity is the only true and superior 
world religion.

At least then if billions and billions of dollars are spent to 
correct the calendar, it will do the job right and be money very 
well spent!



Sincerely, Terry 
Lynch Montgomery, AL