Do people even know what the years represent?

"I must be the only one who laughs a little bit when I ask an atheist what the date is and they say 2014"

You're right, you might actually be the only one who laughs at this.

You're really stretching your imagination now! The calendar dates were set by Christians in a time when the western world was ruled by the church. The church forced itself on everyone so of course everyone used it. We still use it, big F deal, it doesn't prove anything about the existnce of God, only that the church had a lot more power than it does now to impose itself into every aspect of society. When it is already in common use, what would be the use of inventing another calendar? Wake up and think like an adult. Your argument sounds like a child hollering "nah nah nah NAH nah nah!"

2014 years since some date that some monk decided a demigod was born on. It turns out that there's two conflicting narratives of that demigod's birth, with one stating he couldn't have been born after 4 BCE, and one stating he couldn't have been born after 6 CE. So I guess it's 2014 years since the window where your holy book states your demigod wasn't born.

Having a year number that derives from a myth doesn't make that myth true. It just means it's convenient to stick to the convention.

Today is Wednesday, Odin's day. The month is January, honoring Janus, the god of doorways and beginnings and endings. I guess that means you worship Odin and January. When you laugh at people using a conventional calendar, you're only making an *** out of yourself.

What - you're suggesting that just because he doesn't believe in deities, an atheist should use a calendar other than the one generally accepted by the developed world? Don't you think that would be a touch inconvenient?

Most atheists I know aren't so insecure about their convictions as to feel threatened by a calendar that happens to have been developed by a religious institution, but is nevertheless in use by most developed nations and the people in them regardless of religious conviction or lack thereof. You must be VERY easily amused.

2014 years since they adopted this calendar. Two thousand years ago they believed the earth was flat and that all illness was a result of demons entering your body....but using the same calendar doesn't support that insanity either,

Seriously...you people are really scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to make this any kind of acknowledgement of your ridiculous sky-fairy.

The Chinese calendar is different. It would be ironic if all this rank superstition was simply the result of starting a dating system 2014 years ago.

Its 2014 years into the Common Era (CE)

For Christians it might be AD, for non Christians it will always be CE. We have been using CE since the early 1700s for your information.

Its 2014 years since the establishment of the common era (I thought I already told you this) or arguably the establishment of the Georgian Claender in which we have been using for the last 2,014 years.

It was devised in 525 by a monk, Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Small) to replace the old Roman Calendar. He was off by a few years.

New years is a very atheist holiday.

It has been 2014 years since Christ died! Whip out your beers and start the bonfire! We're going grave dancing tonight!

Our solar system is on a far flung arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, so what does time really mean?