Are you a Christian, by chance?  Do you believe that Jesus is actually the Son of God?  
I am not a 'Christian' except in the sense I have been raised in the Judeo Christian traditions
Yeah, I was also raised that way. Christianity, after all, has played a huge role in how Western civilization was shaped.  The Romans were Christianized, and then inevitably, the rest of the West.
Yes, Christianity also made some inroads in the East, but not nearly to the extent in Western areas
civil calendar; and the calendar itself is measured from the date of Jesus's birth.
The cultural influence of the Church has been vast. Church scholars preserved literacy in Western Europe following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. During the Middle Ages, the Church rose to replace the Roman Empire as the unifying force in Europe. The cathedrals of that age remain among the most iconic feats of architecture produced by Western civilization. Many of Europe's universities were also founded by the church at that time. Many historians state
Pilate. According to his followers, three days later, "God raised him from the dead". Forty days after his resurrection (Ascension), the Christian Gospels narrate that Jesus instructed His disciples thus: "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with