Ask
Prof. Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University about April 1st [1].
He is bound to tell you that on that day in 33 A.D (when in reality, the
calendar would not have been devised and divided into B.C and A.D, only to be
changed some 2,000 years later to BCE and CE) Jesus had his last supper with
his disciples, at least some of whom later became the Apostles, if I am not
mistaken.
[A] Cambridge University professor,
Colin Humphreys, has made a proposal. Using a mixture of literary and
astronomical sources, he thinks the actual date of crucifixion was April 3rd in
the year 33AD. That places the last supper (which he thinks happened on
Wednesday, not Thursday as traditionally believed) on April 1st, and the
resurrection on April 5th. So, he is asking, why not celebrate Christianity's
defining event on, or as near as possible, the day it happened?
I
say AMEN to this proposal, but not for any religious reasons. It is at that
fateful supper Jesus asked the original congregants to bite into the bread
thinking it is his body and drink wine thinking it is his blood. The disciples
duly complied. And, in my way of thinking, that is the supreme April Fool
tomfoolery!
If
only it had remained that.
Raghuram
Ekambaram
P.S I am assuming that Prof. Humphreys
did his calculations and all that on the basis of Gregorian Calendar, the
so-called secular calendar for the world.
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