History of AD-BC
- The term AD=Anno Domini=“Year of our dominator/Lord” was introduced in the 6th c. by Dionysius Exiguus (Dionysius the Little)
- who back-calculated it from his system for calculating the date of Easter.
- BC = "Before Christ" was invented later.
- My Q. why is this lie (about “birth of Christ”)
- such an essential part of of our current education system for children?
Understanding colonialism
- Bigger Q. about the source of colonial power.
- How was a vast and rich country like India ruled and looted and reduced to poverty by a handful of Britishers?
- We never understood the secret trick of colonisation
- the trick of mind capture
- with which the church priests (padres) ruled Europe (without weapons) for over a thousand years.
- The mind was captured by implanting falsehoods, myths and superstitions
- systematically spread by the capture of the education system.
- Myths and superstitions smuggled even in math and science
- The calendar is just the easiest example.
- of myths and superstitions systematically taught to you by colonial education.
Easter calculation (skip)
- Easter=Festival of the lamb sacrifice
- In early Christianity, the main festival was Easter (NOT Christmas, invented recently).
- Early Christians celebrated Easter on the same day as the Jewish festival of Passover or Pascha.
- This involved the sacrifice of a lamb as in Eid.
- The Jewish Torah, and the Christian Bible have 5 books in common (the Pentateuch)
- Genesis, Exodus, Levicitus, Numbers, and Dueteronomy
- The “passover” is described in Exodus chp. 12:1-14)
- The story that the Jewish/Christian god would kill all the first born (including those of animals) in Egypt
- but would spare (“pass over”) those houses marked with the blood of the sacrificed lamb.
- However, there was a political problem.
- The date of the Christian festival of Easter, or sacrifice of the lamb. was determined by
- the Sanhedrin – a council of Jewish priests
- which religious authority (synod) declared the beginning of the month, i.e. that a new moon was observed.
- Hence, the month of lunar phases is also called a synodic month
- or the month as determined by a synod.
- Note that this synodic month was important also for Jews, Christians, and Muslims
- but none of them knew how to calculate it as Indians did (as we will see).
- The new way to fix Easter
- Note that this involved the solar cycle (equinox)
- the cycle of the moon's phases (full moon)
- and the cycle of weekdays.
- Along with the way to determine the date of Easter
- the story about the Easter festival also changed.
- It now celebrated the miracle of the resurrection of Christ after his crucifixion.
- The superstition of "Darkness at noon"
- The Bible (e.g. Luke 23:44) speaks of "darkness at noon"
- or a solar eclipse to show the Christian god's anger at the death of Jesus.
- This is an absurd superstition because Easter is (supposedly) near the full moon
- when a solar eclipse is IMPOSSIBLE, but West was unaware of that
- at this time (5th c.) when Indians were explicitly denying the demonic theory of eclipses (as we will see).
- Summary
- The Christian calendar always concerned with Easter or the goat sacrifice
- or the death/resurrecting of Jesus
- Was related to the birth of Jesus only AFTER 6th c.
- Not through any historical evidence, but only the propagandist TERMS AD-BC
- but the West passed on that belief to us thru indoctrination: AD-BC superstition taught with AB-CD from childhood.
- The Christian calendar was wrong about the tropical year (solar cycle ≠ 365.25 days) needed to fix the year
- Hence date of equinox slipped for next 10 CENTURIES.
- It was wrong about the months ≠ lunar cycle.
- Christian/Jewish priests didn't know how to calculate month of lunar phases, hence beginning of month decided by a synod.
- The West superstitiously thought eclipses were due to god's anger,
- hence a solar eclipse could happen near full moon (Easter) as Bible says.
- It thought days of the week were "holy" (Saturday for Jews, Sunday for Christians, Friday for Muslims)
- Why do we still follow this calendar?