06-21-2006, 04:02 AM
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<b>Da Vinci is Da Truth?</b>
Ringside view | Ashok Row Kavi
June 17, 2006
Just imagine! Just imagine all the Gandhiana in the country being written not in the 20th Century but in the 24th Century. How authentic would you think it would be? Well, I have news for you: the earliest the Christian 'Gospels' can be historically dated is that far away from the 'birth' of Jesus. The very 'fact' of that lovely fable of Bethlehem can be traced to Emperor Constantine's mother, the ebullient, effervescent Helena who "discovered" Bethlehem and then went on to discover so many pieces of the Holy Cross that if they were put together we would have a crucifix 200 feet high! However much they try, Christians can't seem to date modern Bethlehem further than 330 CE (Common Era) which is again four centuries after Jesus of Nazareth was allegedly born. The caustic American Gore Vidal has put it down quite vividly in his biographical fiction (again) on Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of the Byzantine Empire situated in what is now modern Istanbul, formerly Constantinople.
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<b>Da Vinci is Da Truth?</b>
Ringside view | Ashok Row Kavi
June 17, 2006
Just imagine! Just imagine all the Gandhiana in the country being written not in the 20th Century but in the 24th Century. How authentic would you think it would be? Well, I have news for you: the earliest the Christian 'Gospels' can be historically dated is that far away from the 'birth' of Jesus. The very 'fact' of that lovely fable of Bethlehem can be traced to Emperor Constantine's mother, the ebullient, effervescent Helena who "discovered" Bethlehem and then went on to discover so many pieces of the Holy Cross that if they were put together we would have a crucifix 200 feet high! However much they try, Christians can't seem to date modern Bethlehem further than 330 CE (Common Era) which is again four centuries after Jesus of Nazareth was allegedly born. The caustic American Gore Vidal has put it down quite vividly in his biographical fiction (again) on Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of the Byzantine Empire situated in what is now modern Istanbul, formerly Constantinople.
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