Real & Unreal Millenniums

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India That Is Bharat

Satiricus

Real & Unreal Millenniums

 

DID Satiricus step into the twenty-first century last year, or did he

do so this year? Not being a Christian scholar (or even a Christian

sans scholarship) he is not sure. What makes him all the more unsure

is the statement well-known science-fiction writer Arthur Clarke

issued the other day, in which he said : "The intelligent minority of

this world will mark January 1, 2001 as the real beginning of the

twenty-first century and the Third Millennium." That of course lets

Satiricus out, because neither his worst enemy nor his best friend

would accuse him of belonging to the intelligent minority. They both

know that he belongs-and has always belonged-to the unintelligent

majority, the Hindus. What is worse, not content with being an

unintelligent Hindu, he is also an ignorant Hindu journalist. As a

result he did not know that he should have forsaken ignorant Hinduism

and embraced knowledgeable Christianity to understand the distinction

between the "real" third millennium and the "virtually real" third

millennium. To his consternation he now sees that not only are there

two Christian third millenniums, but there are many non-Christian

millenniums as well. For instance the Muslims are only four hundred

years into the second millennium, the Hindus are in the fifth

millennium according to one of their many calendars, the traditional

calendars of Israel and Egypt run into the seventh millennium, China

has its own calendar, and finally even some Christian minorities like

the Coptics are only in the year 1716. But so many millenniums need

not confuse this mutt. For the unreal millenniums are for the

unintelligent majority

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