The subject of which day Christ died began to be hotly debated a few hundred years after His death. In the council of AD 325, the leaders of the Roman "Imperial Church" thought it to be in the best interest of the Church to disassociate their ritual celebration of the death and resurrection of Christ, which they now called "Easter," away from the annual Jewish Passover event. They actually wanted to divert attention from the Jewishness of Jesus...