(August 7, 2017 at 2:18 pm)pabsta Wrote: What a lame argument. I can't believe you are trying to equate alien sightings to Fatima. Alien sighting testimonials are ONE person at a time - they are very easy to dismiss because the person may not be mentally stable, may be lying, may be paid etc. You cannot say that about THOUSANDS of witnesses at Fatima all at once, most who did not know each other, and many who had different religious beliefs. C'mon now.
Not lame at all.
First of all, there are reported cases of multiple abductions from the same incident.
There are also MANY cases of multiple mass sightings.
But lets look at a just a few problems with the Fatima incident:
There were many people, a sizable minority, there that reported nothing unusual at all.
There was a known giant sandstorm over the Sahara desert several months before, that was know to have caused many unusual atmospheric events all over the world leading up to the time of Fatima.
The interviews done, were done many years after the alleged event, by a Catholic Priest. No, not to much bias there. No sir, none at all.
No one in any other part of Europe noticed a thing in the sky. No astronomer noticed a thing. Nothing catastrophic happened to the Earth and solar system. Oh, but that is part of the 'miracle', right?
I could go on, but why bother.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.