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The latest miracle!
May 15, 2011 at 1:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2011 at 2:46 pm by LastPoet.)
I was roaming around the newspaper here (Portugal), and there was this poll about the miracle of the sun that happened last 13th of May. Although 57% said it wasn't a miracle, I've read the YT video comments about it and alot of stabs were being taken towards atheists.
To put things in context, as a majorly catholic country, people celebrate "our lady of Fatima", that supposedly appeared to 3 children and performed some miracle of the sun, in the town of Fatima in 13 May 1917. They now claim it happened last friday, 13th of May. Here is the footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNXXNf-8zLI
I mean really? Now I know what miracles are lol 
EDIT: What do you guys think about this? can't get any stupidier! I have talked to some of those fuckwits, explained what a 22º Solar halo is, guess the response: "Oh but it happened precisely in Our Lady's day!" Gah
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RE: The latest miracle!
May 15, 2011 at 2:47 pm
What miracle? I just see sunlight.
 A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
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RE: The latest miracle!
May 15, 2011 at 2:49 pm
(May 15, 2011 at 2:47 pm)bozo Wrote: What miracle? I just see sunlight.
The solar halo bozo, I've seen alot of those in my life 
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RE: The latest miracle!
May 15, 2011 at 3:06 pm
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(May 15, 2011 at 2:47 pm)bozo Wrote: What miracle? I just see sunlight.
Quote:WIKI:
Light passing through the hexagonal ice prisms is deflected twice, which produces deviation angles ranging from 22° to 50°. Lesser deviation results in a brighter halo along the inner edge of the circle, while greater deviation contribute to the weaker outer part of the halo. As no light is refracted at smaller angles than 22° the sky is darker inside the halo. [3] This effect is similar to Alexander's band, which lies between primary and secondary rainbows. [4]
22° halos form when the sky contains millions of variously oriented (poorly correlated) ice crystals. Some of these happen to be aligned perpendicular to the sun's light as viewed by any given observer, which produces the illuminated 22° circle, while other crystals produce the same phenomenon for other observers.
It is no miracle. Just a normal natural event. Stupid uneducated theists.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: The latest miracle!
May 15, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Wow, what a miracle! What choice do I have but to submit to my Lord and creator?!
Yeah, and rainbows are proof of Leprechauns.
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RE: The latest miracle!
May 15, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Yeah, their bishops fuck the crap out of altar boys, and god gives them a rainbow. FFS!
PS- I'm getting old, im sounding like Min
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RE: The latest miracle!
May 15, 2011 at 3:43 pm
(May 15, 2011 at 3:27 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Yeah, their bishops fuck the crap out of altar boys, and god gives them a rainbow. FFS!
PS- I'm getting old, im sounding like Min
Welcome to the club.
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RE: The latest miracle!
May 15, 2011 at 5:04 pm
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(May 15, 2011 at 3:27 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Yeah, their bishops fuck the crap out of altar boys, and god gives them a rainbow. FFS!
PS- I'm getting old, im sounding like Min
Although the manner used to express the sentiment was difficult to read.. The powerful irony in the message is exactly how I feel about religion in general...
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RE: The latest miracle!
May 15, 2011 at 5:08 pm
C'mon it's quite obviously a miracle! Only someone like god could create this, I see no other explanation because i'm just too fuckin dumb!
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RE: The latest miracle!
May 15, 2011 at 6:09 pm
This is TRULY a miracle, that NEVER happens to the sun. Just like babies are a miracle..its so rare for the sun to do that, just like it is so very rare for humans to have children...truly a miraculous sign that confirms christs existence.
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