(August 7, 2017 at 9:27 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: [quote='Harry Nevis' pid='1598650' dateline='1502110591']
Didn't spot this one first time around, Diário de Notícias if you look it up on Wikipedia, was a mouthpiece of the fascist dictatorship and it's predecessor business, church and military interesta until the Carnation Revolution. As such calling it "anti-religious" when it consistently and lyingly supported the catlick church is really really low.
The second quote when googled doesn't point to the paper O Século at all but a book called "fatima, a message more urgent than ever" which attributes the quote to the newspaper without citation. Now the quote does likely come from the newspaper and Avelino de Almeida who wrote for O Século about the alleged miracle. But he didn't write anything about the event itself just peoples' impressions and reactions to what they thought they saw.
So thanks to Harry I see now the duplicity and mendacity of pabsta, who is willing to lie repeatedly in order to show his very slim case in a better light.
The DN is still around, never liked to read it as it is right wing and as a lot of newspapers, cater news for religious readers, catholics namely, given that its the major religion here. O Século (means "the century") is no more. It was a decent newspaper but went belly up along the line.
To help you understand, we Portuguese know the FFF (3 F's) That were used by the dictatorship to soothe the people. Fado, Football and Fatima. That is why they indured until 1974.
The dictatorship embraced the 'miracle' and used it to keep the populace calm. Until the carnation.
