(August 8, 2017 at 1:24 pm)pabsta Wrote:(August 8, 2017 at 12:54 am)Cecelia Wrote: If the Sun danced, then why did nobody else in the country see it? Or anybody else in anywhere else in the world where it was day time? Why only those people in that one spot? Seems kind of odd to me that only those '70,000' people (the actual number there is likely exaggerated) would see the sun dancing. If you were 200 miles away, you should still be able to see it. Because that's the thing about the sun. You can see it pretty much everywhere. And why is it not in the astrological record?
But you won't address this, because you can't.
Nor can you address the fact that around half of the people there said they saw nothing, and some had differing accounts of what happened. Not to mention that it's not very miraculous in the first place. (oh look! the sun is dancing. I'm sure this'll end world hunger/cause world peace/etc..")
What happened that day? A bunch of people went to a place, expecting to see something. Some probably saw something from the power of suggestion (and perhaps from staring at the sun too long..). I can't say for certain what happened, because I wasn't there. Nobody here was. There's no pictures of the event taking place. There's certainly no video. We can only go by eyewitness accounts, which are at best hazy. Remember that many people came from all over to see this event, so they were expecting to see something, though. They were already believers. (A lot of good this 'miracle' did, convincing people who already believed that what they believe is true). So they were susceptible to suggestion.
I've already addressed this in a previous post. The author claims that from his research, the miracle was visible within a 600 square mile area. Testimonials show that everyone who was there that day saw it. There are no testimonials of people who were on the spot who said they saw nothing. Reading other testimonials confirms this. Remember, THOUSANDS of pages of testimonials were reviewed by the Catholic Church over 13 years. And as I already mentioned, the book I mentioned gives many examples of people that were NOT believers and who went to the site to mock the whole idea. They left as believers. You should really get the book because everything you are saying is covered in it.
Why do you believe the book?
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
