(March 6, 2019 at 3:44 pm)Agnostico Wrote: Interesting topic. My parents are Portuguese. Has anyone heard of Our Lady of Fatima and the Miracle of the sun? Its easy to find info on it.
3 kids cliamed to have apparitions of the Virgin Mary on the 13th of every month strating from May to October in 1917.
On the 13th of September the kids supposedly asked Mary to give a sign so that people would believe them. So she said next month there will be a miracle.
About 80,000 people arrived to witness the event. According to the accounts of witnesses the sun started to spin. Defying the laws of physics it was throwing out rays of different colours and dancing around.
Then everyone began to panic as the sun appeared to move closer and closer to earth but before any collision could occur the sun went back to normal.
Sick and disable people were cured and the kids became woke with these predictions that came true. The spread of communism just weeks before the Russian revolution took place. The early deaths of the 2 youngest kids and other predictions.
When I was an atheist I never challenged my parents. One of the reasons was because I am unable to explain the miracle of the sun
Some things don't add up. Peoples stories vary in how the sun was exactly moving. The 3 kids claim that they didn't see the phenomenon with the sun.
While throughout the world no one reported seeing any perticular movements made by the sun, not even in surrounding nearby villages.
How does 80,000 people all report seeing the sun do such things? Would every major newspaper of the world print such a story if it had no credability?
Ive heard claims that because they were all believers they had a group halucination... Hehehe ye sure.
So take a closer look if u wish and see if you can come up with a decent explination of how 80,000 people witnessed this event that was documented worldwide???
How would u attampt to tell your parents that their version of events is false without ur own explination?
Who did the counting exactly? What was the original report? Who made it? Context is important. Don't ignore it.
