RE: Telling children that they are going to hell is abusive?
February 8, 2020 at 7:48 am
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(February 8, 2020 at 7:13 am)LastPoet Wrote:(February 7, 2020 at 7:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Not to mention that, at the time of the Fátima incident, Portugal was undergoing a kind of religious hysteria. Funny how that works.
Boru
When it comes to times of war, illiterate indoctrinated people cling to anything. The first republic wanted to increase secularity and literacy methods, but due to war and other factors, dictatorship took place and they fully embraced and exxagerated the accounts. It served them well.
Portugal was at war. but it was not a dictatorship. The state did not embrace and exaggerate the claims. As I've already mentioned it was anti-clerical as was a great deal of the press. Contrary to what some here might believe the Catholic Church is not quick to accept these claims. In the case of Fatima, as I've already mentioned, thirteen years passed before it was deemed 'worthy of belief'. So at the time, the Church did not embrace it. It is still considered a private revelation. No Catholic is obliged to believe Mary appeared to these children.
Even if what you say is true how does the state or the Church or anyone else get tens of thousands of people, Christians and non-Christians, to see what they saw about the sun? This is well documented. Their testimony has been written down. Even Fake and the other guy would have to accept that is evidence.
