Ask a Traditional Catholic

[pocaracas]

Oh awesome... Another believer in the con of Fátima.
There was no miracle of the sun.
Three uneducated kids were conned into thinking they were seeing an apparition.

Have you ever noticed how the messages that came out of that event were geared to getting Portugal on the non-communist side of world war 1?
It worked: by the 1930s, we had a fascist regime set in...which lasted until 1974.

I would urge you to read more of the accounts of the Miracle of the Sun. A huge crowd gathered to see a miracle that was promised to the three children and their faith was indeed rewarded, that many people could not simply have been duped considering they all saw the same thing.

Did it occur to you that this event may have saved Portugal from the secularism that spread across the rest of Europe. United under one strong Catholic leader Portugal saw a golden age of Catholicism under Salazar. It may have been the highest point of Portuguese history.

I urge you to learn some Portuguese if you're going to want to read about it.
In the mean time, I was born in Portugal, so I don't have to learn it.
The earliest recorded account of the "miracle" was given by a reporter allegedly present at the event who didn't see anything, but got a few reports of people seeing something... A few... out of hundreds who were expecting something.
You'd do well to learn about psychology and how bias works.

Also, Salazar kept this country in the dark ages while the rest of the world was advancing the 20th century. There's a mentality delay of some 40 years thanks to him.
There's also the spectre of "communists eat babies for breakfast" still lurking in this people due to all the propaganda that regime instilled into us. In other countries, atheists ate babies... It's like they all learn their propaganda techniques from each other... And apply it to their perceived enemies.

The highest point of Portuguese history was a few centuries earlier... When slavery was ok. :p