A little response to "How Did the Apostles Die?"

Brian Dean errancy@infidels.org
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 22:11:24 -0400 (00933405084, 37A25B4B.DD1DDE96@worldnet.att.net) 


> > BRIDEAN

> > Oh, I forgot.  Other than the godless communists that converted on the spot

> > please also explain the following:

> > 1) The "sun miracle" occured after a heavy rain and many of the pilgrims were

> >     in the rain for a long time.  Please explain how after the "sun miracle" their

> >     clothes were completely dry.  I hardly think that overstimulation of the

> >     optic nerves would produce that effect.

> > 2) Please explain how Mary knew that Russia was going to become a major

> >     threat given that Russia was very weak at the time (this was just prior to

> >     the Bulshivik revolution) and was unable to feed it's own people.

> >

> > You may be interested in a documentary about Fatima (I forget the title)

> > which is hosted by Ricardo Montalban ("Khan" on Star Trek 'Wrath of Khan'

> > or "The Boss" on 'Fantasy Island').  This documentary gets into details including

> > a French poet who lived 40 miles from Fatima at the time who also observed

> > this "miracle of the sun" (and he was not particularly looking for such a "miracle").

>

> WL

> Oh, Mr. Fantasy Island.  Now _there's_ a trustworthy source.

> Okay...it rained, they got wet, the sun came out, they stared at it long enough to get

> dizzy and <wow!> their clothes were dry!  Somehow this still fails to impress me as a

> miracle.

> And this is the first that I EVER heard about the Russia being part of a Fatima

> prophecy.  Are you sure it wasn't made up after the fact?  Not to mention that there

> would have been very very few Spanish Communists prior to 1918, and there is no reason to

> assume that even if there had been some, they could not have been Christians as well.

> The Soviet state was officially atheistic, but not all communists and socialists have

> followed that line, in spite of Marx's denunciation of religion.

>

> Walt Loy


BRIDEAN
You will find the Russia part of it at:
http://www.fatima.org/history.html
More specifically at
http://www.fatima.org/story1.html
on the second paragraph.