Talk:Fátima

So, this is what the first article I suggested became. Quite pleasing. However, I think it needs moar snark. I'll get on to it later. Impurity is the secret Unite with thy oracle 02:41, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I've added a bit more snark. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 05:53, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Moar Science
OK, all those things of the Sun dancing and whatever have scientific explanations (if it was really dancing we'd have trouble unless it's magick or whatever) and I still pity the people who may have ended blind for looking at the daystar unprotected (and it has not been the last time (and note her priorities in the second link))

Out of curiosity, have been any attempts to explain what really saw those children?. While I suspect they made it up, I doubt they had had a bad trip --Panzerfaust (talk) 21:52, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Dancing sun
What about the stars and the moon (whether or not in the morning and whatever the age of the Earth)? 82.44.143.26 (talk) 18:16, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

I think the kids (and Sister Lucia) at least believed it
Even discounting supernatural explanations, imagination is a powerful thing and Sister Lucia spent decades faithfully serving in a convent which had a vow of near-silence (except when called to speak on the subject). The children also got interrogated at gunpoint by the "slightly" overenthusiastic secular government so I tend to think its likely they, at least, were sincere. Plus, the two who died during the Spanish flu were praying fervently about the whole thing even as they were dying with the boy refusing treatment (which is something by itself).&mdash; Unsigned, by: 98.22.202.207 / talk