The Camera tells us that the 1917 Miracle of the Sun at Fatima was no miracle
The greatest alleged miracle of the twentieth
century has to be the miracle of the sun at Fatima in 1917. Though
science found the sun did not move, thousands of people at Fatima are said
to have thought it
magically did move thanks to the long dead mother of Jesus appearing there
and making it move.
Some books would have you think that it had no less
than 70,000 witnesses (eg. Fatima Revealed and Discarded, page 168). But if
you look at the photographs you see that this was an exaggeration.
The papers gave a range of between 30,000 and
100,000 people. That they couldn't get their figures half right is a warning
bell. If you look at the press photographs you will remember that
photographers would have snapped the largest part of the crowd. Bearing that
in mind we see that the crowd was not as big as the Church and the papers
and the priests tried to make out. Also, there were a lot of children there.
Why are there no accounts of children going berserk during the scary part of
the alleged miracle?
During the miracle which would have been terrifying if real, why are those witnesses below all so calm?
If you study the photos, a lot of witnesses were
shielding their eyes during the miracle and squinting. No wonder they were able
to look at the sun!
The Crowd During the
Miracle of the Sun – from www.fatimaconference.org
Notice that the photos show they were taken in ordinary light.
The miracle then didn’t show up on camera!
Some people had to shield their eyes to look at the
sun.
Others look too relaxed to be seeing a
miracle.
Some are not looking at the sun at all.
Our photographer didn’t see much when he was so interested in photographing the people!
Despite all the photographers who were present there
are no photos of the sun or changes in the sky or any physical evidence. It is
psychologically unthinkable that with the photographers who were there none
attempted a photo of anything other than the crowd. The photographer who
could snap the sky during the miracle and present a photo with nothing out of
the ordinary would have been a hero with the secularist regime that desperately
wanted to believe the Fatima tale was delusion. There is nothing to
indicate that anything odd happened in the sky. The best the defender can
do is produce photos of eclipses in far away lands! (page 78, The Evidence for
Visions of the Virgin Mary). The photo directly above is an example of one
such fake. The Vatican's own newspaper was guilty of promoting a lie.
It appeared in 1951 by L’Osservatore Romano. Interestingly according to
some the picture seems to hail from 1925 when it was thought the sun was
behaving oddly at a town in Portugal. It is easily seen though that the
picture itself does not look that strange which makes one wonder was there a
culture of imagining signs in the sky.
The absence of any solar picture either for or against the solar miracle is a far bigger wonder than the miracle itself.
The Church promotes the lies even today.