I was once told that it is a sad thing to try to convince a person of faith that they are wrong or misled, as you may be causing them harm by removing something that they need. This may be true, but the dangers of not doing so are beginning to become apparent to me.
I looked at the photo link on the original post but it needed a password! So then I looked at the you tube link provided.
It shows the reflection in a cloud of a statue. (Light source provided behind said statue) Is that seriously your definition of an apparition of Mary ?
I was told by 3 specialists after nasty spinal injuries when young that I would not walk again. When I did walk again I was told that by the time I was 24.
I would be back in a wheelchair. It was not faith in God which made me try, it was faith in the infallibility of the ' experts'. I am still walking 38 years later.
Just to add my pet bla to this - I have yet to meet a Christian who agrees that the mainstay of the bible - 'the 10 commandments' actually means what it says - Thou shalt not kill - being the one everyone chooses to ignore ( Military chaplains !!!). So now you can argue that it doesn't mean that - it can't - what would we eat ?
According again to the Bible - And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food.
Perfectly straightforward. And yet I don't know any vegetarian Christians personally. I am sure they must exist. But according to ' Gods word' He told you - don't kill and eat fruit. Why oh why does every prosthetalizer I know ignore clear commands from their god and yet moan at the rest of us (even those who may actually live by those precepts without belonging to the club) and extol us to ' listen to the word of god.'
Cat - pigeons - go please. :flirt:
