THE CASE AGAINST FATIMA; OUR LADY IS LIVING IN THE PAST

Well it is quite a shock for generations born after Vatican II to hear about sin and hell, the possibility that maybe God feels hurt, and even worse that in some way God would punish the world.   It really is not very nice   And in some cases it is even worse when Father has told his parishioners that nobody goes to Hell.  Surely Mary would not contradict Father?   OK, Jesus said the same thing in the Bible that Mary says,  but the Bible was of its generation and poor fishermen may have believed such things but in our educated modern times the Bible is only the starting point of Christianity and as such we talk about it with esteem, we parade it to the altar, but we cannot take seriously so much of it, and we conform for the sake of our Community, and in the end we all have our own ideas which  are easy to conform to and make Church going so easy on a Sunday.   Father will not talk with the authority that Jesus spoke with, and was so admired for, but in this day and age he knows he must not be controversial.   The community of believers is much more important that what they actually believe..

So you can see the difficulty that Our Lady of Fatima faces.   In bringing her message from Heaven she is offending the Adult Faith of today.    The humble maid of Nazareth did not have the benefit of a University Education.   OK the sun danced in  the heavens and all that, but we weren't there, so we can justify our doubt whatever the evidence.   And who knows, when Jesus said he would come to judge us, that may well be true, but then we know we can justify what we did by telling him that we "were following our conscience"   I am sure he will be impressed by our Adult Faith.      

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