Lucia, nothing against her, was suffering from some...

My friend you don't know what I believe and it is unwise to adopt any position without facts. Incidentally there are millions of competent, degreed professionals that believe in a Supreme Being (even nuclear physicists). Asia is older and has dominated before. History has a pendulum swing that seems to repeat itself. Western civilization has dominated since the time of Alexander but accomplished this largely by military conquest rather than intellectual enlightenment. The decline of Western civilization is not being caused by religion. Study your history a bit more and you will see that EVERY empire has eventually fallen because its system of resource distribution (i.e. economy) became unable to support its constituents (even Rome, the Mayans and Great Britain). Empires typically become wealthy by conquering and pillaging others. Unfortunately the only mechanism that postpones their eventual decline is war.

I am curious about Fatima and many, many other events (like why primitive man would build a pyramid 4500 years ago with perfect mathematical precision, aligned with the stars, thought to be a tomb but no one was ever buried in it). Such things only make me realize that we may not have all the facts (even about our own little planet).

The Hubble Telescope proves that there are billions of stars and planets so how could there only be intelligent life on one planet? Now since most “alien abductions” suspiciously occur at night in the bedroom I rather doubt most of them are anything more than “rem” sleep. However, that does not mean we are alone in the universe. The supernatural is possible but what Lucia saw may not have been of supernatural origin.

So I am still waiting for proof that this event never happened. I would also like to know how Lucia knew about World War II. Am I asking too much from the so-called enlightened mind?

Yes he did. I think I even saw that a while back. Ricardo was always a class act. Thank you for recognizing the source of the quote.

Quite well in fact.

jsrrtzjr10, you are not an unintelligent man just a bit myopic (I mean no disrespect) around the edges. The only absolute is that there are no absolutes. I can say that and still believe in a higher power. Even Jesus hinted that mankind had almost no real understanding of God at all. You see, the world is far more than we know. The more mysteries I try to unravel (much by the use of etymology, historical research and scientific methodology), the more humbled I become. I have hence learned to wait for the “fat lady” to sing before making what amounts to pontifical statements.