Visions of Mary - Is it the Same Lady?
The Roman Church claims that Mary appears to some people. They look up and
allegedly see her though nobody else does. It even claims that there is
scientific support.
It is truly outrageous how the Catholic Church claims to establish that Mary
appeared at Fatima in 1917 and Lourdes 1858 and in other places and never
bothers checking the wording of the messages to ensure that they came from the
same person. For example, at Medjugorje the Virgin always finishes with “Thank
you for your response to my call”. She never does this anywhere else even if she
is as garrulous as she as at Medjugorje. Why does she say so little at Lourdes
and nothing at Knock and talk so much at other apparitions where she repeats
herself all the time and utters trite platitudes? The personalities and wording
don’t match.
She always looks different too. At Fatima and La Salette and Lourdes she was
very white in her complexion and was darker elsewhere. The Virgin would not have
pale Caucasian skin. She was a Jewess. The view that she accommodates herself in
personality and wording and appearance to the visionary she appears to is
nonsense. Why can’t she appear as a Jew to them when they are put in ecstasy
anyway or given a spiritual high by the vision, and accept her whatever way she
appears? The apparitions are not of the same person. Even to the naked eye
looking at messages from all over the world, the style and content is so
different and that certainly points to the visions of being of something that is
pretending to be the Virgin Mary or the visionaries being liars. Even if they
are really going into miraculous ecstasy, that doesn’t meant they are seeing
Mary for real. The view that she makes herself suit the visionaries is just a
rationalisation – it is an excuse for believing in the visions as being of Mary
despite all evidence to the contrary. Obvious evidence comes first. What is seen
and heard comes first. If Mary doesn’t respect that then she doesn’t deserve her
apparitions to be believed in. Rationalisations prevent one seeing the truth.
For example, if you tell a woman that her husband was seen having sex with a
prostitute and she reasons that he was only pretending to have sex she will be
blind to the facts. Anything that encourages rationalisation, such that as those
apparitions do with them all being different, is bad. In their eagerness to
deceive people into believing in apparitions, the Church leaders keep attention
away from the obvious and even exclude it from their investigations! So when you
see a man standing over a woman murdered about a minute ago you are permitted to
overlook the possibility that he was the killer? You must ignore the most
obvious route.