Shattering The Myth Of Mother Teresa.
http://www.daylightatheism.org/2008/05/mother-teresa.html
http://indianrealist.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/the-squalid-truth-behind-the-legacy-of-mother-teresa/
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Shattering The Myth Of Mother Teresa
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Aussie Oz
ah, nothing in this world is as it seems...
Is this another tale of 'follow the money' i wonder. Somebody had to be pocketing all the donations going her way if she wasn't spending them on the clinics...which it seems quite verifiable that she was not.
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cofty
Thanks for posting those links. I was familiar with Christopher Hitchen's writings against Mother T, she was a thoroughly unpleasant individual.
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Band on the Run
A personal care attendant was a nun in her order in the Bronx. She was repelled by the living standards, feeling that poor people deserved to live well. The order had a view that poor people would be comfortable with that much. Overall, I admired her until reading this post. It is sad. The former nun had to leave the order b/c of the stress. She grew up in a small town and was assigned to the South Bronx with only the barest training.
I've mentioned before that I was in utter agony with very severe pain for a long, long time. Never did I feel Jesus wanted me to suffer. In fact, I felt that since he experienced such pain during crucifixion, he might identify with my pain. Pain alienated me from God. C.S. Lewis, the great Christian writer, saw pain as not a bad sort of thing when he wrote The Problem of Pain. He life progressed and he certainly changed his tune when he saw his wife suffer from terminal cancer and experience grief. He wrote another book in which was no longer a good thing.
I hope I can find Christoper Hitchens book in my local library.
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ziddina
Dunno about "mother" Theresa personally, but one thing always did bug me...
The primary underlying factor behind the poverty and misery in India, was OVERpopulation...
And here she was, supporting one of the BIGGEST enemies of birth control on the planet...
NOT bright...
I used to joke that she supported the pope's anti-birth-control dogma because without it, she'd be out of a job...
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james_woods
Brooklyn? India?
I thought she was working in Bangladesh -
Anyway, I remember stories like this about the real Mother Teresa versus the Legend from years back.
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ShadesofGrey
Hmmm... sound familiar?
Teresa considered converting the sick and the poor to be a higher priority than providing for their actual needs, and believed that human suffering was beneficial and even "beautiful".
Here is one of interest to Christians:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1655720,00.html
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Band on the Run
Her order expanded beyond India. The South Bronx is so poor it is hard to put into words. It seems she may have been a product of marketing. I feel other nuns and priests exist that could also be marketed to impress people.
I recall during her lifetime that many Hindu Indians raised the issue of birth control. She was often asked about it by reporters.
Reading wikipedia, I gained the impression that she never provided true medical services but only assisted by way of company during death throes. Did she provide any pragmatic service?
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dgp
Band on the Run: ccording to Christopher Hitchens' book, she never really provided "health care" as understood in a clinic. Her purpose was to help people sort of come to terms with their pain.
But the worst aspect seems to have been the fact that the entire operation was based on the idea that by doing good, God would reward her and would send her to heaven. The purely human aspect of relieving pain, healing the sick, whatever, that was not the idea; the idea was to make it to Heaven. The sad truth is that many a religious person feels this way, too.
Hitchens' book is available here:
I had another personal shock when I saw that she accepted stolen money and refused to return it. What is more, she wanted leniency for the "financist". This, if we believe a letter received in California, bearing the stamp of the time, date and place of reception, with the letterhead of the Missionaries of the Charity and Mother Teresa's own signature.