Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Evangelism is such a fluke....You're telling me that money that could have went to feed the hungry, shelter the poor, and all that stuff went to promotion of Evangelism instead ?
Im gonna go step further, and say that it didn't even go to that, but to Mother Teresa's pocket.
But yeah...evangesomethingoranother is a fluke.
The truth about Mother Theresa
I few months ago I said that Mother Therasa wasn't a good role model and I hated her and there is good reason to do so. Goddess Kali and others said that she was a great person and I was talking crap. I tried searching for my evidence, and now I've found it! Obviously there's more to the video but you get the general idea.
Re: Myth of Mother Teresa
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
The common belief is that Mother Teresa worked with the sick and destitute to lovingly return them to health.An examination of her missions will show that this is far from the case. Mother Teresa believed that there is spiritual value in suffering.
Once, when tending to a patient dying of cancer, she said "You are suffering like Christ on the cross. So Jesus must be kissing you." (!!!)
(Christoper Hitchens - The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, p. 41).For this reason she would not prescribe pain killers in her clinics, choosing instead to allow her patients to experience the suffering that she believed would bring them closer to Christ. Despite the tens of millions of dollars donated to her charity each year, her missions were rudimentary and offered no real health care. Her missions mainly catered to the critically ill and simply afforded them a place to go to die.
Intrestingly, when Mother Teresa became ill she would travel to the finest health care facilities to receive treatment.Furthermore, her main object appears to have been spreading of the most extreme form of Catholicism, through help of Vatican, rather than saintly helping of the poor and sick.
So, why is it that a great majority of people still hold this saint-like view of Mother Teresa?
Does anyone here believe Mother Teresa was a 'humanitarian'? Or just a ruthless missionary?Discuss.
You are 100% spot on with this. She was an avid supporter of corporal mortification, much like the founder of Opus Dei. In fact, you can look at a large majority of those so-called saints that suffered from stigmata and you find out they were also practicioners of corporal mortification.
However, she did feed the poor. That was a good thing. But it should never be forgotten that she used her facilities as bait to spread her version of christianity. She fed the hungry as long as they were open to christianity. And who would refuse food just because they couldn't pretend to listen? On top of that, who wouldn't be more open to the idea if they were being told the food came from Jesus?