Is there anything more disgusting than a bunch of pathetic, envious nobodies dumping on a woman who dared to work and become famous as a result of that work?
Yes, there is! It’s the same bunch of nobodies declaring that the charitable work of others does not live up to their eminent standards in spite of providing no proof that they ever did anything for anybody.
Mother Teresa has never been of much interest to me, but you have got to be a piece of work to declare that you are dissatisfied with her charitable efforts because they don’t measure up to what you consider to be true charity.
People who are worried that the needy are not getting adequate help might consider actually doing something for those needy instead of dumping on those who do help.
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This is not about all her “charitable” efforts.
http://www.meteorbooks.com/index.html
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I was responding to a specific link.
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Only somebody really blind to the reality can complain about lack of top-notch medical care in over 517 missions in Third World countries. And all that “gloryfying sffering” as they call it was just trying to cheer up, give a little hope for better life… if not in this world then in another. I mean, what does the author of that article thinks ? What should you say to somebody who is slowly dying in terrible pain, with no adequate medical care available ?
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Exactly! It’s very easy to find fault and somewhat harder to go help somebody.
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There’s a significant difference between top-notch medical care (which I agree we shouldn’t expect in the circumstances) and services that were geared more towards reinforcing the religious beliefs of the nuns than towards actually caring for their patients. I cannot call places with a stated policy against painkillers, places which made little to no effort to diagnose what was actually wrong with the people coming in there hospices or hospitals, yet that was exactly how they were presented both to the surrounding population and to the Westerners donating enormous sums of money in the hope that they can do their part for the worse-off than them by donating to someone who knows better than they do how to run a Third-World medical facility. Only they were barely more of a medical facility than a crisis pregnancy center – and I’d have said live and let live if she was doing it with her own resources, but she received stupendous quantities of money for stuff she wasn’t actually doing, the fraud.
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@Stille
Exactly! And she sure seemed to live “High on the hog” with the stupendous quantities of money she was receiving. 😉
Really, do you honestly believe she was the fraudster? This is one of the few instances if someone cried out “THE PATRIARCHY”, I might have agreed. 🙂
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The public image of Mother Teresa is so strong that it does seem inappropriate to criticize her, no matter what her real failings were (and they were many, and awful). Here is her Nobel Prize speech: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-lecture.html. Excerpts: “The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.” “We are teaching our beggars, our leprosy patients, our slum dwellers, our people of the street, natural family planning.”
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I know. She is tremendously revered but actually was the vilest sort of self-righteous hypocrite. It is not just a question of “inadequate charity,” but of someone who did some active damage to humanity. She spent 7% of her donations on charity work, a German newspaper once reported.
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There would never be even 1% of these attacks on her had she not been a woman in a very male-dominated environment. There must be a real shortage of male evil-doers in the Catholic Church for people to obsess so much about the single well-known female name associated with it in the XXth century.
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