So it seems there is a battle I repeatedly see over Mother Teresa. Hitchens I don't trust cuz I saw him in a debate with a pastor where he made multiple bitter hateful remarks, glorified atheism, and the only thing he had to say about Mother Teresa was " the Albanian Troll" and the "old *****"
To call a woman that who loves those who were unloved and taught others to do so and dedicated her life to easing other peoples suffering destroys his credibility IMO.
Mother Teresa belonged to a religion that doesn't see suffering and death as always a bad thing, so at times she spoke highly of suffering (and suffered tremendously herself.)
So, some would say that is dark and inconsiderate of her to glorify suffering. However, she dedicated her life to feeding the hungry, giving to the needy, Sheltering the homeless, taking the dying off the streets , and giving them shelter , a mattress , and die with dignity and love, and taught others to relieve the world's suffering and misery.
So, to a certain certain extent she did not love suffering or she would not have dedicated her life to easing other's pain and encouraging the rest of the world to do so.
Christianity, Muslims, and Hindus make up more than 4 billion people in our world and they speak highly of suffering. Hindus and Buddhists go on starvation diets and many pagans do as well.
So, far more than half of the world adheres to religions that to some extent glorify suffering.
So, most of the world probably does not object to Mother Teresa's positive comments about suffering.
Mother Teresa allegedly said that AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases were a punishment from God for sexual immorality. Although such views are unkind and offensive , those are very common views in any monotheistic religion, and if everybody was to not engage in behavior that Mother Teresa would consider sexually immoral, many of these STDs would not be able to survive or hardly ever spread.
She allegedly denied certain missions painkillers. I don't know the credibility of this claim , but at the same time I have seen multiple deaths from drug overdoses in my life and every one of them was from opioids. An enourmous amount of talented people and celebrities were robbed from the World by opiate overdose.
Many who have not died from painkiller overdose have still ruined their life from addiction to painkillers , and harmed other people as well. I love morphine and Fentanyl, but when I look at the damage that opiates have done, it seems they have not done our world more good than harm.
Some say that's Mother Teresa just wanted to convert people to Catholicism ,but I never heard her say that other religions are going to hell or that Hindus or Muslims in her missions had to convert.( I doubt many of them did)... neither did I ever hear her say that non Catholics or non Christians would go to hell.
Others say she used the poor to get rich and famous. I don't think so because she went into one of the worst ghettos in the world without any bodyguards or means to supports herself financially, and there was nothing in it for her but the risk of death, disease, starvation, suffering, and no guarantee that she would get famous at all.
When there was war in Lebanon and Christians were getting killed just for being Christian, people in the church were telling her not to go into Lebanon during the conflict, and that her life was at risk. She went there anyways and there was nothing in it for her but a lot of Sorrow, a lot of Orphan children, a lot of injured people, and the risk of her own life.
So, it is clear to me that Mother Teresa did enormous amount of good for our world, and if everybody followed her example , there would be no violence. The sick, the hungry, the poor, the lonely, the dying , and the homeless would be cared for.
What do you think?
The summary below is from an official press release by the Université de Montréal concerning a paper by Serge Larivée and Genevieve Chenard of University of Montreal's Department of Psychoeducation and Carole Sénéchal of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Education. The paper will be published in the March issue of the journal Studies in
Religion/Sciences religieuses and is an analysis of the published writings about Mother Teresa. The researchers conclude that her hallowed image does not stand up to analysis of the facts, it was constructed, and her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign.
"While looking for documentation on the phenomenon of altruism for a seminar on ethics, one of us stumbled upon the life and work of one of Catholic Church's most celebrated woman and now part of our collective imagination - Mother Teresa - whose real name was Agnes Gonxha," says Professor Larivée, who led the research. "The description was so ecstatic that it piqued our curiosity and pushed us to research further."
As a result, the three researchers collected 502 documents on the life and work of Mother Teresa. After eliminating 195 duplicates, they consulted 287 documents to conduct their analysis, representing 96% of the literature on the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity (OMC). Facts debunk the myth of Mother Teresa
In their article, Serge Larivée and his colleagues also cite a number of problems not take into account by the Vatican in Mother Teresa's beatification process, such as "her rather dubious way of caring for the sick, her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce."The release levels three types of accusations against mother Teresa and her supporters (quotes are direct from the press release):
1. The woman was in love with suffering and simply didn't take care of her charges, many of whom fruitlessly sought medical care."At the time of her death, Mother Teresa had opened 517 missions welcoming the poor and sick in more than 100 countries. The missions have been described as "homes for the dying" by doctors visiting several of these establishments in Calcutta. Two-thirds of the people coming to these missions hoped to a find a doctor to treat them, while the other third lay dying without receiving appropriate care. The doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions, as well as a shortage of actual care, inadequate food, and no painkillers. The problem is not a lack of money - the Foundation created by Mother Teresa has raised hundreds of millions of dollars - but rather a particular conception of suffering and death: "There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ's Passion. The world gains much from their suffering," was her reply to criticism, cites the journalist Christopher Hitchens. Nevertheless, when Mother Teresa required palliative care, she received it in a modern American hospital."
2. She was tightfisted about helping others, sequestered money donated for her work, and took money from dictators."Mother Teresa was generous with her prayers but rather miserly with her foundation's millions when it came to humanity's suffering. During numerous floods in India or following the explosion of a pesticide plant in Bhopal, she offered numerous prayers and medallions of the Virgin Mary but no direct or monetary aid. On the other hand, she had no qualms about accepting the Legion of Honour and a grant from the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti. Millions of dollars were transferred to the MCO's various bank accounts, but most of the accounts were kept secret, Larivée says. 'Given the parsimonious management of Mother Theresa's works, one may ask where the millions of dollars for the poorest of the poor have gone?'"
3. She was deliberately promoted by BBC journalist Malcolm Muggeridge (a fellow anti-abortionist), and her beatification was based on phony miracles.." . .In 1969, [Muggeridge] made a eulogistic film of the missionary, promoting her by attributing to her the "first photographic miracle," when it should have been attributed to the new film stock being marketed by Kodak. Afterwards, Mother Teresa traveled throughout the world and received numerous awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance speech, on the subject of Bosnian women who were raped by Serbs and now sought abortion, she said: 'I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing - direct murder by the mother herself.'
Following her death, the Vatican decided to waive the usual five-year waiting period to open the beatification process. The miracle attributed to Mother Theresa was the healing of a woman, Monica Besra, who had been suffering from intense abdominal pain. The woman testified that she was cured after a medallion blessed by Mother Theresa was placed on her abdomen. Her doctors thought otherwise: the ovarian cyst and the tuberculosis from which she suffered were healed by the drugs they had given her. The Vatican, nevertheless, concluded that it was a miracle. Mother Teresa's popularity was such that she had become untouchable for the population, which had already declared her a saint. "What could be better than beatification followed by canonization of this model to revitalize the Church and inspire the faithful especially at a time when churches are empty and the Roman authority is in decline?" Larivée and his colleagues ask."All of these echo, substantiate, and expand the criticisms leveled by Hitchens.
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I agree, Teresa was none other than Brahman, but under great ignorance, illusion. Now she is one with Brahman. "Brahmaleen", as the Hindus say.
