Academics prove Hitch right about Mother Teresa

[Roger Ramjets]

Positive effect of the Mother Teresa myth

Despite Mother Teresa's dubious way of caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, Serge Larivée and his colleagues point out the positive effect of the Mother Teresa myth: "If the extraordinary image of Mother Teresa conveyed in the collective imagination has encouraged humanitarian initiatives that are genuinely engaged with those crushed by poverty, we can only rejoice. It is likely that she has inspired many humanitarian workers whose actions have truly relieved the suffering of the destitute and addressed the causes of poverty and isolation without being extolled by the media.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Cut her some slack.

She converted to Atheism on her deathbed.

Well that changes everything! But was she ever a believer?

Did Mother Teresa believe in God?

In secret letters that Mother Teresa insisted should be burned after her death, but which the Vatican ordered should be preserved for the world, she also describes the "darkness, loneliness and torture" she constantly felt, which made her doubt the existence of Heaven and God...

"I spoke as if my heart was in love with God - tender, personal love," she wrote to another adviser, wondering if she was involved in "verbal deception" of the millions who followed her every act as proof of God's existence.

"If you were there, you'd have said: 'What hypocrisy.'"

I think she was always an atheist, and the atrocities she committed were a result of trying to deny it.

Yet, far from proving that God does not exist, Father Kolodiejchuk told the Mail he believes Mother Teresa's struggles with faith, pain, abandonment and desolation prove she was walking in tandem with Jesus through her life.

Er, no Father Kolodiejchuk. It just proves who the sick bastards were who thought up and promoted this doublespeak. Your kind conned her into believing that pain, abandonment and desolation could lead to salvation, when in fact it just leads to being pained, abandoned and desolate. If that is the reason Mother Teresa celebrated the suffering of her patients then you are the villain, and she was another victim of your toxic dogma.

 

[Delvo]

It's beyond belief that the Catholic Church allows her sainthood to remain in place.

Saints are a crowd that she fits in with perfectly.

 

[Orphia Nay]

...this is either a pretty funny joke or a surprising historical ignorance. Catholicism has never skimped on having female saints. However the religion may have treated real women, they've always been nice to the fictional supernatural ones.

I admit it was a quick Google, but it seems there are still many more male saints than female.

Saints are a crowd that she fits in with perfectly.

 

[arthwollipot]

I admit it was a quick Google, but it seems there are still many more male saints than female.

Here's the full list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_saints

 

[Darat]

And for those who still had any doubts about the worst and cruellest serial killer in modern history, some former members of the disgusting scum known ironically as Missionaries of Charity have helped in the making of a new documentary on the cult and its practices.

Includes such gems as tying children to beds and: "reuse of hypodermic needles and tolerating primitive facilities that required patients to defecate in front of one another."

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and...es-was-mother-teresa-a-cult-leader-1.4573449?

A saint indeed.

I’ve been a critic of her and her “work” for a long time.

And lets face it all she was doing was following the RCC creed, poverty is a blessing (for other people), illness is a blessing (for other people) and so on. In a way one could say she was simply deluded and led astray by the RCC however and it is a bloody big however since her death we have learnt that for many years she didn’t even believe in her damned god!

So she caused all those people to suffer entirely for her own ends without even the veneer of faith.

 

[catsmate]

It's beyond belief that the Catholic Church allows her sainthood to remain in place.

The US Republican part will fellate Trump. It's similar.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I admit it was a quick Google, but it seems there are still many more male saints than female.

I think there's a lot of room between "token" and "not fifty percent".

 

[EvilBiker]

I admit it was a quick Google, but it seems there are still many more male saints than female.

Probably because men were/are generally dumber than women and are more likely to flip the bird to the relevant authorities when they appeared in force. A version of “you’re not the boss of me!”, if you will.

 

[theprestige]

Lots of detail about their conclusions and how they confirm what we already assumed to be true. Not much about their methodology or the quality of their data.

 

[The Atheist]

So she caused all those people to suffer entirely for her own ends without even the veneer of faith.

She did also raise millions of dollars, so at least the families of the dead can console themselves with that.

 

[arthwollipot]

The US Republican part will fellate Trump. It's similar.

Mmm... not so sure. I mean there are certainly similarities, but Mother Teresa is seen around the world as a symbol of compassion and charity, even by non-Catholics. The King In Orange (#HeWhoShallBeNamed) doesn't have that.

 

[Thor 2]

I’ve been a critic of her and her “work” for a long time.

And lets face it all she was doing was following the RCC creed, poverty is a blessing (for other people), illness is a blessing (for other people) and so on. In a way one could say she was simply deluded and led astray by the RCC however and it is a bloody big however since her death we have learnt that for many years she didn’t even believe in her damned god!

So she caused all those people to suffer entirely for her own ends without even the veneer of faith.

And what I can't get is her getting that Nobel prize.