Oh yes she did. Thank Bob the evil old hag is dead - she must rank as the worst murderess in history. Thousands of lepers and tuberculitic victims died at her hands.
She could have simply taken them to her local hospital to obtain the antibiotics which treat TB, but no, the hideous hag gave them a bed to die in. Oh, and she prayed for them. Bet that helped as they coughed their lungs out!
And now the Pope wants to give bibles before food - two identically insane positions from the same insane church. The church is fast-tracking her beatification, I would have hung the bitch.
With a handle like "The Atheist", I assume that I know where you're coming from, but you must realize that this is a complete misunderstanding of the situation. She was no woo practitioner taking patients away from conventional medicine; her missionary society opened hospices and leper houses for people
who could not go to a hospital, being members of the Untouchable caste. Hospitals simply wouldn't allow them in.
Nobody died
because of her. Nobody went to her to be prayed for instead of going to a doctor--you are misunderstanding this. As Untouchables they were completely invisible to the medical establishment of India. Medical care simply was not available to them, period.
No, she could
not have "taken them to the hospital to obtain antibiotics", because the hospital would have literally, physically, prevented her from bringing them inside. And they certainly would not have dispensed antibiotics at the door to Untouchables in the street, like a McDonalds drive-thru.
Which was kind of the whole point of her entire ministry: she ministered to people who, literally, had nowhere else to go. Without her, they simply died in the streets like animals. She at least gave them compassion and dignity.
Perhaps you might spare your anti-Christian vitriol for those who truly deserve it.
How 'bout the Vatican, with their wealth and their coverups?
