Mother Teresa was no saint

[BNRT]

If it needs explaining to you that someone who tortured sick and dying people for her invisible friend's enjoyment is probably not the best example of "Christian Ideals", then I can't help you.

Are atheists and agnostics incapable of similar lunacy?

No. Absolutely, unqualified, no if-and-or-buts no.

 

[Pup]

How ls card-stacking an impartial attempt to find truth?

It's not. That's my point. Trials are an adversarial process where both sides try to stack the cards in their favor by eliminating unsympathetic jurors.

If trials were like a discussion forum, the defense could focus on offering actual evidence to counter the claims in the OP, rather than complaining about the jurors.

 

[Craig4]

If she were really on trial, Atheists would be deemed unsuitable jurors because of the well-known notorious propensity which atheists have for downgrading all that’s religious including persons of prominent religious reputations who might give deism more credence. Are you an atheist?

I have no religion. If it is easier for you to call me an atheist feel free. I'm not judging her on her beliefs. I'm condemning things she did which caused suffering of others. Do you see some morality in her cruelty?

 

[I Am The Scum]

She was an atheist?

You are badly mixing up your terms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism

 

[Foster Zygote]

What leads you to believe that principles of fairness cease to apply away from a courtroom?

You have some evidence that exonerates her? Let's see it.

 

[Foster Zygote]

She was an atheist?

Deism

 

[The Norseman]

If she were really on trial, Atheists would be deemed unsuitable jurors because of the well-known notorious propensity which atheists have for downgrading all that’s religious including persons of prominent religious reputations who might give deism more credence. Are you an atheist?

Are you a theist? Catholic perhaps?

[What leads you to believe that principles of fairness cease to apply away from a courtroom?

What leads you to believe that principles of fairness are of concern in a courtroom?

 

[Brainiac2]

You are badly mixing up your terms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism

Think so?

 

[Brian-M]

I have no religion. If it is easier for you to call me an atheist feel free.

Whether or not you have religion doesn't really give any indication on whether or not you're an atheist. There are atheists who have religion (eg, Scientology) and theists who have no religion (eg, Deists).

 

[Brainiac2]

Are you a theist? Catholic perhaps?



What leads you to believe that principles of fairness are of concern in a courtroom?

Excuse me but that's the most stupid question any atheist has asked me so far.

 

[Brainiac2]

Whether or not you have religion doesn't really give any indication on whether or not you're an atheist. There are atheists who have religion (eg, Scientology) and theists who have no religion (eg, Deists).

Good point!

 

[Foster Zygote]

Think so?

We know so. Mother Teresa was, without any doubt, not a deist.

 

[Monketi Ghost]

As a Catholic kid, I sent her my allowance money many times, in for-the-Mother drives at school.
This thread is actually the first I'm hearing about this stuff regarding her.

 

[Madalch]

So was Pol Pot.

Well, do let us know when anyone attempts to claim that Pol Pot was a saintly human being, and we'll argue with them, too.

 

[fuelair]

Are you a theist? Catholic perhaps?



What leads you to believe that principles of fairness are of concern in a courtroom?

Clearly a lack of involvement with one in any capacity.

 

[fuelair]

Excuse me but that's the most stupid question any atheist has asked me so far.

If the latter, you are quite wrong. Even in the best of all available courts fairness is easily trumped by law, the worldview of the judge and the ability of the lawyers to make truth die swinging about slowly in the wind that is their breaths.

 

[Craig B]

As a Catholic kid, I sent her my allowance money many times, in for-the-Mother drives at school.
This thread is actually the first I'm hearing about this stuff regarding her.

It is also worth asking what has happened to this money. Has the Church simply pocketed it?

 

[Dr. Keith]

As a Catholic kid, I sent her my allowance money many times, in for-the-Mother drives at school.
This thread is actually the first I'm hearing about this stuff regarding her.

I think this is pretty much the point.

Gather 100 Catholics and give them a week to study the factual life of Mother Teresa, including references pro and con, and I think most would come away shocked.

The only good she did was to have her private diary published so that we could study how a woman of such faltering faith allowed that faith to misguide her so horribly.

 

[Craig4]

Whether or not you have religion doesn't really give any indication on whether or not you're an atheist. There are atheists who have religion (eg, Scientology) and theists who have no religion (eg, Deists).

Then to clarify, I don't have any religious beliefs.

 

[squealpiggy]

Brian seems to be missing from that list.

Gordon's ALIVE!

Are atheists and agnostics incapable of similar lunacy?


It is true that it's possible that religion can produce evil, and generally when we look closer at the detail it produces evil because the individual people are actually living in a rejection of the tenets of Christianity and a rejection of the God that they are supposed to be following. So it can produce it, but the historical fact is that outright rejection of God and institutionalizing of atheism actually does produce evil on incredible levels. We're talking about tens of millions of people as a result of the rejection of God.[1]

http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_Mass_Murder

You realise that this argument is a non-starter don't you? Especially when you use conservapedia. Good grief.