Motha' Theresa

[Ben Davis]

Apparently you don't even have to believe in fucking god to be a saint anymore.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/letters-reve...as-secret/



It seems it is enough if all you do is keep the donations rolling in.

I read that they are actually trying to officially spin that as a virtue, how her struggle with maintaining faith is a sign of heroism that makes her even more deserving of sainthood. You couldn't make it up.

It was her admission of lost faith that was her only redeeming feature, the only sign of humanity in an otherwise sociopathic persona. It also puts a slightly different spin on her last years: that she wanted to stop and explore her new faithlessness but was prevented from doing so by a cynical and manipulative Vatican body who were so invested in the profitability of the myth of Mother Teresa that they would rather watch her suffer, intellectually, and her victims suffer, physically, to the point of their deaths than let an old lady come to terms with herself. Some might call that a strange form of justice given her behaviour for the overwhelming majority of her life, that she was manipulated in a similar way to her victims, but I think even Hitch said that contemplation of such treatment by the church made him feel pangs of sympathy.