Christianity's Valuable Contributions to Humanity: An Examination of Militant Atheism

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Wiki says this on St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta's Missionaries of Charity: "Missionaries care for those who include refugees, former prostitutes, the mentally ill, sick children, abandoned children, lepers, people with AIDS, the aged, and convalescent. They have schools that are run by volunteers to teach abandoned street children and run soup kitchen as well as other services according to the community needs. These services are provided, without charge, to people regardless of their religion or social status."

Mother Teresa believed that suffering brought one closer to God. Consequently, Western volunteers often came away reporting deplorable conditions. Trained medical professionals are nowhere to be found; medical supplies are expired, inadequate, or reused. Painkillers are frowned upon as Teresa believed pain was an integral part of the all-important suffering.

She raked in an estimated US$75 million per year in donations, but only about 7% of Missionaries of Charity's budget has gone to its programs. So she may have had this larger-than-life international image of a great healer, but within Calcutta, she was little more than a small-time missionary.

She believed their poverty was a crucial component to their spirituality. If you sought aid at one of her missions you may have gotten a clean bed and possibly an aspirin, but you certainly got a Catholic baptism.

Militant Atheists like Hitchens should first come to India and work silently to help orphaned children, the sick and other suffering souls and then, after years or decades of doing that, allegedly better than St. Mother Theresa if they could, then let them criticize her/MoCs, as he unjustly did

Hitchens interviewed her extensively and knew her well. He wrote what she'd made it clear to him, which is that in no uncertain terms that hers was a mission of conversion and baptism, and not of social work.