Mother Theresa - Servant of the Devil?

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...cious.html

From a critical site. That is 517 missions in more than 100 countries. How many missions have you opened? How many has Christopher Hitchens, a Marxist, who popularized atheist demonization of Mother Theresa.

Why would he open missions? Why would I? That's a religious organization and it would be extremely odd for atheists to open one.

This is what I think happened. Mother Theresa was a flawed individual. Figures like Christopher Hitchens, who are themselves very spiritually immature and like to play on peoples sense of breaking away from tradition, of hearing a sort of rebellious, iconoclastic message which sells books and who do not want to have anyone put a moral authority over them set out to discredit Mother Theresa in any way possible.

What happens after this is that atheists on the internet, who sometimes are immature, emotionally and also spiritually, picked up on the anti-Mother Theresa wave. They did not feel any special responsibility to get a clear perception of what Mother Theresa did, they just gratified their youthful, rebellious lusts by indulging in anti-Theresa propaganda:

"Are you that fucking stupid? Mother T built a profitable reputation; too bad her 'patients' weren't recipients of the generosity. "
"Mother theresa - servant of the devil "

I would encourage anyone reading this thread who wants to grow in understanding the world and truth that they should learn to control their appetites for controversy and hunger for the sort of truth that is not easily palatable to rebellious tastes.

Whatever you think of Mother Theresa, maybe she was a mediocre humanitarian, the spirit in which you judge her should reflect a hunger for understanding, not a love of controversy.

Really? Is that what you think happened? Here's what I think happened.

Mother Teresa was a deeply flawed individual with twisted idea of what being charitable meant and her religion fostered that view. Others, especially the Catholic Church, saw in her a way to salvage their declining reputation and gave her more recognition and publicity than she actually deserved. Some others, who are rebelling by actually caring for the truth decided not to swallow the media propaganda and found out if there was any proof in the pudding.

Now that it is turning out there is little of that, her defenders are resorting to tactics like "well, you haven't done any charity either" (a classic tu qoque) or that she should be judged on her spirit not any actual work. Well, guess what, spirit does not put feed the hungry. I'd encourage people reading this thread to actually care about the truth, even if it is not palatable.