Not to mention the hypocrisy and stark fundamentalism she exhibited while she was alive. To paraphrase a Hitchens quote, she was not a friend of the poor, she was a friend of poverty. She thought poverty and suffering were a gift from God. She didn't spend the millions of dollars she drew in on medical equipment or building hospitals, she used it to build convents with her name on them. Her flagship "House for the Dying" was exactly that. It wasn't a hospice or a hospital, it was a cramped, dirty building where people went to die under the rules of the Catholic church. She spent her whole career fighting against women's rights to regulate their own reproductive system (something which Calcutta was in dire need of and would've been supremely helpful). She spoke against allowing Irish women to divorce their husbands even if the husbands beat them, yet also praised Princess Diana for getting a divorce. She witheld decent medical treatment from the people that came to her in their suffering, while flying around in private jets and receiving the most modern medical care when she needed it. In her Nobel acceptance speech, she said that cotnraception was morally equivalent to abortion, and that abortion was morally equivalent to murder, and that abortion was the single most dangerous threat to world peace. The list goes on.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
