(July 17, 2014 at 12:53 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You aren't the only person wondering what she did with her stash (beyond the private jetsetting and mission building).
What she did:
-Opened 500 some odd franchise locations for the Catholic Church.
-Offered prayers and holy trinkets to refuges of natural disasters.
-Collected hundreds of millions of dollars from donors.
-Legitimized and praised dictators while accepting their awards and honors (and money, of course - I doubt she would have made the trip for medallions, she had plenty of trinkets, see above.)
What she didn't do:
-Provide adequate food or medical care for anyone at those franchise locations
-Offer any financial assistance to said survivors
-Disclose the exact whereabouts or use of those hundreds of millions
-Take the opportunity, while pumping said fists, to condemn the slaughter of around 30,000 haitians, and continued repression of the remainder (and lets not get into her dealings in Kosovo..).
There's no point in whitewashing the woman's achievements (or lack thereof).
That's really great revisionism. I don't see any evil in Mother Teresa's efforts to help those who had no help from anybody. Mother Teresa's aim was to provide for the immediate needs of the people on the street and to spread christianity. She was right that India needed christianity. One huge reason that the street people were not getting any help was the hindu religion. It was believed that they were paying for bad karma and thus shouldn't be helped. They would never get ahead under the hindu caste system and were just left there to suffer and die. She did believe that poverty was spiritually helpful, but dedicated her life to taking care of suffering people. Why doesn't some person go over there and build modern, clean hospitals and nice places for these people? Maybe they can create job opportunities for them so they can rise out of poverty. While we're waiting for that to happen, Mother Teresa's organization is continuing to feed, clothe and treat them.
