Reflections on Mother Teresa

[Reforged]

I'm not sure reflecting on Mother Teresa is even possible.

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Is there any mirror tough enough to withstand that kind of punishment?

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[Thumpalumpacus]

I'm not sure reflecting on Mother Teresa is even possible.

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Is there any mirror tough enough to withstand that kind of punishment?

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Pretty sure vampires don't cast reflections anyway.

[TrueChristian]

Hmm.. turns out I was right about faithful Catholics loving Teresa more than normal.

I discussed her with my father the other day. He is a faithful, "true" Catholic, but not a fanatic. While he belives in most thing the Church teaches, he is fine with non-Christians, and even understands atheists/agnostics, though he believes they are sad and lonesome without religion.

I brought up Teresa with him and my understanding of her "loving to keep people poor." He was not happy with me. It was almost as if I questioned the virtue of his grandmother.

He said that maybe MT should have tried to help the poor more than she did but "saints aren't social workers etc. etc.!

[Crossless2.0]

Hmm.. turns out I was right about faithful Catholics loving Teresa more than normal.

I discussed her with my father the other day. He is a faithful, "true" Catholic, but not a fanatic. While he belives in most thing the Church teaches, he is fine with non-Christians, and even understands atheists/agnostics, though he believes they are sad and lonesome without religion.

I brought up Teresa with him and my understanding of her "loving to keep people poor." He was not happy with me. It was almost as if I questioned the virtue of his grandmother.

He said that maybe MT should have tried to help the poor more than she did but "saints aren't social workers etc. etc.!

Most of the time they aren't even "saints".

That gargoyle Teresa certainly wasn't.

[Alex K]

Best PR stunt ever.

[Ravenshire]

To (mis)quote Hitch, Mother Theresa was not a friend of the poor or those who suffered. She was a friend of poverty and suffering.

[Cyberman]

[Pat Mustard]

I'd go that far. She used the suffering of others to make herself feel special. "Cunt" is a compliment by comparison.

To make herself feel special? Not quite. To make the poor and their benefactors feel special.... yes.

She sincerely believed that the poor were "blessed" to experience their grinding poverty. In their desperation they could turn to Jesus and love him, in a way that the more affluent cannot (according to her.)

The poor's wretched state also made the rich draw close to Jesus, by seeing suffering people, they could feel compassion and give money to them, thus improving their spirtual state .

Many accuse the Catholic Church of inadvertently causing poverty by being absolutely deadset against a woman's reproductive autonomy. I think it may have been intentional on Teresa's part. She probably thought a couple who got by on $30 a month should feel "blessed" to not use contraception and enjoy having 10-12 kids. In their poverty, stress and desperation (Exacerbated by the kids) they could focus on Jesus instead of their own lives more.

Now that we know the nature of Mother T, this painting seems much more creepy: http://createsupernaturally.com/wp-conte...a-full.jpg

I could see why people would be taken in though. Most people just saw her (and still see her) as some cute old lady who wanted to help the poor. What would there be to criticize (or so most people thought.)

I read an article by Hitchens on this, and he basically said that no one apart from atheists have any incentive to expose her. The religious think she brings good press to religion, and few people want to admit they'd been fooled into thinking this was a woman who wanted to improve the material well-being of those in need.

I still believe the Faithful Catholics will fight tooth and nail to defend her against any criticism ( they already do, on the various Catholic forums I post on) .

I've said it before, but she is really the best they have. A recent "saint" who opposed contraception,abortion, euthaniasia, homosexuality, sex before marriage, divorce (except for her bestie, Princess Di) and many other things. Better than that she is loved by people of many backgrounds and thought of as a kind, altrusitic person.

In ten years though, I feel the truth about her will be widley known. I doubt more than 5% of the U.S population is aware of her suffering kink the way we are..

If she truly believed the bullshit, she'd have suffered when ill alongside the poor of Calcutta, instead of jetting off to the US on donations for the best treatment.