(CBS) In life, Mother Teresa was an icon — for believers — of God’s work on Earth. Her ministry to the poor of Calcutta was a world-renowned symbol of religious compassion.
But now, it has emerged that Mother Teresa was so doubtful of her own faith that she feared being a hypocrite
In a new book that compiles letters she wrote to friends, superiors and confessors, her doubts are obvious.
According to her letters, Mother Teresa died with her doubts. She had even stopped praying, she once said.
Skippy, your study only studied 4 out of 700 programs. that strikes me as kind of limited research to be making such a definitive statement. Try this story about the very same study.
Heritage Foundation Expert Responds to Flawed Abstinence Study
True Tomas, teaching absinece isn’t free, but I would wager its cheeper than preforming abortions.
As to sex being as necessary as breathing !?! I don’t know where to begin with that one.
>True Tomas , teaching
> absinece isn’t free, but I would
> wager its cheeper than preforming abortions.
Yet abortion is far cheaper than rearing an unwanted child.
Jim W, see the following:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7613/248
http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=27732&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm
http://www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=11&abstractId=2198111
There is very little credible evidence to support the idea that abstinence only programs work. There is LOTS of evidence which supports that sex education DOES work. Your link from the Heritage Foundation, which is highly conservative, is going to find flaws in the study, of course.
#81, see the following:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7613/248
http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=27732&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm
http://www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=11&abstractId=2198111
There is very little credible evidence to support the idea that abstinence only programs work. There is LOTS of evidence which supports that sex education DOES work. Your link from the Heritage Foundation, which is highly conservative, is going to find flaws in the study, of course.
#81, see the following:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7613/248
http://www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=11&abstractId=2198111
(there is another link which the system doesn’t want to show for some reason)
There is very little credible evidence to support the idea that abstinence only programs work. There is LOTS of evidence which supports that sex education DOES work. Your link from the Heritage Foundation, which is highly conservative, is going to find flaws in the study, of course.
#81, I just re-read the report you linked to, and I see the following:
“Fortunately, there are 15 other studies (most appearing in peer-reviewed journals) showing that abstinence programs are effective in reducing youth sexual activity. ”
OK, so where are these studies? Difficult to verify his claims if he doesn’t provide sources.
#55 Jägermeister “That answer might indicate that they’re agnostic, not atheist.”
#57 “Tihz–the contest between religion and reason is not the same as the preference between coke and pepsi or mac and PC==until the fan boys of one side put the other to death that is.”
Judging from some of the rants from the Apple Mac side its only a matter of time. LOL
#66 Gee, sounds like some places in rural south in the US. LOL
#73 “Yes, that’s why they need birth control services, because they are poor and uneducated” – “Yes, that’s why they need birth control services, because they are poor and uneducated”
“So why not teach them something that requires little money and no expertise to preform? ”
Now you are touching on one of the reasons for China’s one Child policy. China still has 70-80% of its population in rural areas and development is much slower there than in the cities.
“Or does that make too much sense?”
#77 “It may come as a shock to many but telling the rapist not to continue nor encouraging the rapist to wear a condom are effective in preventing pregnancies in cases of rape.”
Sorry but I find that hard to believe…
Victim: “Pardon me, I don’t want to be rude but before you rape and possibly kill me would you mind wearing this condom – remember its for your protection as well as mine.”
Rapist: “Please lady, tank you all da same, your too kind, but I gots one already – see its already on…Ok were was we? Oh yeah you were screaming….”
Cheers
#55 Jägermeister “That answer might indicate that they’re agnostic, not atheist.”
Where was my comment? it vanished… : /
Yes I agree I should have used the term agnostic – thanks for that!
Editors – On hot topics comments quickly morph into a forum…so how about a DU forum for hot topics….or is there one already but I just haven’t found it yet.
Cheers
It would make more sense to simply age the blog entries by # of comments, that way the active ones would stay up top and the completely dead (or radioactive) ones would rapidly slip away…
#87 LtG Yes – that would help to keep a good post going by keeping its position on the main page ’cause even good posts die once they move.
What I was getting at, when you want to reply to someone’s comment on a hot post you clip and paste what they said and then comment on that – and then someone comments on that…so now its a forum verses just making comments about the post.
The regular comments stay put and when a hot post comes along and when the comments grow to say + 50 comments it goes to a forum with a link on the main page – “Active forums”
What do you think?
Unless DU has one already – but I never noticed it…
Cheers
91 responses! Do I smell a repost???
>>and have tits as big as baseballs.
Angel, you horny bastard. You should be watching those plastic surgery shows on TV instead of that bukakke stuff. Nowadays, “tits as big as baseballs” are NOTHING. With modern advances in cosmetic surgery, one can easily have tits as big as softballs, as big as canteloupes, as big as watermelons. Heck, you can get ‘em as big as a zepplin.
I’m really late to this party and haven’t read the comments. I have to say though that I think it’s really cool that we may get an atheist saint. This could be a true first!!
#89, #90,
Actually John, please take a look at the format of the Mother Jones blog. They have a section for the most recent blog threads and a separate section for threads with the most recent posts. This way, people can choose to check both the new blog topics and the newly commented upon blog topics. It’s quite nice.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/
- Scott
May God Bless Mother Teresa. And all the little babies too, the born and unborn little babies. Even the genetically modified little babies too. And may many people send money to pay for the care of all these little babies.
from Skippy
“There is LOTS of evidence which supports that sex education DOES work”
i agree, It teaches them HOW to have sex, but I don’t think it teaches them the responsibilities that go along with sex, emotional as well as biological.
BTW: you posted 2 liberal links (maybe 3) to my 1 conservative, so I will give back this 1 and call it even. and save the rest of the arguing for another thread.
Media Miss Abstinence Study Flaws
#96, Jim W.
The link you posted DOES NOT say one way or the other if Sex Education is a factor in STDs.
Because the two groups of teens are not necessarily comparable, the study’s results have no real meaning, either supporting the effectiveness of abstinence pledging or disputing its usefulness.
While common sense would suggest it is, your cite only criticizes the methodology of the study. Because the article does not cite or link the study, it is difficult to challenge HER criticisms. In other words, an effen waste of time.
Faith is not a gift from God. Reason is our gift from God and it’s unfortunate that we live in a society that no longer values God’s gift of reason. We are becoming an ignorant society, similar to England 400 years ago. To have faith in a revealed religion is to deny one’s gift of reason. Faith is a curse that has been mankind’s yoke and burden for thousands of years.
Faith in Jesus=believing in Hell
Hell is the impossiblity of reason and to see by faith one must close the eye of reason!