(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.
58–William==would you fight FOR or AGAINST sound family planning for the poor around the world–to include teaching concepts of choice backedup with availability of birth control, condoms, abortion, generously funded state supported orphanages and adoption services??
Or, like MT would you reject some of this in favor of that which does not address the problem of overpopulation?
60: “Slaps forehead.”
#58 – william Brown
Missionaries don’t do deeds without a motive. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu went to India to convert people to Christianity, and as such an asshole yourself, you ought to have been well indoctrinated to understand that this was the main mission. It’s good that you smiled at them as they suffered, just so that you and Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu could bring them closer to Jesus.
#61 – bobbo
Very good points!
>extremely poor, uneducated, and living in a third world country.
Yeah, can’t have too many brown, black, and yellow babies now can we?
#65 let me translate:
extremely poor = unable to take care of a child
uneducated = unable to make the right decisions about contraception
in a third world country = no access to social programs, medical facilities, counselling services, etc
Sum total: these are still the worst people in the world to limit access to birth control services. It has nothing to do with race. You however, have made it about race. Congratulations.
58 A sign in the mission directed us to only take in a dying person if no other agency would.
Why?
Why not take in anyone who was dying?
If her mission had attracted your attention – I assume you didn’t live in Calcutta before working in her mission – and the attention of others, worldwide? if donations were pouring-in from all over the globe… why turn anyone away?
Why not use the donations for the express purpose of which they were intended… expanding her mission to the maximum extent possible?
Why is a candidate for Sainthood given a pass on the kinds of financial review that any other charity would be subjected to?
I doubt she was handling the finances personally, so why are all the behind-the-scenes money-handlers shielded from review by her aura of beatitude?
Another hero besmirched after their death. sad,sad,sad.
and Skippy, the reasons you list are exactly why they don’t have “birth control services” in the first place. They are poor and uneducated.
So why not teach them something that requires little money and no expertise to preform? Like abstinence for instance. Or does that make too much sense?
All those who said negative rthings about Mother Teresa are worthless liberls jerks and
worhless nerds to humanity
#68:
“the reasons you list are exactly why they don’t have “birth control services” in the first place. They are poor and uneducated.”
Yes, that’s why they need birth control services, because they are poor and uneducated. MT could have provided these services, but she didn’t.
“So why not teach them something that requires little money and no expertise to preform? Like abstinence for instance. Or does that make too much sense?”
Numerous studies have shown that abstinence programs simply don’t work. For example:
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/abstinencereport.asp
#68 – Jim W. – Another hero besmirched after their death. sad,sad,sad.
So when the image of a person turns out to be flawed after the person is gone, you shouldn’t be able to criticize that person?! Well, I’ll be damned… The people of the former Soviet states should look back at Stalin and remember him for all the good deeds he did, not for the millions he had killed etc. And every German family should have a portrait of Hitler in their living room just to honor his great deeds. After all, he killed off unemployment, rearmed and brought pride to the German people, right?!
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was a bitch who loved to see people suffer in order to bring them to closer to her invisible friend’s dead “son”.
#69 – MIT
GFY
#68:
“the reasons you list are exactly why they don’t have “birth control services” in the first place. They are poor and uneducated.”
Yes, that’s why they need birth control services, because they are poor and uneducated. MT could have provided these services, but she didn’t.
“So why not teach them something that requires little money and no expertise to preform? Like abstinence for instance. Or does that make too much sense?”
Numerous studies have shown that abstinence programs simply don’t work. While’s there’s nothing wrong with advocating abstinence, abstinence ONLY programs ignore basic human behaviour, deny sexual education and discussion, and don’t suggest alternatives which are more effective (like birth control).
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/abstinencereport.asp
#69 – MIT: You put that very well.
Sorry to be rude, but fuck ‘numerous studies.’ They aren’t necessary. Anyone with a high school education and a pair of functioning gonads of his/her own should know that people will have sex despite anything you tell them. The hormonal and mental instinct to procreate under any and all circumstances can not, never has and never will be supressed by words, by starvation, by sickness, or anything else.
Telling people to not fuck is exactly as effective as telling them to not breathe. It does not work and the existence of the human race is the proof of it.
Try to not be an idiot there, Jim W.
#58
> What would you call the words and actions of Pen and Teller?
Entertaining. Enlightening. Anyone that brings igorance and hypocracy out into the open for all to see and do it in an entertaining way is helping all of us. Arguments like yours do not address the millions of dollars in donations that somehow vaporized. It does not explain why with all the money she received that the conditions were not better.
#68
> Like abstinence for instance. Or does that make too much sense?
First, *teaching* abstinence is not free. Second, biology and overwhelming evidence shows that abstinence education is not effective in reducing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Therefore, NO it does not make sense to continue using an approach proven to be ineffective.
Oh, and one more thing, strangely abstinence is ineffective in cases of rape. 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.
#11 Not for evangelicals, to them Catholics are not christians.
#21
Thanks for the correction
#72, jag,
In the interests of my own self improvement, is it GFY or GFYS?
Great sentiment.
#79 – Mr. Fusion
Good For You… but GFYS wouldn’t have been bad reply either.