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In reply to the discussion: "You don't have to be Mother Theresa to avoid being an asshole." [View all]Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)12. Well, Christopher Hitchens, for one.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html
This returns us to the medieval corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching hellfire and continence to the poor. MT was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan. Where did that money, and all the other donations, go? The primitive hospice in Calcutta was as run down when she died as it always had beenshe preferred California clinics when she got sick herselfand her order always refused to publish any audit. But we have her own claim that she opened 500 convents in more than a hundred countries, all bearing the name of her own order. Excuse me, but this is modesty and humility?
This returns us to the medieval corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching hellfire and continence to the poor. MT was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan. Where did that money, and all the other donations, go? The primitive hospice in Calcutta was as run down when she died as it always had beenshe preferred California clinics when she got sick herselfand her order always refused to publish any audit. But we have her own claim that she opened 500 convents in more than a hundred countries, all bearing the name of her own order. Excuse me, but this is modesty and humility?
There are more people who were distinctly unimpressed with Mother Theresa, if you have any interest in googling. I didn't particularly care for Hitchens, but I think his assessment of her in this instance was spot on.
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"You don't have to be Mother Theresa to avoid being an asshole." [View all]
babylonsister
Aug 2013
OP
Their lack of compassion may be a way of masking their fear that it will happen to them one day.
freshwest
Aug 2013
#1
Even if they're nice in public, they prove their assholery in the voting booth in private.
freshwest
Aug 2013
#4
Hitch was a strange bird in that his track record was all over the map. But no one would argue he
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2013
#93
"sorrow, suffering is but a kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him..."
progressoid
Aug 2013
#77
You seem determined to remain in the dark about the actual philosophy of
Sheldon Cooper
Aug 2013
#33
"I'm tired of conservatives telling everybody to get a job and stop looking for help".....or the old
a kennedy
Aug 2013
#22
It's not the MFT bashing making You sick--it's believing in a baseless myth/fantasy that's kills U.
hue
Aug 2013
#38
Teresa harmed the poor, sick & dying. She & the Vatican USED them to greatly enrich themselves.
hue
Aug 2013
#49
All you people bashing Mother Theresa have NOTHING to say about conservatives and
babylonsister
Aug 2013
#70