Mother Teresa is probably the person I admire more than any other human being. This revelation doesn't change my opinion in any way. I wish I could have met her.
Mother Teresa doubted God's existence during her last years
by Gregor 48 Replies latest jw friends
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choosing life
How could someone be around all the abject poverty and terrible suffering that she witnessed and not ask where God is? It all sounds pretty logical to me.
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Gregor
Which bit don't you get...
I think this is the question you should ask yourself, grumpy. You whined for a moderator to jump in over 12 hours ago and got no response. Why don't you get over it. Nobody was out of line, you're just an insecure believer.
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Insomniac
Pubsinger, don't feel like an outcast, dear. Apparently, I'm also "thin-skinned". The gentleman in question made some pretty offensive and ill-informed remarks about my religion some weeks ago, to which I rightly took umbrage. To my knowledge, nothing was done then, either.
Back on topic: I've heard this about Mother Teresa before. The lady was witness to some pretty horrific things during her service in India. I imagine they could have caused her to doubt God's existence, or to feel that God had turned His back on her work. Perhaps it is better to occasionally or continually hold our faith up for examination, and to explore our doubts, than to accept church doctrine unthinkingly. In other words, perhaps this actually made her a better Christian, ultimately. And it doesn't detract from her lifetime of good works.
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joannadandy
"Where is my faith?" she writes. "Even deep down … there is nothing but emptiness and darkness. ... If there be God — please forgive me."
There is something completely comforting about this statement coming from that small in stature, large in heart woman.
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joannadandy
I don't think doubting in itself is wrong or affects one's faith negatively. I mean, Prophets and Bible writers doubted too. They even wished to die and once the Watchtower commented that it's "normal" to feel empty, alone, etc because we're human and cited Jonah and others as examples. But yeah, now this news will make it to the WTS and the JW's will use that against religious people who belong to other religions.
Justahuman - but super nonetheless
I think you might like this book - it's at least worth checking out, in my opinion, is Doubt; a History by Jennifer Michael Hecht. I first heard of her on NPR - worth a listen if anyone is bored I think: http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/doubt/index.shtml
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Pubsinger
You whined for a moderator to jump in over 12 hours ago and got no response.
You think?
Nothing further to say to you.
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mrsjones5
I think her doubt just means that she was human and doesn't make me think less of her.
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RAF
if you have to deal with painall year long I guess there's room to wonder ... BUT SHE'VE BEEN HELPED !!!
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BizzyBee
"In the end, it was the Sunday afternoon he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55 when you know you've taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long, dark teatime of the soul."
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