Seven new Saints announced - 2 from U.S. - Mother Teresa overlooked.

by james_woods 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • keyser soze
    keyser soze

    Didn't Mother Theresa also have a bout of atheism towards the end of her life?

  • besty
    besty

    Hitchens also not beatified this time around - oh well...

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html

    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 been—she preferred California clinics when she got sick herself—and 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?

  • james_woods
    james_woods

    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.

    This is exactly my problem with the Mother Teresa legacy. What kind of crazy notion is it that teaches "suffering is a gift from God"?

    What kind of a ridiculous theology encourages high birth rates when a native group is already overpopulated and literally starving to death?

  • Bangalore
    Bangalore
  • james_woods
    james_woods

    Very interesting, Bangalore - I am going back this morning and read those threads.

  • designs
    designs

    Transfering donated money to a General Fund sounds like Wt. inc..

  • james_woods
    james_woods

    This struck me as one of the most hypocritical of all these stories:

    In 1995 the people of Ireland held a referendum on whether to allow divorce and remarriage. Mother Teresa intervened forcibly on the side of the "no" campaign. An irishwoman, if married to an alcoholic, incestuous abuser, was suppose to put up with it, or offer it up. But in the same year, Mother Teresa gave an interview to ladies' Home Journal saying she was glad to hear her friend Princess Diana was getting divorced, since the royal marriage was so obviously an unhappy one. I said I hoped this was hyporisy, since otherwise it would look like the medieval church, preaching strict morals to the poor and offering indulgences to the rich"

    No wonder the Vatican is reluctant to offer her memory a sainthood.

    Can you imagine this stuff coming out now, on top of the abuse scandals?

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