Mother Teresa Was No Saint
To canonize Mother Teresa would be to seal the lid on her problematic legacy, which includes forced conversion, questionable relations with dictators, gross mismanagement, and actually, pretty bad medical care. Worst of all, she was the quintessential white person expending her charity on the third world -- the entire reason for her public image, and the source of immeasurable scarring to the postcolonial psyche of India and its diaspora.
A 2013 study from the University of Ottawa dispelled the "myth of altruism and generosity" surrounding Mother Teresa, concluding that her hallowed image did not stand up to the facts, and was basically the result of a forceful media campaign from an ailing Catholic Church.
Although she had 517 missions in 100 countries at the time of her death, the study found that hardly anyone who came seeking medical care found it there. Doctors observed unhygienic, "even unfit," conditions, inadequate food, and no painkillers -- not for lack of funding, in which Mother Theresa's world-famous order was swimming, but what the study authors call her "particular conception of suffering and death."
"There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ's Passion. The world gains much from their suffering," Mother Teresa once told the unamused Christopher Hitchens.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/krithika-varagur/mother-teresa-was-no-saint_b_9470988.html
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I will just say lead by example.
I feel so ashamed!
Do me a favor and stop the your better than this line.
(you may remember him from the 70's TV programme where he and a bishop attacked the Pythons John Cleese and Michael Palin for making Life of Brian and thus being beastly to Baby Jesus) once made a programme on this odious woman in which he claimed that Gawd had sent a mysterious Heavenly light into her hospital while he was there filming so that her saintly features would be visible on the film. There was apparently no other way that the interior of the gloomy, pokey little hospital would be visible.
The cameraman later expressed his appreciation for the new, sensitive Kodak film that he was using - for that very reason. But let's not let reality stand in the way of a good dose of bullshit, right?
But, hey, here's Hillary Clinton hand-in-hand with the Poison Dwarf:
Checkmate atheists!
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that explains it. 
As does my middle-class Jewish upbringing.
...I give you Cubanos.
Ham and turkey, Swiss cheese, and mustard (pickles optional) on French bread, flattened in a hot press until the bread is crispy and cheese melted.
If by chance I'm wrong and there is a God, this is the sandwich it eats when it gets hungry.... unless it's Cthulhu. It eats people when it gets hungry.
