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Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
Sun Sep 4, 2016, 02:36 PM Sep 2016

Sadistic Religious Fanatic: Mother Teresa Was No Saint -


Teresa was anything but a saint. The nun may have been generous with her prayers, but she was miserly with her foundation’s millions when it came to alleviating the suffering of the sick and the poor.

The celebrated nun had 517 missions in 100 countries at the time of her death. Yet despite plenty of funds, the majority of patients were not cared for properly, many being left to suffer and die without appropriate medical care or pain medication.

Indeed, conditions in the the Missionaries of Charity’s hospices were deplorable. In fact, Teresa refused to introduce the most basic methods of hygiene, even going so far as to reuse needles without sterilization.

According to one study, doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions and a shortage of actual care, food and painkillers. They say that the problem was not a lack of funds because the Order of the Missionaries of Charity successfully raised hundreds of millions of dollars.

Perhaps worse that the medical malpractice, was Teresa’s perverse and sadistic ability to take pleasure in the suffering of others. The fact is, Teresa believed that suffering – even when caused by poverty, medical problems, or starvation – was a gift from God.

- See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/09/sadistic-religious-fanatic-mother-teresa-was-no-saint/#sthash.mkRUwtsv.dpuf

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rug

(82,333 posts)
1. I'm kicking this for you, warren. You're striving mightily to make some sort of point.
Sun Sep 4, 2016, 03:43 PM
Sep 2016

What's got your goat today?

struggle4progress

(118,281 posts)
4. The 1979 Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony Speech
Sun Sep 4, 2016, 04:56 PM
Sep 2016

Presentation Speech by Professor John Sanness
Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

... She had a glimpse of the poverty and squalor of the slums, of sick people who remained untended, of lonely men and women lying down to die on the pavement, of the thousands of orphaned children wandering around with no one to care for them ...

The hallmark of her work has been respect for the individual and the individual's worth and dignity ...

She has arrived at an attitude to the relationship between donor and recipient which eliminates the generally accepted conceptual distinction. In her eyes the person who, in the accepted sense, is the recipient, is also the giver, and the one who gives most. Giving - giving something of oneself - is what confers real joy, and the person who is allowed to give is the one who receives the most precious gift. Where others see clients or customers, she sees fellow-workers, a relationship based not on the expectation of gratitude on the one part, but on mutual understanding and respect, and a warm human and enriching contact ...


http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/presentation-speech.html

edhopper

(33,575 posts)
5. The Nobel prize for peace
Sun Sep 4, 2016, 05:35 PM
Sep 2016

when she said:

“I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion"

I am sure plenty of other Democrats feel that way.

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