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In reply to the discussion: Christopher Hitchens - Mother Teresa: Hell's Angel [View all]trotsky
(49,533 posts)34. Agnes Bojaxhiu collected hundreds of millions of dollars in donations.
Where did all that money go?
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?
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/a-new-expose-on-mother-teresa-shows-that-she-and-the-vatican-were-even-worse-than-we-thought/
At the time of her death, Mother Teresa had opened 517 missions welcoming the poor and sick in more than 100 countries. The missions have been described as homes for the dying by doctors visiting several of these establishments in Calcutta. Two-thirds of the people coming to these missions hoped to a find a doctor to treat them, while the other third lay dying without receiving appropriate care. The doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions, as well as a shortage of actual care, inadequate food, and no painkillers. The problem is not a lack of moneythe Foundation created by Mother Teresa has raised hundreds of millions of dollarsbut rather a particular conception of suffering and death: There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christs Passion. The world gains much from their suffering, was her reply to criticism, cites the journalist Christopher Hitchens. Nevertheless, when Mother Teresa required palliative care, she received it in a modern American hospital.
Why didn't she choose to honor god with her suffering, as she forced others to?
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I don't recall that Hitchens ever had anything good to say about anyone. So this comes as no surprise
The_Casual_Observer
Sep 2016
#3
The lack of toilets and the general lack of sanitation in the missions is independently documented.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2016
#9
India's 900 largest cities generate at least 29 thousand million liters of sewage daily
struggle4progress
Sep 2016
#31
... Calcutta's sewage system was created under the British around the turn of the century
struggle4progress
Sep 2016
#33
The actual facts might interest anyone who is really concerned about sanitation in India,
struggle4progress
Sep 2016
#44
Thats a pretty brave stand. Spent a lot of time in places like Calcutta have you?
The_Casual_Observer
Sep 2016
#12
The day that you or Hitchens are awarded a Nobel Prize or become saints
The_Casual_Observer
Sep 2016
#19
The problem those who make such observations have is Hitchens wasn't the only one calling bullshit
Major Nikon
Sep 2016
#6
It really isn't RCC doctrine that the dying poor should be denied palliative care.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2016
#10