people like YOU who don’t do their homework
Why the gaslighting? The poor guy is suffering from writer's block. Let's help him out. What follows is but a small sampling of what has been documented re: the Mother Teresa scam.
1. She bought expired medicines at low cost and injected them into patients to show the world that she was treating people.
2. She had no love for the poor. She chose the poor because it's easy to fool them in the name of Jesus.
3. Only 7% of donations she received were spent on the poor; the remainder went into the bank accounts of various religious leaders.
4. Many of her patients didn't make it.
5. She admired the fascist government of Italy. She was also a friend of Haiti dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier who was later convicted of genocide. - Source:
Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict,
2002, by
Dr. Aroop Chatterjee from Kolkata (also published as
Mother Teresa: The Untold Story). He conducted a study on MT's charities during the MT era and interviewed witnesses.
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Inadequate care and alleged cruelty are among the accusations against Mother Teresa. According to a
2013 journal paper by Canadian academics Serge Larivée, Geneviève Chénard and Carole Sénéchal, Mother Teresa's clinics received millions of dollars in donations but lacked medical care, systematic diagnosis, necessary nutrition, and sufficient analgesics for those in pain. They also suggest Mother Teresa was in fact not very “saintly”. The report is entitled, “Les côtés ténébreux de Mère Teresa”, or loosely translated as,
The dark sides of Mother Teresa.
In an article in the journal “Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses” Canadian researchers suggest Mother Teresa was in fact not very “saintly”. The report is entitled, "Les côtés ténébreux de Mère Teresa" ,or loosely translated as, The dark sides of Mother Teresa. The research team of Profes
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Teresa was asked, 'Do you teach the poor to endure their lot?', and she said, "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people." (
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, 1995, page 11.)
Further, Christopher Hitchens is "Critic at Large" for
Vanity Fair, writes the
Minority Report column for
The Nation, and is a frequent guest on current affairs and commentary television programs. He has written numerous books on international current affairs, including
The Missionary Position. His movie exposing MT, "Hells Angel", was televised in the UK but banned in the USA.
For those who want the short version (6 pages) of
The Missionary Position, Hitchens granted an interview that recapitulates the most devastating critiques of Mother Teresa ever made. It also gives a very telling account by a leading journalist into the U.S. media's great reluctance to criticize religion and religious leaders. Here are a few excerpts from that interview:
"...we are up against, namely the problem of credulity. One of the most salient examples of people's willingness to believe anything if it is garbed in the appearance of holiness is the uncritical acceptance of the idea of Mother Teresa as a saint by people who would normally be thinking - however lazily - in a secular or rational manner."
"Why is it never mentioned that her stated motive for the work is that of proselytization for religious fundamentalism, for the most extreme interpretation of Catholic doctrine?"
"...[Teresa] had rallied to the side of the Duvalier family in Haiti, for instance, that she had taken money - over a million dollars - from Charles Keating, the Lincoln Savings and Loans swindler, even though it had been shown to her that the money was stolen; that she has been an ally of the most reactionary forces in India and in many other countries; that she has campaigned recently to prevent Ireland from ceasing to be the only country in Europe with a constitutional ban on divorce, that her interventions are always timed to assist the most conservative and obscurantist forces."
"I don't think that she's naive. I don't think she is particularly intelligent or that she has a complex mind, but I think she has a certain cunning....the genius of it is to make it look simple."
"...when Mother Teresa first met the pope in the Vatican, she arrived by bus dressed only in a sari that cost one rupee. Now that would be my definition of behaving ostentatiously. A normal person would put on at least her best scarf and take a taxi. To do it in the way that she did is the reverse of the simple path. It's obviously theatrical and calculated. And yet it is immediately written down as a sign of her utter holiness and devotion. Well, one doesn't have to be too cynical to see through that."
"The care facilities are grotesquely simple: rudimentary, unscientific, miles behind any modern conception of what medical science is supposed to do. There have been a number of articles I've collected - some more since my book came out - about the failure and primitivism of her treatment of lepers and the dying, of her attitude towards medication and prophylaxis. Very rightly is it said that she tends to the dying, because if you were doing anything but dying she hasn't really got much to offer."
"...the testimony of a former very active member of her Order who worked for her for many years...in the office Mother Teresa maintains in New York City. She was in charge of taking the money to the bank. She estimates that there must be $50 million in that bank account alone. She said that one of the things that began to raise doubts in her mind was that the Sisters always had to go around pretending that they were very poor and they couldn't use the money for anything in the neighborhood that required alleviation. Under the cloak of avowed poverty they were still soliciting donations, labor, food, and so on from local merchants. This she found as a matter of conscience to be offensive."
"I think [$50 million] is a very small portion, and we should call for an audit of her organization. She carefully doesn't keep the money in India because the Indian government requires disclosure of foreign missionary organizations funds."
"I was delighted by how much of her activity was available on film: for example, her praising the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. There is also film of her groveling to the Duvaliers: licking the feet of the rich instead of washing the feet of the poor. But "60 Minutes" demanded a price that was greater than the whole cost of the rest of the production. So we had to use stills."
"[Teresa's] break into stardom came when Malcolm Muggeridge - a very pious British political and social pundit - adopted her for his pet cause. In 1969, he made a very famous film about her life - and later a book - called
Something Beautiful for God. Both the book and the film deserve the label hagiography."
"...there is the general problem of credulity, of people being willing - once a reputation has been established - to judge people's actions by that reputation instead of the reputation by that action."
"There is a shallow, opportunist ecumenicism among religious extremists, and Mother Teresa is quite willingly and happily in its service. She knows exactly who she is working for and with."
"Mother Teresa was interviewed by
Ladies Home Journal, a magazine read by millions of American women, and in the course of it she says that she heard that Princess Diana was getting divorced and she really hopes so because she will be so much happier that way."
"I hesitated to cover this in my book [
Missionary Position], but I decided I had to publish that she has said that the suffering of the poor is something very beautiful and the world is being very much helped by the nobility of this example of misery and suffering."
The complete 6-page interview of Hitchens can be found
here as a free pdf.