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Originally Posted by SomeKindaMother
I understand what was upsetting to him, but my point is the she didn’t ‘take’ anything. She lived in poverty for crying out loud. If people gave money in her name and it was “misused” by the powers that be, then that is a separate issue from her ‘person’. She didn’t campaign for anything. She simply led a beautiful life in service to plagued people that others wouldn’t even touch. I mean she cleaned them....she didn’t just read to them. Sick, stinking people with oozing sores. She did the most disgusting of chores that I’ll bet most of us couldn’t stomach. She let dying people know love and compassion. Her extraordinarily loving and selfless acts are what got her noticed by people. Many of those wanted to donate money. If you believe her name was capitalized on, that’s a separate issue…one which I have no information on or inclination to gather. I personally know someone who went to Mother Theresa’s missions on several occasions to help with the poor and sick. These places *where she lived* are disease ridden and not for the faint of heart. I didn’t try to get you to believe in God, or that Mother Theresa is a saint. You may believe the Vatican, or even all religion is corrupt, but I certainly don’t know where you think you have evidence to vilify her as an individual.
By the way, I think you misunderstood my comment about her being condemned for not doing enough. All the good she obviously did, according to the account I was responding to, not only doesn’t matter, but deems her worthy of condemnation because she didn’t personally account for money people donated to some charity in her name, contact the proper authorities to make sure it all went to the designers, architects, etc. And in her spare time she should have taken on politics. All the woman ever wanted to do was care for those considered worthless and untouchable by the masses. Yeah, a real witch all right. I am really trying to make a valid point…not to be disagreeable for its own sake.
“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” –Mother Theresa
Kelly  ....who believes in birth control and is pro choice, pro marriage for all, and still can see past my beliefs to hers....and the phenomenal good in this beautiful woman. She actually lived her beliefs. How many of us can say that? |
She lived in poverty, but she worked
for the Vatican. It's not random higher ups, and it's not that she didn't know where the money went and had no control over it - she had strong religious beliefs, and so she condoned the Vatican taking money from people under false pretenses, in her name, and using it for missionary work instead of what the donors had actually donated it for. (India).
Missionary work is to get poeple in other countries (Africa) christianized. The practice in itself is abhorrent, but when you lie about it, that makes it worse. And when you take money for it in your name, from people who donated that money for India, and don't tell them what it's used for, that is double worse. Christianization is not necessary for any third world countries, food and shelter and education is.
She can have lived her entire life in a cardboard box, or under my nosehairs for all I care - the point is still that she lied for her faith, or helped others to lie about donations. And the money went to the Vatican for christ's sake - correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Vatican immensely wealthy already?
Great, she administered to the sick and poor. Curtis and Paula do that every day, too, but they haven't been nominated for sainthood. I get that she helped and comforted people, but the basis of lies leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
If you have no information about people who "capitalized" on her name, and no inclination to gather any, then how can you possibly contend that she is blameless? You only know one side as it stands right now.