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philipjames
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 Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: Mother Teresa: corrupt, ignorant and unhelpful? |
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Seems like, in the clear light of day, "Mother' Teresa was far from being a saint. She was as much a cause of poverty and ignorance than its alleviation. One more reason to abandon medieval superstition. (Hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, and she failed to build a single hospital.)
Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQejG7-sGk4&feature=related |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree. |
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RACETRAITOR
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Penn and Teller did an episode about her on their show I'm not allowed to mention on here, where they tried to deflate Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama. They definitely made Mother Teresa look the worst. The impression I got is she opened all these "hospitals" which were really just places for people to waste away and die, and she took some sort of sick religious delight in all the suffering. |
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ED209
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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I want my nun bun back 
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just4u
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Location: Georgia, USA
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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ED209
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| just4u wrote: |
Who ARE you? LOL I know someone who wears her hair in a bun all the time...  |
Have you mistaken me for a she, someone who wears their hair in a bun or both? Either way, no hairy buns please! |
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just4u
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boatofcar
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| You know you can trust a site like atheistmedia.blogspot.com for unbiased reporting. |
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ED209
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| just4u wrote: |
| Are you a guy? How do you have fun with nun buns, then, pray tell? |
You're making me think way too much about my gender and sexuality. I'm off to build shed and repair a lawnmower. |
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just4u
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Penn and Teller did an episode about her on their show I'm not allowed to mention on here, where they tried to deflate Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama. They definitely made Mother Teresa look the worst. The impression I got is she opened all these "hospitals" which were really just places for people to waste away and die, and she took some sort of sick religious delight in all the suffering. |
Yeah. Basically everyone was giving money thinking she was opening real hospitals. You know where sick people get better. But she was just interested in opening warehouses where people came to die. Before they died, they would convert to catholocism. And then maybe after 10,000 new soul went to heaven, Jesus would talk to her again like he did before.
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| In university I did an undergrad class report on the value of Nobel peace prize winner Jane Addams as a model for mediation (the course was in the Conflict Resolution Studies dep't of the university) and it was a compare and contrast approach, and I used Mother Teresa as the contrasting bad example. I had dozen of academic sources and cited every factual claim and yet the professor and Conflict Resolution Studies majors were HORRIFIED: I hadn't accounted for the fact that they are almost all devout Christians who BELIEVE in Mother Tesesa and that reason had nothing to do with it. My thesis was blasephemy, or it sure seemed like it from their reaction: offended that anything negative could be said about what she had done. |
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itaewonguy
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: |
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she still gave hope to millions..
she was a spokes person for the church!
every organization has one.. |
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eamo
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| She was Albanian? I did not know that. |
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blondebecky
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
she still gave hope to millions..
she was a spokes person for the church!
every organization has one.. |
I'm not sure about this one - I've read some of what Christopher Hitchens & others have said about her, and, if what they say is true, then perhaps she's not as worthy of admiration as people think.
However, I'd like to ask this question - what have Christopher Hitchens/Richard Dawkins/other famous atheists ever done for the relief of the poor and less fortunate? Instead of wasting their energies on discrediting a dead woman, perhaps they could devote themselves to establishing the hospitals they claim she never opened? |
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