teresa's view of the poor:

[niyad]

“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.” - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2008/05/mother-teresa/#sthash.5SeaqOCl.dpuf

[djean111]

1. I worked with a contractor from India who said one thing was for sure -

if you were poor and sick and saw Mother Theresa, you were not going to get help, you were going to die. He thought it was kind of funny how many Americans thought she actually helped the poor, and told me it was really angering that she got so much medical help when she was sick, but the poor were expected to just die gracefully.

[smirkymonkey]

3. It amazes me how so many people see her as the paragon of saintliness.

She was anything but. And there is plenty of evidence to back it up.

[wheniwasincongress]

4. Why do people love her?

A) Do they know what she believed and said, and they agreed with it?

B) Or do they know nothing of her beliefs in how great it is for poor people to suffer? Do they just see a cute old woman being touted as a "saint" and roll with it?

[smirkymonkey]

5. Her reputation has been whitewashed. She was actually an evil old

woman who expected others to suffer and die for her ridiculous religious beliefs while she took the money that people sent her to help them and directed it to Christian Missionaries and god knows what else with it. Of course, when it came time for her to suffer, she made use of the best of what Western medicine had to offer. She was the ultimate hypocrite.

[LiberalElite]

7. I think they buy into the P.R. eom

[Mariana]

2. Yeah, she thought suffering was a wonderful thing

as long as it was other people doing the suffering. She wasn't interested in doing any of it herself.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Exactly!

She was far from a saint. A quite repulsive human being actually.

[LiberalElite]

6. A good friend of mine

worked for a Catholic relief agency for many years and traveled to India numerous times. She was having none of that holy Mother Teresa stuff. If she were alive today my friend would be livid that she's going to be a "saint." I was raised RC and IMHO the Catholic Church has a kind of poor people fetish.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Can you explain more? What did she say about her?

I have heard all the Christopher Hitchens stuff, but would be interested in a first hand account.

[LiberalElite]

10. My friend was in India at least 30 years ago -I don't remember much, sorry - just that my friend had

reason to believe that Mother Teresa was a phony.

[smirkymonkey]

12. I believe it. The way she made people suffer when she had plenty of

money to offer palliative care is evil in itself. I happen to think she was a horrid person.

[REP]

11. Hell's angel.

I wish that I believed in hell because that's where dear Agnes belongs. She was a nasty piece of vicious trash.

[smirkymonkey]

13. I agree. The fact that she is up for sainthood would be laughable if it

weren't for the tragic effects that she had on her victims.

[UTUSN]

14. Good thing I'm not a Pope n/t

[niyad]

15. . .

[Archae]

16. The Vatican has a long history of making into saints, some of the rottenest people.

Like this one Pope from the Middle Ages, John something.

He bribed his way in, and looted the Vatican treasury to pay his gambling debts.

He also had sex with any and every woman he could find, especially married ones.

Finally one of his mistresses' husbands caught him screwing his wife, and beat him to death.

As to these "miracles" attributed to Teresa, the "investigation" was like those "Ghost Hunters" TV shows.

"Was it a miracle?"
"Yes it was."
"That's good enough..."

[niyad]

17. you have that correct.