Was Hitchens right about Mother Theresa?

[boomerang]

To Christopher Hitchens or anyone else who criticizes Mother Theresa’s works, I have one comment. ***Let me see you do it better. Put up, or shut up. ***

 

[Bradski]

It was the case.

I’m not exactly how you can say that what I posted was not the case, as you have confirmed it below.

Now, she could have taken some money off the top in order to provide for some extra supplies to each house, but (controversially) she didn’t, and that is because her houses were set up for the express purpose of her volunteers encountering the dying, and for the dying to encounter Christ. So yes, missionary in nature,

So yes, the places were where people went to die and there was no money for anything more than basic sanitation, disposable needles, analgesia, basic diagnostics – because, as you say yourself, she didn’t make the money available. They could have easily been so much more than simply somewhere where the nuns could proselytize.

I doubt very much if anyone handed over their hard-earned cash to the charity on the understanding that next to nothing would be done to ease the physical suffering. One must surely wonder how many people could have been saved from death with a few simple procedures. But encountering Christ seems to have been more important.

 

[Origen52]

If anyone wants to read the Lancet article by Dr Fox, it will cost $35.95 sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673694923531?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb&ccp=y

There’s an interesting article “If the mainstream media covered Jesus the way it covered Mother Teresa”
americamagazine.org/content/all-things/jesus-visits-town-trailing-controversy

Here is an interesting blog entry written while Mother was still alive. maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/saturday%20night_new/907A-000-001.html

My opinion is that if Mother was so awful, she would not have the respect she does among most Indian people. Also, it’s telling that none of her critics showed her how things should be done. I found no evidence that any of them built a first class, free hospital for the poor, maybe it’s not as easily done as they imply.

Always remember that it is easier to curse the dark, than it is to light a candle. Why, because lighting a candle takes effort. So if you don’t like the way someone is doing something there are two things you can do. 1. join them and help make things better, or 2. start your own organization and show how things should be done. To my knowledge none of Mother’s most vocal critics have done either.

 

[alliWantisGod]

it appears you have overlooked the fact that I already stated I made this mistake and meant to say “the missionary position”

 

[alliWantisGod]

What makes you think that a forum of Catholics would be interested in a denigrating defamation of one of their saints?

Because it gives you an insight on somebody else’s perspective, and it can be used as knowledge to refute one’s argument