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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (11920)	4/18/2001 11:52:32 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

But that's the problem, Christopher. There is the sweet, media-generated, Disneyesque cartoon. And there is the human being who used her considerable influence to prevent the poor of India from having access to birth control. And the reality is that that has consequences. And they are horrible consequences. Cruel and ugly. I don't understand sin-obsessed people trying to force others to live in ways that cause great misery. And I really really object to the romanticization of them. Love, indeed. Mother Teresa did not believe in the use of pain killers in her hospices. It was her policy. No pain killers. She believed that human suffering was a good thing. No hospital was ever built with the millions of dollars she collected from people who wanted to help the poor. Not one. Many convents were, though. It was all for her God. It was not to assuage the suffering of the poor. She was explicit and clear about this. The needles in her hospices were washed in cold water. Love indeed.