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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mark silvers who wrote (26821)	12/10/1998 1:17:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Mark, Re Mother Teresa: One person can do a great deal, especially when that one person has the attention of the worldwide media. Look at Gandhi, for whom nobody has proposed sainthood. It's better to teach someone to fish than to give him a fish. It doesn't hurt to teach people that nobody is born with the right to take their fish away, either. But the churches might not like that. Steve

To: mark silvers who wrote (26821)	12/19/1998 7:39:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Mark, the things I have read about Mother Teresa are quite a bit less than flattering. The allegations that concern me in particular are her association with Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti's ruthless dictator, her association with Charles Keating, who stole billions of dollars in the savings and loan scandal, and the ones about how the starving people in India who made their way to her were not offered any pain medications when they were dying. Frankly, I consider her sort of a ghoul!!! She seemed to actually get off on people suffering and dying in misery, because that was Christlike according to her understanding of Christ. Oh, the allegations about only Catholics being allowed to adopt children from her care, her ideology of no birth control even though India is horrendously overpopulated, and children in her orphanages having no toys to play with even though the Sisters of Charity had millions of dollars stashed away, are all disturbing to me. And of course, Mother Teresa always had world class medical care. You would think that if she was really into suffering and dying as a religious practice, she might have not resisted it so much for herself. I am aware that some very decent people respected Mother Teresa. But I also think it is important to maintain objectivity, and not just jump on a band wagon. Here are a couple of web sites I found which discuss Mother Teresa's dark side, including a review of Christopher Hitchens' book, which is called "The Missionary Position." He does have a sense of humor! There are other web sites which I have read in the past which go into greater detail about her associations with really otherwise slimy people who tried to rehabilitate themselves by giving her large sums of money, and the horrible conditions the poor lived and died in at her facilities, but I could not find them. I am sure they are detailed in Hitchens' book, however, which is only $10.00 at Amazon. Hitchens is a respected British journalist, incidentally. He was one of the talking heads on Larry King Live last night, in regard to the Clinton scandals. He is not crazy about Clinton, either, incidentally. au.osho.org amazon.com