Mother Teresa, if anyone wants a thread

This thread is based on a conversation here, starting around post #160. There might be some interest in a Mother Teresa thread, maybe not.

So far, I posted:

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Originally Posted by Pup On Mother Teresa, there are many voices about her beyond Hitchens and the one brief link RogueKitten posted. For example: http://ift.tt/29553e6 It's a serious and thoughtful interview with a former nun in her order. Such things like the following show how Mother Teresa's goals and worldview differed from her critics': Quote: Quote: Because of her opposition to contraception and her seeming disinterest in modern medicine, some have called Mother Teresa a friend of poverty rather than a friend of the poor. How do you see that? Johnson: Most people today would say that we help the poor by helping them out of poverty. That was never Mother Teresa’s intention. Mother Teresa often told us that as Missionaries of Charity we did not serve the poor to improve their lot, but because we were serving Jesus, who said that whenever service was rendered to one of the least, it was rendered to him. If one agrees with that outlook and more explained elsewhere in detail, Mother Teresa's actions are generally consistent with her religious views and charitable actions. Her views though are just so opposed to what I'd consider common sense and my own outlook, that I can't support them. For example, it's one thing to be unable to help the poor, or to disagree whether to give them money or education, but in the above quote, Mother Teresa is described as someone who needs the poor to be poor, so she can serve them. She'd never run out--Jesus promised that--but it's just such a strange emphasis. But it explains why applying church donations to alleviate poverty wasn't the point.

Tinribmancer posted some links for those who read Dutch.

RogueKitten posted this link: http://ift.tt/2955g0E

Don't know if there's any further interest in a thread supposed to be focussed on evidence, but if anybody wants it, here it is. Have at it!

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