Mother Teresa - 20 years ago

Doltanian · 05-09-2017 10:37PM #1

20 years ago on this day we said goodbye to a champion of Humanity Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She devoted her life to helping the poor and destitute, often her care was the only attention they received on their death bed. Her order of nuns continue to do great work in India and worldwide today. Her death was overshadowed by the media circus surrounding the death of Lady Diana at the time.

Two great women of charity and who had the best at heart for the poor and destitute.

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jojofizzio · 05-09-2017 10:44PM

"Candle in the wind" followed shortly by "Sandals in the Bin"....I know I know ,I'll burn in hell for all eternity for that..

Working class heroes · 05-09-2017 10:46PM

She was worse than Hitler. There, I said it.

Roger Hassenforder · 05-09-2017 10:48PM

Doltanian wrote: »

Two great women of charity and who had the best at heart for the poor and destitute.

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Which one is which?

Arsemageddon · 05-09-2017 10:49PM

This week 20 years ago I was getting seriously fvcked up in Amsterdam.

I am certain this is how Mother Theresa would like me to have marked her passing.

RayM · 05-09-2017 10:51PM

I have a vague memory of the British press trying to imply that she died of a broken heart as a result of Diana's death.

tupenny · 05-09-2017 10:51PM

Yeah she was a ****.
We know.
Were you wanting a debate?

Jim Bob Scratcher · 05-09-2017 10:51PM

Working class heroes wrote: »

She was worse than Hitler. There, I said it.

Condoms are worse than aids

PirateShampoo · 05-09-2017 10:53PM

A lovely woman who believed "The sick must suffer like Christ on the cross"

Working class heroes · 05-09-2017 10:53PM

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Condoms are worse than aids

You're doing it wrong.

Jim Bob Scratcher · 05-09-2017 10:54PM

Working class heroes wrote: »

You're doing it wrong.

Lead the way almighty one

Working class heroes · 05-09-2017 10:56PM

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Lead the way almighty one

Abstain baby, abstain till your wedding night or burn in hell.

Irish Praetorian · 05-09-2017 11:03PM

I believe Christopher Hitchens wrote a fairly scathing assessment of her work in the late 90s, sadly the name of the book escapes me.

the_pen_turner · 05-09-2017 11:04PM

she was probably one of the worst people to ever walk the planet and should be remembered as such

Miss Demeanour · 05-09-2017 11:05PM

the_pen_turner wrote: »

she was probably one of the worst people to ever walk the planet and should be remembered as such

Ah Diana wasnt that bad.

Jim Bob Scratcher · 05-09-2017 11:06PM

Irish Praetorian wrote: »

I believe Christopher Hitchens wrote a fairly scathing assessment of her work in the late 90s, sadly the name of the book escapes me.

I believe it was called The Missionary Position :pac:

Ipso · 05-09-2017 11:06PM

Irish Praetorian wrote: »

I believe Christopher Hitchens wrote a fairly scathing assessment of her work in the late 90s, sadly the name of the book escapes me.

Was it The Missionary Position? I think he described her as a friend of poverty, not of the poor. She was also a bit pally with a Caribbean dictator (Duvalier?)

bob50 · 05-09-2017 11:09PM

Terrible the way Mother Teresa is spoken about here

She was a saint to a lot of people in Calcutta

And was she given the freedom of the city here when she was last here?

EPAndlee · 05-09-2017 11:09PM

Can't believe Stewie let her over dose in the back of the car

Seth Brundle · 05-09-2017 11:10PM

"Mother Teresa believed the sick must suffer like Christ on the cross"
This and many other facts about her lack of concern for the sick and dying are detailed here...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa

Fr_Dougal · 05-09-2017 11:11PM

She had a massive coke habit.

bob50 · 05-09-2017 11:18PM

I was just checking

I see Mother Teresa is now known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta

i remember when she and lady Diana died The outpouring of mass hysteria and Grief when Lady Di was killed in car crash in England And Mother Teresa a few days llater the difference in media coverage of both women was totally one sided and both were were known worldwide

road_high · 05-09-2017 11:21PM

Irish Praetorian wrote: »

I believe Christopher Hitchens wrote a fairly scathing assessment of her work in the late 90s, sadly the name of the book escapes me.

This Missionary Position!! Also there's a tv program on YouTube- I could listen to him for hours, blows the love in that is the Theresa Cult to smithereens

road_high · 05-09-2017 11:23PM

bob50 wrote: »

Terrible the way Mother Teresa is spoken about here

She was a saint to a lot of people in Calcutta

And was she given the freedom of the city here when she was last here?

She was a conniving fundamentalist cow...and that's the mild version of what I think of her. People here speak the truth. Vampire of Calcutta would be far more appropriate for that cretin

the_pen_turner · 05-09-2017 11:33PM

bob50 wrote: »

Terrible the way Mother Teresa is spoken about here

She was a saint to a lot of people in Calcutta

And was she given the freedom of the city here when she was last here?

How about posting something good that she did.

freedom of cities and being a saint mean nothing.

she would fly around in private jets , stay in 5 star villas and eat insanely expensive food, get top of the range million dollar medical treatments all while the poor and needy were starving in her hospitals, her staff would reuse needles on hundreds of patients until they could not be used anymore,
she would deny patients with insane amounts of pain any kind of pain killers .
she believed that she should lock away the sick and let them suffer in the name of religion.

Wake up to the reality of it.

kylith · 05-09-2017 11:50PM

Working class heroes wrote: »

She was worse than Hitler. There, I said it.

bob50 wrote: »

Terrible the way Mother Teresa is spoken about here

She was a saint to a lot of people in Calcutta

And was she given the freedom of the city here when she was last here?

She left the poor to die on palliasses without proper medication, sanitation or access to pain relief, and needles were reused until blunt. Meanwhile she pumped millions upon millions of dollars in donations (in one case that she knew to have been stolen and refused to return) into building more convents.

If I knew where her grave was I'd be sorely tempted to piss on it.

missgeri · 06-09-2017 12:00AM

she was a vile and evil woman who only truly cared about herself and her church.

an absolute...insert 4 letter word being with c and ending in t.

Kalimah · 06-09-2017 12:01AM

I saw her grave earlier this year in Calcutta. It's a very nice marble tomb in the Mother House. I thought it sat very badly with the way the people in her "hospitals" were treated. I call her the Ghoul of Calcutta. I think Christopher Hitchens might have called her that in one of his books. Or maybe it was someone else?
I have zero time for her.

lazybones32 · 06-09-2017 12:06AM

Her work and her self is being criticised by people who probably haven't dirtied their hands with the rejects of society.

KKkitty · 06-09-2017 12:16AM

lazybones32 wrote: »

Her work and her self is being criticised by people who probably haven't dirtied their hands with the rejects of society.

As if the downtrodden in society aren't having life hard enough you have to use the phrase "dirtied their hands". Whatever anyone who is downtrodden is going through anyone that helps them shouldn't see it as dirtying their hands to assist them they see it as being a normal human being helping out another when they need it the most. If you were at your lowest point in life would anyone that helps you be dirtying their hands? Simple answer is no. Mother Teresa was put up on a pedestal. She sure as hell has been knocked off it now with the revelations of what exactly went on in her missionaries.

markodaly · 06-09-2017 12:17AM

The keyboard warriors are strong on this thread. All mouth, no trousers as they say in Scotland.

Mother Teresa - 20 years ago

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