Was Mother Teresa not so saintly after all?

I would consider myself an Atheist, but the following details the flaws with this 'article'.

1 - Daily Mail.

That is all.

I wouldn't imagine that she was the one doing the books, she probably recruited someone from Anglo.

starlings wrote: »

She was one of Christopher Hitchens' favourite sacred cows 10 years ago.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html

He made a documentary about her called 'Hell's Angel'... it's on YouTube.. bit of a harsh title imo, but some interesting points raised in it.

This has been known for quite a while, but the media, especially here in Ireland, have been very reluctant to touch it because she has for so long been held up as the gold standard for what a good person is supposed to do.

In reality what she did was gather sick people into the same place so they could all die together. She didn't actually do anything to relieve suffering (if anything she relished it) and made no attempt to make these people's lives better. Many people in her institutions died of curable illness and in horrific pain due to their policy of not treating illness or providing any kind of pain relief.

One example of this is the "miracle" on which she was beatified. A woman with tuberculosis and ovarian cysts was "miraculously" cured. Was it Teresa praying over her, or perhaps it was the months of drugs being administered to her by doctors. Left in Mother Teresa's care, this woman would actually have died of an illness which proved ultimately curable.

Money collected by her charities donated by people who were no doubt under the impression that she was "helping the black babies" was used for religious purposes, with practically none of it being spent to relieve pain and suffering.

At best you could say that she saved people by putting them into an institution and not letting them die alone. The ethos behind her institutions was actually quite sick and did basically nothing to improve the lot of the poor of calcutta.

Crazy religious bitch. She thought suffering was holy, fuck her

her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received

It was just resting in her account...

jaja321 wrote: »

She didn’t believe in the use of contraception either, which considering the effect that not being able to space births or have control over your reproductive health has on poverty, was dangerous and irresponsible.

She must have done, as I don't recall her having any kids.

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Crazy religious bitch. She thought suffering was holy, fuck her

She still done far more to help people than most world leaders were doing at the time. I doubt many of the children she evacuated from an under siege Beirut would say today that they would have been better off without her help.