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The dark side of Mother Teresa
Erich Vieth | May 21, 2008 |
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The next time someone gets all misty-eyed when talking about the saintliness of Mother Teresa, have them read
this post by Ebonmuse at Daylight Atheism. Heres an excerpt:
Teresa was a friend to vicious dictators, criminals and con men. As Christopher Hitchens documents in his book
The Missionary Position, Teresa was acquainted with a startling number of unsavory characters. Two such were the Duvaliers, Jean-Claude and Michelle, who ruled Haiti as a police state from 1971 until they were overthrown in a popular uprising in 1986. (They looted the country of most of its national treasury when they fled.) Teresa visited them in person in 1981 and praised the Duvaliers and their regime as friends of the poor, and her testimony on their behalf was shown on state-owned television for weeks.
Bizarrely, she also visited the grave of brutal Communist dictator Enver Hoxha in 1990, laying a wreath of flowers on the tomb of a man who had viciously suppressed religion in Teresas native Albania. The list also includes the Nicaraguan
contras, a Catholic terrorist group who unleashed death squads on the civilian population in their bid to conquer the country.
Teresa was also a friend to Charles Keating, a conservative Catholic fundamentalist who served on an anti-pornography commission under President Nixon. Keating would later become infamous for his role in the Savings & Loan scandal, where he was convicted of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy for his involvement in a scam where customers were deceived into buying worthless junk bonds, resulting in many of them losing their life savings. Keating had donated $1.25 million to Mother Teresa in the 1980s, and as he was awaiting sentencing, she wrote a letter to the court on his behalf asking for clemency.
The above post is a potent counter-balance to all the Mother Teresa hype.
My biggest concern with Mother Teresa was her destructive approach to family planning. How is it possible that she didnt see the connection between the out-of-control birth rate and the resulting poverty? I suspect that she
did see the connection, but was unwilling to speak the obvious. That would have caused people to stop
adoring her. Further, Mother Teresa was far too enamored with the rich and famous and she was unwilling to give up that limelight. In the meantime, her irresponsible approach to family-planning created an ocean of grief which she tried to clean up, a teaspoon at a time.
Simple-minded self-ignorant acts of kindness can be destructive in the aggregate. Mother Teresas advocacy of the
lack of family planning is on a continuum with all of those politicians who kiss all those babies (perhaps because they really do like babies), but then go back to Washington to rip away their health care coverage.
To cap it all off, Mother Teresa was intellectually dishonest,
living a closeted a life as an agnostic while publicly proclaiming her alleged great faith.
Theres not nearly as much work for saints to do when we all start living responsibly and honestly, focusing on the root causes of problems.
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