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but she looked after the sick? wasn't this charity that made her a saint?Pity she never lived by it; instead just leaving people to suffer.
Malcolm Muggeridge, who was a BBC researcher and reporter who was strongly atheistic, spent time with her and ended up converting to Catholicism as he was so impressed. He ended up writing a book about her that I read about four decades ago.but she looked after the sick? wasn't this charity that made her a saint?
She didn't really administer medicine or anything. She appeared mostly to run hospices designed to spread Catholicism.but she looked after the sick? wasn't this charity that made her a saint?
she wasn't a doctor, she couldn't give medicine recipies. only doctors that wanted to help mother teresa with her work could give medication.She didn't really administer medicine or anything. She appeared mostly to run hospices designed to spread Catholicism.
She enabled needless suffering when many of those people could have been treated. She saw suffering as good.she wasn't a doctor, she couldn't give medicine recipies. only doctors that wanted to help mother teresa with her work could give medication.
i don't think mother teresa refused the sick to be treated. it seems odd.She enabled needless suffering when many of those people could have been treated. She saw suffering as good.
Some googling will be of assistancei don't think mother teresa refused the sick to be treated. it seems odd.
i did a little search. well, only god can judge a person's soul, i guess.
But being a "saint" doesn't imply perfection by any means.From what I've studied, @Rival is correct. Sadly, she wasn't the saint the world thought her to be.
But being a "saint" doesn't imply perfection by any means.
@syo in the opening post wrote something quite beautiful, imo, and yet someone else felt a need to tear down the author, which begs the question why anyone would want to do that? Had syo tried to pawn her off as being perfect, then I could see such a response, but the OP doesn't do that.
IOW, are we to just start ragging on people for no reason other than to just tear them down? She wasn't perfect, and she not only never claimed as such, she wrote about her misgivings. So, should I look for the imperfections of others here at RF and rant on them? Why should I even want to do that?
And what have you done to help the poor? If you've done more than she, then I'll go along with what you say, but until then maybe "walk for a moon in another person's moccasins before criticizing them".If she hadn't mis-represented herself for years, I could be more forgiving. But she set herself up for extraordinary scrutiny, and she failed to clear the high bar she set for herself.
And what have you done to help the poor? If you've done more than she, then I'll go along with what you say, but until then maybe "walk for a moon in another person's moccasins before criticizing them".
The OP was beautiful-- too bad it so quickly degenerated into a judgement of character.
There's a differences between understandable missteps and betrayal of trust. When someone puts themselves forward as the head of a hospital, knowing that they will be relied on, they take on a duty to do the job properly.But being a "saint" doesn't imply perfection by any means.
@syo in the opening post wrote something quite beautiful, imo, and yet someone else felt a need to tear down the author, which begs the question why anyone would want to do that? Had syo tried to pawn her off as being perfect, then I could see such a response, but the OP doesn't do that.
IOW, are we to just start ragging on people for no reason other than to just tear them down? She wasn't perfect, and she not only never claimed as such, she wrote about her misgivings. So, should I look for the imperfections of others here at RF and rant on them? Why should I even want to do that?
But being a "saint" doesn't imply perfection by any means.
@syo in the opening post wrote something quite beautiful, imo, and yet someone else felt a need to tear down the author, which begs the question why anyone would want to do that? Had syo tried to pawn her off as being perfect, then I could see such a response, but the OP doesn't do that.
IOW, are we to just start ragging on people for no reason other than to just tear them down? She wasn't perfect, and she not only never claimed as such, she wrote about her misgivings. So, should I look for the imperfections of others here at RF and rant on them? Why should I even want to do that?