I find that people are less Anti-Christian in the US, and more Anti-annoying Christian.
Christians who keep to themselves are rarely singled out. It is those who try to "educate" others on how they should live their lives who get singled out for commentary. As a Christian, I have never been...
How does one make millions of people suffer when they would never have received treatment in the first place? Not to mention that you are incorrect?
Her initiative has everything to do with it.
It isn't misconception, it is praise for her taking initiative to help out those less fortunate.
I'm sorry you miss this simple, yet very critical, distinction.
And I won't even get into the fact that your initial post is factually incorrect. It really doesn't matter if we are only discussion...
But the point remains that getting a royal flush 40 times in a row is pure luck, because of its statistical improbability. Getting any combination of cards 40 times in a row is "lucky" if one subscribes to the theory that luck is a way to refer to statistical outliers.
What if we don't value a tolerant god? What if I want a hardass to lay down the rules?
What are the benefits of a tolerant God, and who defines "tolerant"?
It all comes back to being an ideal man created.
In my opinion, people looking to be critical of Mother Teresa are the type of people who will be critical of anything. And they most likely won't bring a solution to their critical views, but will just spout them off because they dislike everything.
To me, this is the essential answer to this thread. It isn't about who is right or wrong, or whose manuscript has been translated, re-translated, or completely made up. It is about having one group aggressively confront another group about their beliefs and essentially tell them they are wrong...
I've often thought I've known someone before, and after minutes, hours or sometimes days, I make the connection of how I think I "know" them, and inevitably, it comes from a likeness in eyes, facial expressions, or voice inflections of another person I know.
It has always been in the visual sense.
No that's not what I'm saying. It is two-fold - the poster cannot articulate in english what they know, and that which they can articulate is an illogical mess meant only to criticize another's faith.
If I were to enter a Dutch forum, I think I would learn Dutch well-enough to make my points...