http://www.rediff.com/news/report/conversion-was-behind-mother-teresas-service-rss-chief/20150223.htm
[QUOTE]Conversion to Christianity was the main objective behind Mother Teresa's service to the poor, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Monday
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laks0;595526http://www.rediff.com/news/report/conversion-was-behind-mother-teresas-service-rss-chief/20150223.htm
Is it untrue? Did they not require conversion as a part of service rendered? If it is untrue, his bluffing should be exposed.
I know ppl in my neigborhood/workplace that collect money and provide financial incentives to poor ppl in india to have them join their church. It is a fact. Nothing to get worked up about. The poor convert in hopes of a better life. That too is a fact. RSS walas have issue with conversion, churchwalas have issues with deconversion. Both want to secure their follower base and hold remote control in their hands.
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BeeAndButterfly;595533Is it untrue? Did they not require conversion as a part of service rendered? If it is untrue, his bluffing should be exposed.
To my knowledge there was no "requirement" to convert but she was a missionary and preached christian values and subservience to Jesus Christ. BTW, Bhagwat did not say she required conversion but that was her objective. It could have been a objective, may be not THE objective - she was a missionary after all.
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Bhaktas and RSS talking non sense about Mother Teresa.
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Should not speak ill of the dead but since we are bringing it up. I thought left-libs were all into facts and empirical evidence and not under the blind sway of leaders :). Also that they were all for freedom of speech.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Mother-Teresa-saint-of-the-media-controversial-study-says/articleshow/18760028.cms?referral=PM
According to the study, the Vatican overlooked the crucial human side of Teresa — her dubious way of caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it.
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According to the study, the doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions and a shortage of actual care, food and painkillers. They say that the problem was not a paucity of funds as the Order of the Missionaries of Charity successfully raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Researchers said that when it came to her own treatment, "she received it in a modern American hospital".
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Researchers Serge Larivee and Genevieve Chenard from the University of Montreal's department of psychoeducation, and Carole Senechal of the University of Ottawa's faculty of education, analysed published writings about Mother Teresa and concluded that her hallowed image, "which does not stand up to analysis of the facts, was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media campaign".
Essay by Hitchens on MT
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html
MT was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan. Where did that money, and all the other donations, go? The primitive hospice in Calcutta was as run down when she died as it always had been—she preferred California clinics when she got sick herself—and her order always refused to publish any audit. But we have her own claim that she opened 500 convents in more than a hundred countries, all bearing the name of her own order. Excuse me, but this is modesty and humility? The rich world has a poor conscience, and many people liked to alleviate their own unease by sending money to a woman who seemed like an activist for "the poorest of the poor." People do not like to admit that they have been gulled or conned, so a vested interest in the myth was permitted to arise, and a lazy media never bothered to ask any follow-up questions. Many volunteers who went to Calcutta came back abruptly disillusioned by the stern ideology and poverty-loving practice of the "Missionaries of Charity," but they had no audience for their story. George Orwell's admonition in his essay on Gandhi—that saints should always be presumed guilty until proved innocent—was drowned in a Niagara of soft-hearted, soft-headed, and uninquiring propaganda.
One of the curses of India, as of other poor countries, is the quack medicine man, who fleeces the sufferer by promises of miraculous healing. Sunday was a great day for these parasites, who saw their crummy methods endorsed by his holiness and given a more or less free ride in the international press. Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. More than that, we witnessed the elevation and consecration of extreme dogmatism, blinkered faith, and the cult of a mediocre human personality. Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Mother-Teresa-saint-of-the-media-controversial-study-says/articleshow/18760028.cms?referral=PM
According to the study, the Vatican overlooked the crucial human side of Teresa — her dubious way of caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it.
....
According to the study, the doctors observed a significant lack of hygiene, even unfit conditions and a shortage of actual care, food and painkillers. They say that the problem was not a paucity of funds as the Order of the Missionaries of Charity successfully raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Researchers said that when it came to her own treatment, "she received it in a modern American hospital".
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Researchers Serge Larivee and Genevieve Chenard from the University of Montreal's department of psychoeducation, and Carole Senechal of the University of Ottawa's faculty of education, analysed published writings about Mother Teresa and concluded that her hallowed image, "which does not stand up to analysis of the facts, was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media campaign".
Essay by Hitchens on MT
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html
MT was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan. Where did that money, and all the other donations, go? The primitive hospice in Calcutta was as run down when she died as it always had been—she preferred California clinics when she got sick herself—and her order always refused to publish any audit. But we have her own claim that she opened 500 convents in more than a hundred countries, all bearing the name of her own order. Excuse me, but this is modesty and humility? The rich world has a poor conscience, and many people liked to alleviate their own unease by sending money to a woman who seemed like an activist for "the poorest of the poor." People do not like to admit that they have been gulled or conned, so a vested interest in the myth was permitted to arise, and a lazy media never bothered to ask any follow-up questions. Many volunteers who went to Calcutta came back abruptly disillusioned by the stern ideology and poverty-loving practice of the "Missionaries of Charity," but they had no audience for their story. George Orwell's admonition in his essay on Gandhi—that saints should always be presumed guilty until proved innocent—was drowned in a Niagara of soft-hearted, soft-headed, and uninquiring propaganda.
One of the curses of India, as of other poor countries, is the quack medicine man, who fleeces the sufferer by promises of miraculous healing. Sunday was a great day for these parasites, who saw their crummy methods endorsed by his holiness and given a more or less free ride in the international press. Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. More than that, we witnessed the elevation and consecration of extreme dogmatism, blinkered faith, and the cult of a mediocre human personality. Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.
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BeeAndButterfly;595568Should not speak ill of the dead but since we are bringing it up. I thought left-libs were all into facts and empirical evidence and not under the blind sway of leaders :). Also that they were all for freedom of speech.
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There should a separate thread on Mother Teresa. If not, perhaps the admins could create it and move the posts there.
I don't have much of an idea on this person. I once happened on a petite person who breezed past me at the airport with a few towing behind, almost running to catch up with that person.
I wonder if her main purpose was to convert. If so, the easiest ones would have been the infants and children who were left at her institutions' doors. Haven't read if they were converted. If so, perhaps it would confirm her main purpose.
I have read her letters (I think it was published in some magazine) and she sounded like a confused soul.
I remember commenting something earlier on MT: http://www.r2iclubforums.com/forums/showthread.php/18825-Sanal-Edamaruku-on-Mother-Theresa?p=288618#post288618
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Why MT had so much love for India? why not poor of South America and Africa?
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Lakshya;595597Why MT had so much love for India? why not poor of South America and Africa?
Oxygen for missionaries and teesta type NGOs is foreign donations. and donors need to me motivated to open their purses. MT's target donor was west while Teesta's is middle east. MT's sales pitch : You can donate to help poor desolate people and get them to walk into jesus path as bonus. Bonus is missing for donors in South america and Africa as some one else already sold bible there.
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Dont know much about MT, but I wonder how in those 152 countries (and growing) where AOL has a presence, view them.
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Lakshya;595597Why MT had so much love for India? why not poor of South America and Africa?
:) Standard procedure of BJP. diversion. Did you ever ask why RSS has so much fascination to see men in Khakhi chaddis, are they gay? :)