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Mother Teresa is likely to be a good example as long as you believe she thought she was doing gods work and agree that the details of how she did that are repre
by the_lonely_road 5y ago
Mother Teresa is likely to be a good example as long as you believe she thought she was doing gods work and agree that the details of how she did that are reprehensible.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoWhat is reprehensible about how she did what she did?
- _jal 5y agoAs with most things, Wikipedia will get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa A relevant quote from there summarizing some of them: "caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, ... her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce".
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoHer "overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce" are, I suspect, orthodox Catholic doctrine. As for the rest, critics criticize. She sure wasn't using the money she received to get personally rich. She was working with/caring for people that nobody else was. While less than perfect, I'm not seeing "reprehensible" anywhere in the substance of the criticism. (Read the "Responses to criticism" section of that article for a decent explanation of why most of the criticism is completely missing the point.)
- coliveira 5y agoThis is not the main point of the criticism. The issue is that she raised millions in money that was not used for her cause of taking care of suffering people in India. Instead, the bulk of the money was sent to religious causes and to the Vatican.