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I've heard much of that but I tend to disagree. I think her take on life and suffering was similar to others that have extreme hardship. Like this quote from A
by xupybd 4y ago
I've heard much of that but I tend to disagree.
I think her take on life and suffering was similar to others that have extreme hardship. Like this quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about his time in the Gulag
It was granted to me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good.
In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel.
In the surfeit of power I was a murderer and an oppressor.
In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments.
It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. . . .
That is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me:
“Bless you, prison!”
I . . . have served enough time there.
I nourished my soul there, and I say without hesitation: “Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Volume 2, pp. 615-617.
- plorg 4y agoSolzhenitsyn can find the value in his suffering, but most people would not accept the argument that Stalin was good for causing it. Similarly, it can be fine for Theresa to have found value in her own suffering, but it's a wholly different question whether she allowed people under her care to suffer unnecessarily because she thought that would glorify God.
- xupybd 4y agoIf she did allow people to suffer with that purpose then yes I agree. It's my understanding that she didn't do that but did view the effects of suffering as a blessing in the same way that the above quote suggests.
- devwastaken 4y agoTeresa made millions for personal gain while their institutions were reusing needles, had no medical training, and were essentially torturing sick people.