Mother Teresa was not a saint!

Thing is, you could tear into the life and character of virtually everyone.

edgarblythe wrote:

Thing is, you could tear into the life and character of virtually everyone.

True, but there are some particularly nasty skeletons in MT's closet. She was into quantity, not quality care, most of her shelters afforded people little more than a space on the floor. She liked to cosy up to odious dictators like Baby Doc Duvalier and she thought the twin evils facing the World today were abortion, and birth control.

Overall I think she was quite repulsive.

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Hitchens was satisfactorily debunked regarding Sr Teresa.

In 1991, Robin Fox, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and described the medical care the patients received as "haphazard". He observed that sisters and volunteers, some of whom had no medical knowledge, had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors in the hospice. Fox specifically held Teresa responsible for conditions in this home, and observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment.

Fox conceded that the regimen he observed included cleanliness, the tending of wounds and sores, and kindness, but he noted that the sisters' approach to managing pain was "disturbingly lacking". The formulary at the facility Fox visited lacked strong analgesics which he felt clearly separated Mother Teresa's approach from the hospice movement. Fox also wrote that needles were rinsed with warm water, which left them inadequately sterilised, and the facility did not isolate patients with tuberculosis. There have been a series of other reports documenting inattention to medical care in the order's facilities. Similar points of view have also been expressed by some former volunteers who worked for Teresa's order. Mother Teresa herself referred to the facilities as "Houses of the Dying".

In 2013, in a comprehensive review covering 96% of the literature on Mother Teresa, a group of Université de Montréal academics reinforced the foregoing criticism, detailing, among other issues, the missionary's practice of "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". Questioning the Vatican's motivations for ignoring the mass of criticism, the study concluded that Mother Teresa's "hallowed image—which does not stand up to analysis of the facts—was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign" engineered by the Catholic convert and anti-abortion BBC journalist Malcolm Muggeridge.

Im ab atheist

Sometimes we atheists go way too far by disposing of facts and evidence.

Mother Teresa was not a saint! She helped people die, not treat them to live or free them from poverty.

You get very upset when other people don't post links to back up their claims. I've only found stuff reinforcing Hitchens' claims.