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I've been reflecting on some of Mother Teresa's compassionate acts throughout her life while working on a project.

What an inspiration and beacon of hope and freedom for the world's youth to emulate. Her depth of wisdom and insight into human nature should never be over-looked. Brilliant leader. Compassionate human being. Lover of mankind.

halfway;1416797 wrote: I've been reflecting on some of Mother Teresa's compassionate acts throughout her life while working on a project.Did you mean to say that as you were working on a project you began to reflect on some of Mother Teresa's compassionate acts? Just asking.

Compassionate my arse. She was a dreadfully cruel woman. She raised millions of pounds in the name of Christianity but spent little of it on the poor or dying.

She added tremendous value to the programs she created and got involved with.

She embraced her faith and genuinely seemed to want to leave the world a better place. How can a person not agree with that type of commitment and love for their fellow human beings?

She was a witch in many ways. sister Teresa wrote: "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."

Found this article by Susan Shields, a former insider to Mother Teresa's evil doings. It's called: Mother Teresa's House of Illusions

How She Harmed Her Helpers As Well As Those They 'Helped'

by Susan Shields

Some years after I became a Catholic, I joined Mother Teresa's congregation, the Missionaries of Charity. I was one of her sisters for nine and a half years, living in the Bronx, Rome, and San Francisco, until I became disillusioned and left in May 1989. As I reentered the world, I slowly began to unravel the tangle of lies in which I had lived. I wondered how I could have believed them for so long.

Three of Mother Teresa's teachings that are fundamental to her religious congregation are all the more dangerous because they are believed so sincerely by her sisters. Most basic is the belief that as long as a sister obeys she is doing God's will. Another is the belief that the sisters have leverage over God by choosing to suffer. Their suffering makes God very happy. He then dispenses more graces to humanity. The third is the belief that any attachment to human beings, even the poor being served, supposedly interferes with love of God and must be vigilantly avoided or immediately uprooted. The efforts to prevent any attachments cause continual chaos and confusion, movement and change in the congregation. Mother Teresa did not invent these beliefs - they were prevalent in religious congregations before Vatican II - but she did everything in her power (which was great) to enforce them.

Once a sister has accepted these fallacies she will do almost anything. She can allow her health to be destroyed, neglect those she vowed to serve, and switch off her feelings and independent thought. She can turn a blind eye to suffering, inform on her fellow sisters, tell lies with ease, and ignore public laws and regulations.


"Mother Teresa's House of Illusions" by Shields, Susan - Free Inquiry, Vol. 18, Issue 1, Winter 1997 | Questia, Your Online Research Library

She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

And we all know the Nobel Peace Prize is a highly scrutinized award only given to the very most deserving through their earned accomplishments.

Why would they give it to a bad person Snowfire?

halfway;1416925 wrote: She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

And we all know the Nobel Peace Prize is a highly scrutinized award only given to the very most deserving through their earned accomplishments.

Why would they give it to a bad person Snowfire?


The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 - Press Release

I'm not saying Obama's a bad person but do you really believe he deserved the award?

There was a thread here a while back addressing Mother Theresa and her workings. It was a real eye opener. I looked for it yesterday after this thread was started but never found it. I will see if I can find it today when I get some time.

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SnoozeAgain;1416930 wrote: The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 - Press Release

I'm not saying Obama's a bad person but do you really believe he deserved the award?


Well, the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize would be in question would it not?

halfway;1416941 wrote: Well, the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize would be in question would it not?
It's subjective.

AnneBoleyn;1416952 wrote: It's subjective.


So does that render it as a non-credible award and based solely on political connections?

halfway;1416953 wrote: So does that render it as a non-credible award and based solely on political connections?


Not entirely no, but it is a beauty contest. I appreciate the awards for science more. I don't object to the peace award, I just don't hold it in as high esteem.

AnneBoleyn;1416964 wrote: Not entirely no, but it is a beauty contest. I appreciate the awards for science more. I don't object to the peace award, I just don't hold it in as high esteem.


Ahhh....so it is only to be taken selectively.

The science awards are not political? The entire science field fights for grant money daily and that is entirely political. Especially at the global / UN level. Follow the money and you will see the agendas.

Thanks Anne! Keep your head.

halfway;1417285 wrote: Ahhh....so it is only to be taken selectively.

The science awards are not political? The entire science field fights for grant money daily and that is entirely political. Especially at the global / UN level. Follow the money and you will see the agendas.

Thanks Anne! Keep your head.


You can't keep politics out of anything it seems. But I follow the science too, & much good work has been rewarded.

I want to keep my head. I like to wear hats.

AnneBoleyn;1417295 wrote: You can't keep politics out of anything it seems. But I follow the science too, & much good work has been rewarded.

I want to keep my head. I like to wear hats.
Human politics is not always partisan politics. Power and money as motivators for society will never be ground out of our nature. Where the rewards are highest, the potential for corruption is the greatest.

One can become quite wealthy with the right connections in science.

And I agree, good work has been rewarded. Just as "junk science: has been rewarded only to be destroyed after the fact. No system is perfect, but some are flawed more than others.

I recommend a neck-gator.

Looked up neck-gaitor. Thanks but I don't feel it's any protection against a sword.

AnneBoleyn;1417303 wrote: Looked up neck-gaitor. Thanks but I don't feel it's any protection against a sword.


Ban swords? And use a chain-mail gator.

Chain mail gaitor? Excellent idea my good sir. But to ban swords? How would I slice up the wild boar?