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result #56077 - WAS MOTHER TERESA A LIVING SAINT, OR A SELF-SERVING MONEY-GRUBBING PUBLICITY WHORE WHOSE SAINTLY IMAGE WAS MANUFACTURED BY THE CHURCH'S P.R. CAMPAIGN?

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ethics : WAS MOTHER TERESA A LIVING SAINT, OR A SELF-SERVING MONEY-GRUBBING PUBLICITY WHORE WHOSE SAINTLY IMAGE WAS MANUFACTURED BY THE CHURCH'S P.R. CAMPAIGN? [+] serious ballot by neal_anderthal created Fri Oct 22, 04 The Catholic Church has always needed saints, as a recruiting and fund-raising tool. And it needs them more desperately than ever with its current bankruptcies and scandals. That's why the Church has accelerated its saint-manufacturing procedure to now accomodate one Mother Teresa. Teresa raised perhaps a few hundred million dollars, ostensibly for the cause of helping the poor. Nobody knows how much money she raised, because she never allowed any audit of it[for obvious reasons]. What IS well known is that virtually none of that money went to the poor - while untold millions went into Teresa's coffers. Her "clinics" offered "medical care" to the dying that wavered between primitive and nonexistent. On those rare occasions when medicine was administered, old and dirty needles were used. Doctors or nurses were rarely present. And, notoriously, no pain-killers were offered, in accordance with Teresa's belief that suffering makes one more virtuous[like it did Jesus, get it?} Contrast that with the medical care Teresa lavished upon herself: when she needed heart surgery, she jetted around the world to get it from the very best and costliest hospitals. And she could damned well afford it! The whole "clinic" scam just was a transparent effort to get deathbed conversions to Catholicism, anyway. The main point is that not only did Teresa do nothing to alleviate suffering, she directly contributed to it with her fierce championing of the Church's draconian and medieval policy on birth control. More troubling is that she wasn't too choosy about where her money came from. Teresa lavishly praised such brutal dictators as the Duvaliers of Haiti and Enver Hoxha in her native Albania - provided they made generous cash contributions to her. An even more generous contributor was Charles Keating, imprisoned for stealing upwards of $1 billion in the Lincoln S&L scandal - millions of which ended up in Teresa's pocket. It is a bit of a mystery to me why Teresa wasn't also sent to prison for accepting money she KNEW to be stolen, since you or I would be sent there for doing so. This could fill a book, but the point is made. A slick and well-funded publicity campaign can take even an atrocious person and make her look saintly. And it Teresa's case, it did. She was somewhere in between 6 She was a living saint 4 She was a money-grubbing self-serving publicity whore 2 Ballot #56077: has 12 total votes. invite people to vote on this ballot! Comment: content @ BESTANDWORST.COM smile bank: email this ballot link to friends You can also reach this ballot at : http://BestAndWorst.com/key/Was_mother_teresa_a_living_saint,_or_a_self-serving_money-grubbing_publicity_whore_whose_saintly_image_was_manufactured_by_the_church\'s_p.r._campaign? similiar ballots: 116683. Is "the big duh" a good ad campaign for a car with an image problem? 71431. Do you think Pope John Paul II had a sexual relationship with Mother Teresa? 14597. HOWARD DEAN SUPPORTERS ONLY: Now that he has ruined his campaign, what do you wish you would have done with the money you donated to him? 39807. Monday Question: Would you rather do what you want to do for a living and be poor, or something you aren't suited for and make a lot of money? 27069. If Kerry wins the election, will you like living in a welfare country in which fat people are given money straight out of your paycheck? 71413. 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He said that that Keating stole the money which he gave to Mother Teresa and that she should return the money to Keating's victims, since that's what Jesus would do. Mother Teresa did not reply. by dinkytown on Fri Oct 22, 04 4:48pm [+] Mother F**king Theresa! How did this happen? by _Beelzebubba on Fri Oct 22, 04 5:00pm [+] And i thought that Mother Teresa was one of organised religions truly good people. Another illusion shattered. I feel a bit sad about it. Got any good reference sites on the subject? I would like to read up a bit! by quirk99 on Fri Oct 22, 04 6:18pm [+] Quirk99: Christopher Hitchens took the lead in digging up the dirt on Ma Teresa. He wrote a whole book on it entitled "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice". By Google-ing key words "christopher hitchens mother teresa" you will get a wealth of material. Hope this helps. by Neal_Anderthal on Fri Oct 22, 04 7:24pm [+] Cheers Neal! by quirk99 on Fri Oct 22, 04 7:36pm [+] John Kerry tossed my salad last night!!!! by xxxxxxxx on Sun Oct 24, 04 4:42pm [+]

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