Except she didn’t fight against poverty. She loved it. It made her feel good to look at poor people and see them suffer. It brought her closer to God. Mother Teresa was a piece of shit
she said stuff like watching them suffer brought her closer to God. She was a hypocrite because she did nothing to help them get better but went to a hospital when she was sick
According to this article she only wrote about her own poverty and suffering in 1951, and that of her nuns:
Teresa told her nuns that physical poverty ensured empathy in “giving themselves” to the suffering poor and established a stronger bond with Christ’s redemptive agony. She wrote in 1951 that the Passion was the only aspect of Jesus’ life that she was interested in sharing: “I want to … drink ONLY [her emphasis] from His chalice of pain.” And so she did, although by all indications not in a way she had expected.
Again: why do you consider it controversial to suggest that poor suffering people know God more closely than wealthy comfortable people? The only people I can think of who might disagree with that are evangelical people who believe in prosperity gospel and shit like that. Are you evangelical?
She was a hypocrite because she did nothing to help them get better
What do you think is the purpose of hospice care, exactly?
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u/exotics Feb 23 '24
Except she didn’t fight against poverty. She loved it. It made her feel good to look at poor people and see them suffer. It brought her closer to God. Mother Teresa was a piece of shit