[email protected] wrote, [on 10/9/2009 11:51 PM]: > Aplogies for top post, could please eluidate ur line of reasoning
There's many places you can find screeds detailing her sins both real and imagined, such as Christopher Hitchens' book, _The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice_ [1] or Michael Parenti's article [2] which includes a further reading list at the end. Speaking for myself: I don't care whether she and her minions perform[ed] religious conversions. I am more amused than anything else by the accusations of financial skullduggery (of *course* there is hanky-panky there. What is so surprising about it? Just look at all other 'godmen'.) I find the association with fine, upstanding world statesmen like Haitian dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier icky, but not otherwise worthy of the kind of bile I spewed earlier. The one single thing that (for me) pushes her beyond the pale is this: her virulent opposition, in both word and deed, to birth control - to some of the most desperately poor people in the world. Uncounted hundreds (or thousands) of people exist in utter misery today who owe their being and state directly to her words and deeds. I consider this truly *evil*, and believe that her net contribution to the world is a significant increase in the sum of misery in it. Udhay [1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/185984054X [2] http://www.michaelparenti.org/motherteresa.html -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
