From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Godt, Wahrheit und Amerika
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:09:08 +0000


Jud wrote:

>Some years ago - ten - fifteen - maybe twenty - time is relative to a 
>non-Dasein, there was a two-page
>spread in a British Sunday newspaper by a British Catholic Volunteer Nurse 
>who had been on Mother Teresa's staff
>in India.  This nurse exposed the woman in a dramatic article, and said 
>that she obviously 'got off' on the dying of  these poor souls,
>and that a funny expression came over her face and  her lips became moist 
>in a most weird [almost sexual] way in the presence of death.  That apart, 
>the reason she left was that MT in spite of the millions of pounds she 
>received in donations, deliberately withheld the provision of pain-killing 
>drugs from the dying in spite of the protestations of the
>assistants, saying that it was 'God's Will' , etc., and even on occasions 
>withheld drugs
>from those whose lives could have been saved from their use.

I read this a long time ago. The best response to this was articulated by 
Christopher Hitchens himself (Free Inquiry Magazine, vol. 16, No. 4), who is 
hardly a friend of Mother Theresa:

=================HITCHENS: I hesitated to cover this in my book, but I decided I had to 
publish that she has said that the suffering of the poor is something very 
beautiful and the world is being very much helped by the nobility of this 
example of misery and suffering.

FI: A horrible thing to say.

HITCHENS: Yes, evil in fact. To say it was unChristian unfortunately would 
not be true, although many people don't realize that is what Christians 
believe. It is a positively immoral remark in my opinion, and it should be 
more widely known than it is.
It wasn't so much that it showed that her facilities weren't any good, but 
it showed that they weren't medical facilities at all. There wasn't any 
place she runs that she could go; as far as I know, their point isn't 
treatment. And in fairness to her, she has never really claimed that 
treatment is the point. Although she does accept donations from people who 
have fooled themselves into thinking so, I haven't found any occasion where 
she has given a false impression of her work.
=================
Anthony Crifasi

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