Mother Teresa
Despite the urge to convey my very genuine irritation of religion as a whole within our society, be it the accountability it seems to feel it has for our innate moral integrities or the constant attempt to limit the scrupulous scientific enquiries we wish to conduct to advance as a civilised community, I wish to portray the true image of the one they call, (and with much audacity I might add), Mother Teresa. A woman that has earned herself 124 prizes in the name of peace, as well as the Nobel Peace Prize 1979. This is astonishing.
Ironic as it is that Mother Teresa masks her real name, which remains Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhui, it is important that I first allow you to understand my contempt for such a woman, a powerful figurehead constructed by the Catholic Church. This is someone whom we idolise, applaud and believe in, someone whom we look up to, with respect to the ‘great charitable work’ she has dedicated her entire life to - a noble cause. It is the fact that we rely on such people to designate consciousness and meaning, particularly posthumously in this case, that make me personally, feel robbed and rather foolish when I too, once looked up to this superficial construct of the Catholic Church in a positive light. Mother Teresa is not what she appears.
Mother Teresa was a cruel and cynical woman. Known for her home for the sick in Calcutta, India, I stress that this was very far from a hospital, but walls entrapping victims who would suffer and die under the ruling of the Catholic Church. This home being the pinnacle of welfare offered by Mother Teresa, victims hung in string hammocks, with just a communal toilet between them, which offered no privacy, strictly separated indefinitely from families and friends under orders of the Church. Why I ask, do we celebrate and award such cruelty? Whilst many would rely on the idea that Mother Teresa founded more than 500 hospices and hospitals, I again urge those of you who believe this to reconsider the facts. These so called ‘hospices’ were never really hospices, but ‘’Missionaries of Charity” as well as nunneries or brother homes, built in part, using money donated in faith to be used to help the poor. It becomes additionally outrageous, when we learn that much of her wealth (thought to be a combined total of 50 million dollars), originated from money given to her by the callous Duvalier family, who raped and pillaged the Haitian countryside, the very Haitians that she was supposedly helping. Please do not be fooled, as to think that this is a Robin Hood scenario either, whereby we can glamorise the robbing of the rich to give to the poor. Money wilfully accepted by such terrorising murderers was never again seen, within the Haitian community in any form of aid, but instead Mother Teresa went on to nobly endorse terror by the Duvalier family. Mother Teresa claimed that the “Duvaliers loved the poor”, “the poor loved them” and that ‘’it was a beautiful lesson for me’’ with pictures of her shaking hands with such evil people, in newspapers around the world. If this is not treacherous and deplorable, I would encourage someone to show me something that is.
After Stealing money from the Haitians, the very people she swore to protect, I would at least gain some satisfaction in knowing where the vast sums of money were spent – especially when additionally considering the 1 million dollars she took from Charles Keating who caused 21000 people to lose life savings through corruption and deceit in the American Loan scandal of the 1980s.However, my eagerness to understand where such money vanished is futile, when I learn, unsurprisingly, that ‘’Missionaries for Charity’’ is the only Indian Charitable organisation which do not publish its accounts for the public to obtain. Instead this money is kept hidden, within the confines of the Vatican bank. This is daylight robbery.
Despite such dreadful and unpardonable physical offenses to people, it is in fact nothing mentioned above that provokes me to write with such contempt, though admittedly it does much to contribute. Such an obsession with suffering, instead, must take precedence above Mother Teresa’s many, many sins (and I do use that word strictly for the irony). It is the endorsement for the suffering of helpless, dying victims, justified by the promise of coming closer to Jesus by doing so, that not only cements my view that religion poisons the very innate, humane reasoning that we were born with, but that Mother Teresa does not know the meaning, nor any value for love. I still await a valid reason as to why she was awarded the Nobel Peace prize and not sent to prison.
Whilst Catholic figureheads, like Mother Teresa, spent their lives endorsing the subversion of human emotion, millions died, millions were made more sick, and many, many, many, more millions were made more ignorant to the true evils that arise from such organisations. Though she remains little more but a symbolic manifestation of Catholic ideals to the Catholic Church - which in equal, rather evil fashion, continues to fight against abortion and still states that contraceptives make worse the issue of AIDS - I feel it is imperative to bring the story of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhui to people's attention. Only when we stop awarding such callous, cruel, murderous feats, will we begin to stop surrendering the very ideals that allow us to love and allow us to act in a humane fashion. These I argue , are not to be found by following teachings of a supreme deity or religious figure heads. These ideals can be found within an innate morality that each of us are born with, independent of religion or race. And without a doubt, such ideals remain far from those endorsed, by the deceiving, corrupt and wicked construction, that we know to be Mother Teresa.
Ironic as it is that Mother Teresa masks her real name, which remains Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhui, it is important that I first allow you to understand my contempt for such a woman, a powerful figurehead constructed by the Catholic Church. This is someone whom we idolise, applaud and believe in, someone whom we look up to, with respect to the ‘great charitable work’ she has dedicated her entire life to - a noble cause. It is the fact that we rely on such people to designate consciousness and meaning, particularly posthumously in this case, that make me personally, feel robbed and rather foolish when I too, once looked up to this superficial construct of the Catholic Church in a positive light. Mother Teresa is not what she appears.
Mother Teresa was a cruel and cynical woman. Known for her home for the sick in Calcutta, India, I stress that this was very far from a hospital, but walls entrapping victims who would suffer and die under the ruling of the Catholic Church. This home being the pinnacle of welfare offered by Mother Teresa, victims hung in string hammocks, with just a communal toilet between them, which offered no privacy, strictly separated indefinitely from families and friends under orders of the Church. Why I ask, do we celebrate and award such cruelty? Whilst many would rely on the idea that Mother Teresa founded more than 500 hospices and hospitals, I again urge those of you who believe this to reconsider the facts. These so called ‘hospices’ were never really hospices, but ‘’Missionaries of Charity” as well as nunneries or brother homes, built in part, using money donated in faith to be used to help the poor. It becomes additionally outrageous, when we learn that much of her wealth (thought to be a combined total of 50 million dollars), originated from money given to her by the callous Duvalier family, who raped and pillaged the Haitian countryside, the very Haitians that she was supposedly helping. Please do not be fooled, as to think that this is a Robin Hood scenario either, whereby we can glamorise the robbing of the rich to give to the poor. Money wilfully accepted by such terrorising murderers was never again seen, within the Haitian community in any form of aid, but instead Mother Teresa went on to nobly endorse terror by the Duvalier family. Mother Teresa claimed that the “Duvaliers loved the poor”, “the poor loved them” and that ‘’it was a beautiful lesson for me’’ with pictures of her shaking hands with such evil people, in newspapers around the world. If this is not treacherous and deplorable, I would encourage someone to show me something that is.
After Stealing money from the Haitians, the very people she swore to protect, I would at least gain some satisfaction in knowing where the vast sums of money were spent – especially when additionally considering the 1 million dollars she took from Charles Keating who caused 21000 people to lose life savings through corruption and deceit in the American Loan scandal of the 1980s.However, my eagerness to understand where such money vanished is futile, when I learn, unsurprisingly, that ‘’Missionaries for Charity’’ is the only Indian Charitable organisation which do not publish its accounts for the public to obtain. Instead this money is kept hidden, within the confines of the Vatican bank. This is daylight robbery.
Despite such dreadful and unpardonable physical offenses to people, it is in fact nothing mentioned above that provokes me to write with such contempt, though admittedly it does much to contribute. Such an obsession with suffering, instead, must take precedence above Mother Teresa’s many, many sins (and I do use that word strictly for the irony). It is the endorsement for the suffering of helpless, dying victims, justified by the promise of coming closer to Jesus by doing so, that not only cements my view that religion poisons the very innate, humane reasoning that we were born with, but that Mother Teresa does not know the meaning, nor any value for love. I still await a valid reason as to why she was awarded the Nobel Peace prize and not sent to prison.
Whilst Catholic figureheads, like Mother Teresa, spent their lives endorsing the subversion of human emotion, millions died, millions were made more sick, and many, many, many, more millions were made more ignorant to the true evils that arise from such organisations. Though she remains little more but a symbolic manifestation of Catholic ideals to the Catholic Church - which in equal, rather evil fashion, continues to fight against abortion and still states that contraceptives make worse the issue of AIDS - I feel it is imperative to bring the story of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhui to people's attention. Only when we stop awarding such callous, cruel, murderous feats, will we begin to stop surrendering the very ideals that allow us to love and allow us to act in a humane fashion. These I argue , are not to be found by following teachings of a supreme deity or religious figure heads. These ideals can be found within an innate morality that each of us are born with, independent of religion or race. And without a doubt, such ideals remain far from those endorsed, by the deceiving, corrupt and wicked construction, that we know to be Mother Teresa.
