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Atheist Group Blasts Postal Service for Mother Teresa Stamp
FoxNews.com ^ | January 28, 2010 | Diane Macedo

Posted on 01/28/2010 11:02:50 AM PST by ColdOne

An atheist organization is blasting the U.S. Postal Service for its plan to honor Mother Teresa with a commemorative stamp, saying it violates postal regulations against honoring "individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings."

The Freedom from Religion Foundation is urging its supporters to boycott the stamp -- and also to engage in a letter-writing campaign to spread the word about what it calls the "darker side" of Mother Teresa.

The stamp -- set to be released on Aug. 26, which would have been Mother Teresa's 100th birthday -- will recognize the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner for her humanitarian work, the Postal Service announced last month.

"Noted for her compassion toward the poor and suffering, Mother Teresa, a diminutive Roman Catholic nun and honorary U.S. citizen, served the sick and destitute of India and the world for nearly 50 years," the Postal Service said in a press release. "Her humility and compassion, as well as her respect for the innate worth and dignity of humankind, inspired people of all ages and backgrounds to work on behalf of the world’s poorest populations."

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KEYWORDS: atheism; atheists; liberalfascism; moralabsolutes; motherteresa; postal; stamps; usps
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1 posted on 01/28/2010 11:02:51 AM PST by ColdOne
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2 posted on 01/28/2010 11:03:53 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Screw them. Is someone holding a gun to their head, demanding they buy these particular stamps? Ridiculous.

“I know God won’t give me more than I can handle, I just wish He didn’t trust me so much!” ~ Mother Teresa

(I have a plaque stating that at work. It keeps me focused and makes me laugh when things are going nuts.)


3 posted on 01/28/2010 11:07:06 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: ColdOne

I bet these “atheist” groups would never protest a Malcolm X stamp, a Mohammed stamp, a Buddha stamp, or some other figure of another religion....

Most of these “atheists” are really just Anti-Christian.


4 posted on 01/28/2010 11:07:27 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (National Security begins at the Border)
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To: ColdOne; All

“The Freedom from Religion Foundation is urging its supporters to boycott the stamp — and also to engage in a letter-writing campaign to spread the word about what it calls the “darker side” of Mother Teresa.”

What is the “darker side” of Mother Teresa?


5 posted on 01/28/2010 11:10:17 AM PST by paterfamilias
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To: ColdOne

Didn’t she win a Nobel Peace Prize? Surely that is enough of a secular award to refute their arguments.


6 posted on 01/28/2010 11:11:17 AM PST by married21
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“and also to engage in a letter-writing campaign to spread the word about what it calls the “darker side” of Mother Teresa. “

Horrors... A flawed human who strove for a higher ideal...

I find I have developed a strong distaste for militant atheists.

7 posted on 01/28/2010 11:11:53 AM PST by El Sordo
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To: ColdOne

The Stalinist impulse of the Left to censor, on full display.


8 posted on 01/28/2010 11:13:18 AM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: ColdOne

What regulation? Besides, wouldn’t it be more of a violation of the First Amendment to exclude people for anything specifically because of religious reasons? I have problems with Mother Theresa, but nobody can honestly deny the overall good she did.


9 posted on 01/28/2010 11:21:34 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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They are correct about the regulation, but probably wrong about the interpretation...

Click here to go to USPS stamp regs.
10 posted on 01/28/2010 11:31:52 AM PST by magritte ("I will give this monkey for lunch to Mr Sata,")
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To: ColdOne

Many of those honored on postage stamps could have been accused of being honored for “religious undertakings.”

Albert Schweitzer leaps to mind. I am sure there are many others.

I guess Am. Ath. thinks no nuns or priests or missionaries or anyone with a clerical collar or garb can be honored?


11 posted on 01/28/2010 11:32:02 AM PST by Persevero
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“What is the “darker side” of Mother Teresa?”

She dared to have human failings. Can you believe it?

12 posted on 01/28/2010 11:32:46 AM PST by El Sordo
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To: magritte
Stamps or stationery items shall not be issued to honor religious institutions or individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings or beliefs.

Thanks for the link, so there's the reg. On the surface it seems they're right, but I don't think so. Her principal achievement may have been religious to her, but it had a real, non-religious effect on the world. If you use their interpretation you'd have to eliminate stamps for the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr., and any other person who made real-world contributions based on religious conviction.

13 posted on 01/28/2010 11:44:04 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: ColdOne

So, then, a lifelong exhibition of human compassion is an achievement attainable only by religious people??

That’s the core of the argument these atheist idiots are implicitly making; that human efforts on behalf of the poor and downtrodden must necessarily emanate from religious faith.

They shame themselves.

Worse, they tip their hand to reveal their deep doubts as to their own professed atheism. The settled atheist is not threatened by postage stamps honoring great humanitarians, whether they be people of faith, or not.

Truly there are few aside from this crowd more well-deserving the epithet “damned fools”.


14 posted on 01/28/2010 11:45:37 AM PST by HKMk23 (Jesus loves me, this I know, and He IS coming; sooner than you can possibly imagine!)
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To: antiRepublicrat

Problems with Mother Theresa? Care to elaborate?


15 posted on 01/28/2010 11:45:56 AM PST by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: paterfamilias
What is the “darker side” of Mother Teresa?

Nobody's perfect. It's not like she was a saint. Oh, wait, they're going for that...

16 posted on 01/28/2010 11:46:00 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

“Most of these “atheists” are really just Anti-Christian.”

That is correct. They don’t harass and demean anyone else’s religion. Just ours. That is because there are too many of us to control. They have to use the machine of government to supress us.

I hope it turns around on them tenfold.


17 posted on 01/28/2010 11:47:01 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: HKMk23

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+14:1&version=NIV


18 posted on 01/28/2010 11:51:20 AM PST by ConservaLiv
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Pingout today.


19 posted on 01/28/2010 11:56:39 AM PST by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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To: ColdOne
boycott the stamp

Oooh! THAT will show them!!

20 posted on 01/28/2010 11:58:28 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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