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Why the Left Hates Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Breitbard ^ | 3 Sep 16 | THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D

Posted on 09/03/2016 8:16:05 AM PDT by xzins

As the world awaits Mother Teresa’s canonization Sunday, one mystery remains: why the international Left still harbors such hatred for a diminutive religious sister who spent her entire life serving the poorest of the poor.

After all, with her inexhaustible dedication to alleviating poverty and assisting the needy, Mother Teresa should be an icon of liberals the world over. Instead, we find that the Left showers her not with affection and praise, but with scorn and disdain.

On September 1, The Washington Post published an article titled “Why Mother Teresa Is Still No Saint to Many of Her Critics,” citing harsh condemnations of the nun by Hindu nationalists and cataloguing the complaints lodged against the missionary’s work through the decades.

Earlier this year, Salon called Mother Teresa “repugnant,” accusing her of glorifying suffering instead of relieving it. “Judged by any metric of medical standards,” the piece stated, “it is difficult to remember her legacy as anything other than an inefficient, sanctimonious and wholly ideological franchise.”

Last weekend, The New York Times showcased “one of the most vocal critics” of Mother Teresa, an Indian physician named Aroup Chatterjee who has made a career out of casting aspersions on the work of the Albanian nun.

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Ministry/Outreach
KEYWORDS: liberalism; motherteresa
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1 posted on 09/03/2016 8:16:06 AM PDT by xzins
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The only good explanation for the leftists hate is that the good done by Mother Teresa wasn’t done in the name of atheist socialism.


2 posted on 09/03/2016 8:16:22 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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3 posted on 09/03/2016 8:17:30 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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The Left hates everything good and decent. Why should not they hate Mother Teresa, and us?


4 posted on 09/03/2016 8:18:12 AM PDT by sport
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5 posted on 09/03/2016 8:18:26 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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All donations to Teresa went to Vatican and poor remain poor and Clergy remain Rich.


6 posted on 09/03/2016 8:18:34 AM PDT by jennychase
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To: xzins

Why?

Because a devout Christian looks and acts like Mother Theresa and a devout muslim looks and acts like Osama bin Laden or Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi


7 posted on 09/03/2016 8:19:03 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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Anyone who would not love this fine example of women, are totally communistic...they have no belief in God, they have no belief in helping others for just their time, are selfish, they have no understanding of the ‘Golden Rule’ or the ‘Ten Commandments’....and they certainly do not believe in God...
8 posted on 09/03/2016 8:19:16 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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Speaking of the lunatic far left, Obama's former Communications Director, Anita Dunn, claimed MT was one of her role models. Her along with Mao tse Tung.

Here she is praising mass-murderer Mao Tse Tung and his communist revolution before an audience of graduating ** high-schoolers**!("St. Andrews Episcopal school at the Washington National Cathedral"). A video link is provided at the end of this post.

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Anita Dunn: "The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is: You're going to make choices. ... But here's the deal: These are your choices; they are no one else's.

"In 1947, when Mao Tse Tung was being challenged within his own party on his own plan to basically take China over, Chiang Kai-Shek and the nationalist Chinese held the cities, they had the army. ... They had everything on their side. And people said 'How can you win? How can you do this against all of the odds against you?'

"And Mao Tse Tung says, 'You fight your war and I'll fight mine.' You don't have to accept the definition of how to do things. ... You fight your war, you let them fight theirs. Everybody has their own path."..."
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Policies implemented under Mao Tse Tung, including the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and persecution in Tibet, among other policies, led to death of an estimated 65 million people, according to The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press), which is considered by scholars as one of the best sources on communist atrocities.

Mao also outlawed religion and sent at least 2.5 million people to "re-education camps," called "laogai," which were similar to the slave-labor camps in the Gulag of the Soviet Union. An estimated 1,000 laogai reportedly are still in operation today

http://web.archive.org/web/20100211203755/http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55665
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Beck Plays Explosive Video of WH Communications Director (Anita Dunn) Praising Mao (and his revolution):
http://web.archive.org/web/20100309181247/http://www.breitbart.tv/beck-plays-explosive-video-of-wh-communications-director-praising-mao

9 posted on 09/03/2016 8:20:13 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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Just not factual.

She performed her ministry with financial resources from someplace.


10 posted on 09/03/2016 8:20:54 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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Source for your statement. I have read a book about Mother Teresa and no such accusation was made in it.


11 posted on 09/03/2016 8:22:18 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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The left is so evil, they cannot understand anyone actually helping the poor! They would have horded that money for themselves (like the Clinton foundation)


12 posted on 09/03/2016 8:23:38 AM PDT by NewCenturions
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Which clergy became rich by donations to Mother Teresa?


13 posted on 09/03/2016 8:27:35 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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All donations to Teresa went to Vatican and poor remain poor and Clergy remain Rich.

Completely made up, and spiced up with a hateful anti-Catholic aside as well. Typical.

14 posted on 09/03/2016 8:28:13 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Trump is to the political class what Uber is to taxicab companies)
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To: jennychase

Most clergy I know wear thread bare cassocks.

The beauty found in the Liturgy is for a King.

..”and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace.”


15 posted on 09/03/2016 8:28:33 AM PDT by blackpacific
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To: xzins

If you want adoration from the left, you have to be pro abortion. Simple as that.


16 posted on 09/03/2016 8:29:06 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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who have finally decided that we are going to take control of our bodies, our children, and our destiny

signs of evil:

-hatred of the good for being the good
-use of force to do harm to innocents
-pride in committing evil

17 posted on 09/03/2016 8:31:03 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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“We never try to convert those whom we receive to Christianity,” she said, “but in our work we bear witness to the love of God’s presence,

Now compare that to muslims...

18 posted on 09/03/2016 8:31:28 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: MNDude

Vatican , how hey paid sexual abused cases ?????


19 posted on 09/03/2016 8:32:19 AM PDT by jennychase
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To: NewCenturions

Mother Teresa came to the U.S. Was invited to speak by
Bill clintoooon she took the chance to admonish the culture of
Death ( the demonic leftists here) and said she would take
ALL of our unborn children— rather than see them aborted!!!

That started the war of the MSM and communists to denounce
Mother Teresa and they have not stopped


20 posted on 09/03/2016 8:32:33 AM PDT by mj1234
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