HOPE ENDURES - A BOOK THAT EXPOSES MOTHER TERESA
Mother Teresa a nun was famed for her work among the poor in India. Yet she
admitted she put dogma before people when she defended Catholic teaching on
contraception which sought to prevent the poor planning their families. Her
charity was an anti-humanitarian blight. If God had wanted the poor abandoned
she would have done it. She would have justified this by saying God must have
better plans to help the poor. She also gave huge donations of cash to the pope
and hoarded millions in the bank. All that while many of her patients in
hospital had to be injected with the same syringe. She took the best medical
care possible for herself no matter how expensive it was, while children in her
care died and these deaths could have been averted if she had spared the money
for them.
EX NUN COLLETTE LIVERMORE TELLS US THE TRUTH
Mother Teresa of Calcutta now a saint is the person most people think about when they hear of charity and altruism. Christian mythmakers set to work for creating that image. But it is an illusion. Mother played along. She probably got some amusement out of the hatred vented against those who told the real truth.
According to Hope Endures by a former nun from Mother Teresa's order, The
Missionaries of Charity, Collete Livermore, the order though it had sufficient
money donated to it for the purpose of buying books to help with the medical
work this was not done (page 115). As a result, the health of the sisters was at
risk. The book explains how the nuns were not provided with medical advice, the
use of mosquito repellents, information about malaria and vaccinations (page
115). It attributes this to the idea that God would look after the nuns.
The book recounts how Colette, then called Sister Tobit, got into trouble with
the order for helping a man with dysentery who was in danger of dying (page
163). The order cared more about obedience than doing the right thing. Mother
Teresa declared according to page 168, that she recognised 1 Peter 2:18-23 as
being correct. This text ordered slaves to obey their masters even if they were
abusive and difficult. It said that it is great to be beaten for doing wrong
when one is innocent and that such patience pleases God. Peter also says that
this has to be the right attitude for Jesus gave us an example to follow. Mother
Teresa used this text to urge her nuns to obey superiors without question (page
168). Sister Tobit decided to leave the order. She didn't like the way she was
expected to let the poor suffer rather than disobey orders and she made that
clear to Mother Teresa (page 172). Mother Teresa was "not sympathetic" and told
Tobit that her feelings were sourced in temptation and pride (page 172). In
other words, Tobit was bad for seeing sense. Mother was judging her despite
forbidding Tobit to judge those who acted as dictators in the order over her
(page 224).
Later Colette recounted the tale of what happened in Manila when she tried to
help a sick boy called Alex. Sister Valerie who was in charge of her forbade her
to help him though Colette told her there was no reason why they couldn't.
Mother Teresa wouldn't let the nuns have a washing machine (page 194). This
forced the nuns to wash the underwear of the incontinent with brushes. The order
was more concerned about inflicting hardship on the nuns than on helping the
sick. A washing machine would have freed up their time to help people. Mother
was definitely misusing the funds so kindly donated to her from all over the
world. It was the struggle to help not the helping that mattered in her
Christian philosophy.
Sister Tobit applied for a dispensation from her vows (page 224) because she was
expected to do things like sending dying children away when commanded to do so
and because she was not allowed to have a mind of her own. She wrote that she
felt that "the order whose raison detre was to show compassion, chronically
failed to do so, both to its own members and to the poor." "The Society demanded
that I have no mind of my own and censored everything I read, a form of
brainwashing that almost turned me into an automaton". These quotes can be read
on page 224. On page 213 we read that Mother Teresa held that if an event
happened, it was either willed by God or allowed by him to happen. We read that
it led her to conclude that what the religious superior commands is either
willed by God or at least allowed by him to be made meaning the commands no
matter how silly or harsh they are are from God's authority. To disobey them is
to disobey God.
When Tobit came Colette again she began to suspect that the gospel commands
given by Christ to give to all who ask and thought that attempts to love
unconditionally and forgive unconditionally really made one a doormat (page
287).
The book proves that Mother Teresa cannot be called a good woman. It proves that
living the gospels properly is bad for you. The Missionaries of Charity
experienced the damaging power of the gospels and yet they lived their lives as
an example to those who they helped and those who knew them - ultimately to see
them take on the same torments. Some charity!
Just to add something to the Mother Teresa debate. The worst thing she ever did
was to hoard up millions while her nuns were forced to use the same syringe over
and over again on the patients. I have googled and there is no refutation of
that at all. We need hard evidence to refute such a terrible deed. The excuse
that Teresa and her nuns were doing all they could do under the circumstances is
just an excuse. There is no excuse for spreading disease that way. The believers
are blinded by faith. Real faith in God should be based on reality and
determination to get rid of bias. Any faith that does not care enough about
truth is an idol. As Bonhoeffer said we need to be careful that our religious
faith in God does not become an idol. The fundamental problem with idolatry is
that it cuts you off the real God if there is one. When a saintly person shows
terrible serious flaws you can be sure the God they are a saint for is the one
they have created in their heads. Jesus made that very point about the
Pharisees.
It is startling how people on the internet are dismissing Colette Livermore a
good woman without reading her book which exposed Teresa. That is bias pure and
simple. As for calling her disgruntled and dishonest that is a biased judgement.
Did they walk in her shoes? As for Christopher Hitchens, though he was correct,
he should have been a little more methodical in his refutation of Mother
Teresa's humanitarianism. But the argument does not depend on Hitchens - there
are many testimonies and investigations that support his thesis and those are
carried out by people more qualified than those armchair religionists who
despise the findings and want them forgotten.
The case against Teresa being truly good is conclusive. This wily Pope who has
made her a saint can ignore facts if he wants but he cannot make them wrong. And
I would ask people what is the best risk to take: "What comes first? Upholding
Mothers good name or risking condoning the spiritual and physical suffering she
enabled and caused and did? Do the poor matter as much to me as her?!"
THE WWW
The following sites show just what a liar Mother Teresa was and her callous
heart is laid bare. They show the deceit of Pope John Paul II who was eager to
make a saint of her.
An interview with Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa:
http://www.SecularHumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html
Defending Mother Teresa: http://www.thehappyheretic.com/3-98.htm
Mother Teresa's House Of Illusions:
http://www.SecularHumanism.org/library/fi/shields_18_1.html
The Illusory Vs. The Real Mother Teresa:
http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/august96/hakeem.html
The Mother of All Myths: http://website.lineone.net/~bajuu/
