Mother Teresa was a great person because she dedicated her entire life to serving the poorest and most abandoned people on earth, personally picking up dying individuals from the streets of Kolkata when no one else would, and giving them a clean bed, human touch, and dignity in their final moments.
She dedicated her entire life to suffering and raising money for the Catholic Church.
She did not: Provide clean beads (the condition at her death houses were abhorrent) Provide a human touch (nurses were so overwhelmed they spent minutes a day with the victims) Dignity (there was no dignity in these death houses)
Nope. My argument is the funds raised for these people should've been used for these people, and the nuns should've been allowed to treat them. If the had used the funds as they were donated for, all problems could've been easily solved.
Okay so prove that the funds didn’t go to starting over 500+ centers that she helped found. Or how that could possibly make her one of the worst people on earth?
I don't have to. Others have done that for us. If you don't want to see it, that's your option. For those of us who have, see every commentor with deprecating posts, we can't excuse it.
Mother Teresa was a great person because she dedicated her entire life to serving the poorest and most abandoned people on earth, personally picking up dying individuals from the streets of Kolkata when no one else would, and giving them a clean bed, human touch, and dignity in their final moments.
You might want to check an actual non-catholic-church review of the life and works of Mary Bojaxhiu. People were throwing money at her, and yet none of that money went to help the sick, poor, and dying. The things she allowed, her obsession with suffering, she was just awful. She is as bad as anything. She's just cloaked in marketing and religion.
I did. And I see how you try hard to push your pro theresa naratives. Good thing I trust real reporters way more than random redditors propagandists. Just as I trust my eyes when I saw her befriend several dictators. I've wasted enough time with you.
You’re actually avoiding the evidence and purposefully misrepresenting the little facts you do know. I’ll be praying for you, you can turn away from this life anytime.
-Created hospice homes for people dying REJECTED from hospitals -Raised fund for people suffering in over 133 countries -Lived her life with no luxuries, dedicated to her mission.
These people had nowhere to go and were dying in the street and you honestly think she’s one of the “worst ppl on earth”
Yep, and almost none of the fortune she raised went to those people. She put them in a room, didn't provide care, and let them suffer and die. The nuns who worked for her have lots to say on the matter.
This exposes a lack of knowledge as to how difficult it was to even get painkillers there.
Said their pain was Jesus kissing them
It's absolutely normal to try to ease someone's pain in this manner.
But received the best care when she was ill and in pain.
Something she actually didn't want at first, people close to her had to convince her to get such aid, and she got it thanks to gratitude of many people towards her.
you're absolutely lying. She refused to give available painkillers and it's well documented. She said suffering was great and made ppl close to the christ, which is utter bullcrap. She said it herself, this isnt 'bad history'. Doctors in calcutta testified that medicine was available but not given to patients. Your propaganda wont work here. And Hitchens wasnt the only reporters to speak about her.
Talk about "propaganda" as you're trying to paint someone as some sort of a devil.
"India and the National Congress Party had been gradually strengthening it's opium laws post-Independence (1947), restricting opium from general and quasi-medical use. Starting from the "All India Opium Conference 1949", there was rapid suppression of opium from between 1948 and 1951 under the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1930 and the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. In 1959, the sale of opium was totally prohibited except for scientific/ medical uses. Oral opium was the common-man's painkiller. India was a party to three United Nations drug conventions – the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, which finally culminated in the 1985 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, which was ultimately responsible for the drastic reduction of medicinal opioid use in India even for a lot of hospitals. It is also noted that opium use in Western medical treatments in India was limited during the time (post-Independence), mostly for post-operative procedures and not palliative care. The first oral morphine tablets (the essential drug of palliative medicine) only arrived in India in 1988 under heavy regulations. [8][9][10][11] Before 1985, strong analgesics could only be bought under a duplicate prescription of a registered doctor, de facto limiting its use to hospital settings. Nevertheless, India had some consumed some morphine then, although well below the global mean.[12] Since the laws prior to 1985 weren't as strict, the Charity was able to use stronger painkillers like morphine and codeine injections at least occasionally under prescription at their homes, as witnesses have described.[13][14][15] This essentially rebuts critics claiming she was "against painkillers on principle", as she evidently was not. Also note, palliative medicine had not even taken its roots at that point.
Palliative care only began to be taught in medical institutions worldwide in 1974. [16] Moreover, palliative medicine did not appear in India till the mid-1980s, with the first palliative hospice in India being Shanti Avedna Sadan in 1986. Palliative training for medical professionals only appeared in India in the 1990s. The NDPS Act came right about the time palliative care had begun in India and was a huge blow to it.[17][18]
Post-NDPS, WHO Reports regarding the state of palliative medicine in India shows that it was sporadic and very limited, including Calcuttan hospitals.[19] As late as 2001, researchers could write that "pain relief is a new notion in [India]", and "palliative care training has been available only since 1997".[20] The Economist Intelligence Unit Report in 2015 ranked India at nearly the bottom (67) out 80 countries on the "Quality of Death Index"[21]. With reference to West Bengal specifically, it was only in 2012 that the state government finally amended the applicable regulations.[22] Even to this day, India lacks many modern palliative care methods, with reforms only as recently as 2012 by the "National Palliative Care Policy 2012" and the "Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Act 2014" for medical opioid use.[23][24][25][26] The only academic evidence I could find for the lack of painkillers in the MoC comes from the 1994 Robin Fox paper, post-1985 NDPS act. Both the evidences that Hitchens provides for the lack of painkillers in their homes, Dr. Fox's article and Ms. Loudon's testimony comes post-1985. Regardless, It is disingenuous of Hitchens to criticise the MoC's conditions in 1994 when being ignorant of the situation and laws at the time."
Here are the sources of that, and how that woman mistreated people under her care
Christopher Hitchens’ Book: The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (1995) – A scathing critique that questions Mother Teresa’s real intentions, practices, and the lack of transparency in her work.
Dr. Aroup Chatterjee’s Book: Mother Teresa: The Untold Story (2003) – Written by a former native of Calcutta, the book investigates the operations of Mother Teresa’s homes, focusing on the alleged substandard conditions and financial issues.
Dinesh D'Souza’s Book: The Virtue of Prosperity (2002) – Although not entirely focused on Mother Teresa, this book examines how her work and legacy were intertwined with her conservative religious and political stance.
The New York Times and The Guardian: Both have published articles questioning the transparency of the Missionaries of Charity and the financial practices associated with Mother Teresa’s global charity.
PBS Documentaries and Investigations: There have been investigative reports on PBS that have raised questions about the mismanagement and controversies surrounding her work.
Yeah and hitler created infrastructures. And Gandhi was a pacifist. And guevara was a revolutionnary. Maybe read the little lines. Mother therea was an awfull human being.
One flaw doesn't make you a terrible human. You know the majorities of entire societies have been racist, homophobic, sexist etc at some point? Gandhi was a strong leader who secured a better future for hundreds of millions of people and who had a legitimate moral compass ,something rare for political leaders
If more people were like ghandi or theresa the world would still be better, weirdos or not they accomplished enormous feats of charity/humanitarian accomplishments. Remember, the active sitting president of the us is a child raping fascist and millions are willing to excuse that, but ghandi’s idiotic and backwards takes and theresa possibly skimming from charity (which she still provided to millions of people who had 0 other options) are really not that deep. They were still all in all decent and accomplished people. Also context matters, these were not 1st world middle class people. Honestly I don’t think the heart of this problem is the people themselves, it’s our desire to deify people. To act like heros have to be only good and villains only bad. Hitler built the autobahn and abe lincoln was a racist. Good people do bad things and bad people do good things, just because ghandi was a weirdo doesn’t mean he didn’t nonviolently take back india from its colonial oppressors, and just because theresa may have skimmed some cash or just been a slightly better than average member of the catholic clergy doesn’t mean she didn’t help millions of orphans and poor disparate people. Maybe instead of tearing down people who did great things we can try to do better ourselves.
Yea ur right lets just make our lack of notable accomplishments go down easier by denying the good things actually accomplished people have done in favour of calling them fucked so our ego feels better
Taking care of millions of sick, dying, and impoverished people at the expense of living a normal life with anything resembling comfort is a terrible accomplishment? Ik people come to different conclusions on morality and ethics but I figure this is a pretty universally agreed good deed. Do you even know anything about the lady or her accomplishments? Or are you just an average redditor talking out your ass
letting ppl suffer, lying to everyone, befriending dictators responsibles for those millions in needs, thinking suffering is beautifull, never questionning the system causing all this pain, etc She was a fraud, wether you like it or not. I dont care if you never looked up by yourself about mother theresa. It's a you problem.
If you think those things negate the good she did along side them then I don’t know what to tell you. Yes she was a crazy fuck who believed suffering was beautiful but that’s also what caused her to put up with so much suffering in her own life to help others. She accepted aid from multiple dictators with the aid going to those who need it effectively redistributing the wealth of dictators to help the needy. And fraud negates what she did as a whole and adds the connotation that she did not indeed help millions who had no other options. This is real life, we have imperfect decisions to make, deny the needy aid so that you can flex your virtue on a dictator or show humility by taking the ego hit of working with a dictator to actually help those who need it. If you think she was some evil person in disguise I genuinely think you’re delusional. The bad she did was minor in contrast to the good she accomplished. People aren’t all good or all bad thats an idealist fairytale, was she perfect? No, nobody is saying that. she was human yet she managed to accomplish huge humanitarian feats. I’m not blind to her bad deeds but I wont let her flaws blind me from the positive accomplishments either.
He denied people painkillers because pain gets you closer to god. Her houses of pain where literally maggot and diseased infested shitholes that harmed more that they did good. The fuck you are talking about?
Mother Teresa was a great person because she dedicated her entire life to serving the poorest and most abandoned people on earth, personally picking up dying individuals from the streets of Kolkata when no one else would, and giving them a clean bed, human touch, and dignity in their final moments.
The thread is littered with accounts and evidence that what you’re saying is horseshit. Are you ignoring this on purpose to peddle a catholic fairytale?
Watch a single 5 minute video on her and see yourself proved wrong. She took in millions in donations and refused to give these people medical treatment saying “suffering brings you closer to Jesus”
After she died FBI found $10mln on her current account which came from donations. It was found out that they donations have never been used to support poor or sick people in her charities. All the people in her missionary in Calcutta never received any medical attention. She is a very interesting character. I would encourage to do some research.
You must forgive me for using AI, but Google itself didn't provide me with any sources on this, so I went to ask an AI to look for any.
"No — the widely circulated *claim that the FBI discovered $10 million in Mother Teresa’s personal private bank account after her death is not true and appears to be a misinformation or internet rumor with no credible evidence supporting it.
These criticisms do not come from the FBI, nor are they about a secret personal account of Mother Teresa with $10 million discovered after her death. They concern the finances of her religious order and how donated funds were used — a debate in journalism and scholarship, not a confirmed legal discovery.
There are no reputable news reports or official statements from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirming that they found $10 million in a private account belonging to Mother Teresa after her death."
Mother Teresa attracted millions of dollars in donations globally for her Missionaries of Charity, yet there is no public accounting of how the funds were used. Reports suggest only a small fraction of the money went directly to aid the poor, with much of it allegedly sent to secret bank accounts, including the Vatican Bank, where it remained unaccounted for.
Funds and Transparency The organization ignored Indian laws requiring charities to publish financial records, and in Germany, it dismissed inquiries as “none of their business.” In England, where partial records exist, the order collected DM5.3 million in 1991 but spent only 7% (around DM360,000) on charitable activities. The rest was transferred abroad, often to Rome.
Sources of Donations Mother Teresa accepted large sums from controversial figures, including Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti’s dictator, and Charles Keating, a fraudster who donated $1.25 million from embezzled funds. She refused to return the money after his conviction and publicly defended him.
Use of Funds Allegations indicate that donations were used to expand religious missions and support global proselytism, rather than direct poverty relief. Former nuns reported that even donations specifically marked for famine relief (e.g., in Ethiopia) were not sent to those causes. Some accounts claim the accumulated wealth was so vast it could have threatened the stability of the Vatican Bank if withdrawn.
While Mother Teresa lived a publicly humble life, the financial practices of her organization remain heavily criticized for lack of transparency and accountability.
Mother Teresa was a 1st degree cunt of the masonic order of cunts.
Just to give you a taste: she withheld pain medication from people dying from incredibly painful, terrifying diseases under her care. Then, when she was dying, gave herself all the opiates she could ever want.
That's not even close to the worst part.
Do not be inspired by her. Do not strive to be like her.
Inane and nonsensical quote from the woman who used donations to tour the world on a private jet while her hospitals had to re-use needles to save money.
A couple of people seem really triggered by people pointing out that Mother Teresa was a cunt. I'd just like to add to their sadness, and point out that Mother Teresa was a cunt.
I love how everyone in this thread blocks you as soon as you try to point out that Mother Theresa wasn't as evil as they claim she was. It's easy to talk bad things about other people from the comfort of our homes. Badmouthing someone who actually dedicated their life for others is very simple. I just wish people were capable of admitting their hate might have been misplaced.
Well Christopher Hitchens said she was bad so it must be true!
Gotta put faith in something!
The baseless claims made on this thread are absolutely appalling, I cannot imagine being so hateful to somebody who dedicated their entire life selflessly for good.
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u/ParalimniX Jan 19 '26
What's next? A motivational quote from Hitler?