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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mother Teresa is the perfect example of missionaries who do significant harm against the people they claim to want to help.[/quote] what did mother Teresa do[/quote]

Wow. Do you live under a rock?[/quote]

NP and I also don’t know. [/quote]
This isn’t loading well for me on my computer so I can’t be sure, but it was Christopher Hitchens who wrote a book (and this piece https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/10/the-fanatic-fraudulent-mother-teresa.html) about her. IIRC, the gist was that she kept people in a dire, poorly run clinic and never gave them the drugs that would have cured their conditions while she herself took off for modern medical care in the US. [/quote]

And the pushback is that she was running a hospice, not a medical clinic, on a shoestring. Hospices don’t give out drugs besides the palliative type. When my mom was in hospice she only got palliative care. [/quote]

And the response is that she cared for people with curable diseases who had no business being in a hospice[/quote]
+1

I consider it murder for someone to deny medical care for curable conditions. Ushering people into the grave early when they are treatable is a grave sin. [/quote]

Except she didn’t have the money or facilities to provide medical care. She was running a hospice on a limited budget. People who needed medical care should have gone to one of the other mission-based medical clinics you people are always complaining about.[/quote]
Mother Theresa was wealthy 
Most donations went to build monasteries in India 
She didn’t care about the needy that much, they were a means to an end [/quote]

She was running a hospice, that was her chosen form of service. Not a medical clinic. End of story. Missionaries run plenty of medical clinics in India and sick people could go to those.

This is silly. [/quote]
You don’t put people in a hospice when they have a treatable condition. That’s not hospice. Hospice is end of life care for terminal conditions. Do you see why she, as a missionary, acted wrongly? [/quote]

Hitchens had no footnotes or sources for his claims that she “put” curable people in hospice. Hitchens didn’t say how many, either—1/2 or dozens? He doesn’t give any examples of her refusing to treat people or refusing to refer them to medical clinics. Plus what does “curable” even mean in a country where the clinics (mission or secular) can’t afford the advanced treatments we have. Do you see the problem with his claim?[/quote]

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