Reply to Indigenous Tribes Push Back Against Evangelical Missionaries

Forum Index » Religion

Reply to "Indigenous Tribes Push Back Against Evangelical Missionaries"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[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][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]
“A 1994 study by the UK-based The Lancet medical journal reported that even the most basic, life-saving drugs were not administered to salvageable patients who should have been admitted to a hospital rather than Mother Teresa’s famous home for the dying.

For a 2003 study, researchers at the University of Montreal and University of Ottawa examined nearly 300 documents belonging to the elderly nun.

The report noted “her rather dubious way of caring for the sick, questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce.” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mother-teresa-s-canonization-controversy-clouds-nun-s-work-n641181

She was a fraud. Letting people die is killing people and killing people in the name of Jesus is still murder, even if it goes unpunished on this plane, just as it was frequently murder at the Indian Schools here in the US and Canada. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics