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progressoid

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21. "Mother Teresa was a martyr ... for white, bourgeois guilt"

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 03:53 PM

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Mother Teresa Was No Saint [View all] niyad Sep 2016 OP

I only regret that I have but one K&R to give to this post The Polack MSgt Sep 2016 #1

sadly, you are quite correct niyad Sep 2016 #2

+1000 smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #25

Nailed it. nt SusanCalvin Sep 2016 #38

Me too. GoneOffShore Sep 2016 #30

I would have thought... Mike Nelson Sep 2016 #3

even things that don't happen!! niyad Sep 2016 #5

Indeed. She was a horrible person. R&K nt longship Sep 2016 #4

K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Sep 2016 #6

Yeah, but they need new saints. HassleCat Sep 2016 #7

Marketing is the name of the game. trotsky Sep 2016 #10

Looks like she is one now! misterhighwasted Sep 2016 #8

k and r Stuart G Sep 2016 #9

lets hope trump does not hire her pr firm dembotoz Sep 2016 #11

Come on - it's all BS malaise Sep 2016 #12

it's a vatican PR stunt to raise $$. sainthood is a racket nt msongs Sep 2016 #13

That whole miracle requirement makes me think none of them really are. ToxMarz Sep 2016 #14

'Mother Teresa will be the patron saint of white people on gap years' LynneSin Sep 2016 #15

Hitchens did a vidja about her. MynameisBlarney Sep 2016 #16

Hitchens, rightly, put Theresa in her place. progressoid Sep 2016 #20

Aye MynameisBlarney Sep 2016 #22

One of C. Hitchens many critiques on this "saint" was.... wolfie001 Sep 2016 #23

The woman was deranged! smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #26

It was barbaric MynameisBlarney Sep 2016 #32

The sick thing is she had the means and money to help smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #33

It can make you mad cry just thinking of the unnecessary suffering! wolfie001 Sep 2016 #34

Sounds eerily similar to MynameisBlarney Sep 2016 #36

Ain't that the truth. SusanCalvin Sep 2016 #39

(Shrug) The Church made a Roman tax collector the patron saint of bankers. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2016 #17

Wow, brutal, but true Saviolo Sep 2016 #18

K&R nt lillypaddle Sep 2016 #19

"Mother Teresa was a martyr ... for white, bourgeois guilt" progressoid Sep 2016 #21

Yep, bingo. trotsky Sep 2016 #24

Lets see... tavernier Sep 2016 #27

The Vatican chose him to play the Devil's Advocate wolfie001 Sep 2016 #35

The Albania poison dwarf. GoneOffShore Sep 2016 #28

The so-called "University of Ottawa study" was conducted by struggle4progress Sep 2016 #29

I figured that "study" was bogus. Apparently The_Casual_Observer Sep 2016 #31

I agree BlueInPhilly Sep 2016 #37

Hitchens's research was used by the Vatican REP Sep 2016 #40