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Mother Teresa exposed

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She was exposed a long time ago. Christopher Hitchens wrote an expose, and Dr. Aroup Chatterjee
wrote a few books about her. He became suspicious when he was unable to locate most of her "clinics," despite being a native of Calcutta and knowing the city very well.

Hitchens said she didn't love the poor; she loved poverty, which isn't the same thing. What's amazing is that while she was alive, she was admired by both liberals and conservatives. The cult of Mother Teresa started in the 1960s when a Catholic filmmaker, Malcolm Muggeridge, was making a documentary about her. Muggeridge claimed that one scene was illuminated by light emanating from Mother Teresa herself.

Agnes Bojaxhiu, aka Mother Teresa, was friendly with dictators like Muammar Khaddafi, Baby Doc Duvalier, and Enver Hoxha, the dictator of her native Albania. She also accepted money from disgraced banker Charles Keating. When the judge in Keating's prosecution, Lance Ito (the same judge who later presided over the O.J. Simpson trial), wrote to her to ask her to return the money Keating stole from his customers, her response was that she could put it to better use than they could.

Mother Teresa campaigned to prevent the country of Ireland from legalizing divorce, but when her friend Princess Diana divorced Prince Charles, she applauded it because Diana was "unhappy." Her clinics were notorious for uncleanliness and withholding painkillers, and were little more than places for people to go to die, but she spared no expense on the best medical care for herself. To this day, her order, the Missionaries of Charity, refuses any external audit.

After her death, her journals revealed that she had lost her faith in God, and spent her final years in bitterness and misery. This pales in comparison to the misery she inflicted on others through her influence that encouraged the unavailability of contraception and abortion, two things that can lift women out of poverty.

Once revered by all, in recent years Mother Teresa's hypocrisy and the evil she perpetrated have become much better known. Probably suspecting that her image would be tarnished, the Vatican upended protocol by ramming through her canonization in record time after her death.
revenant · F
@LeopoldBloom Is the Torah better ? you with the Jewish name ?
@revenant Better than what? I'm not religious and I consider the Bible to be a collection of mythology and folk tales. Although, the cartoonist R. Crumb did a comic book version of Genesis that's pretty good.

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By the way, "Leopold Bloom" isn't my real name and I don't look like Stephen Rea in real life. Just like I assume you're not a zombie.
@revenant Careful there...
revenant · F
@LeopoldBloom I think you are taking very cheap shots all the time whilst hiding under a Jewish name. Why ? are you Jewish ? Or are you aware you belong to a " protected class" ?
I think Jewish people on the whole are awesome so they might not like it you taking a fake persona.
@revenant I was raised Jewish but am no longer religious. And I'm not "hiding" under a Jewish name; I just happen to like James Joyce. And I don't care what other Jewish people think. You're using a fake persona here too. If your real name is "revenant," let's see your driver's license.

And I take "very cheap shots all the time?" Can you give me an example? Everything I said about that evil harpy Mother Teresa is documented.
@revenant The name comes from a famous novel by James Joyce. Hey, I majored in physics, and even I know about Bloom's day!!
revenant · F
@LeopoldBloom well I do not take " revenant" as a cover or like an armour. Jewish people are really intelligent and well..dunno..am not jewish myself so...but they are wise.
End of it.
@revenant As Lionel Blue said, "Jews are just like everyone else, only more so."

I'm not using "Leopold Bloom" as a cover or armor. On EP I was "Hazel Motes," the character from Flannery O'Connor's novel [i]Wise Blood[/i]. So if I was still using that name, I guess you'd accuse me of using the "armor" of a small-town Southern fundamentalist Christian.
@LeopoldBloom I reckon you think you been [i]redeemed[/i]
Fascinating lady, Ms O'Connor

I took a stab at Ulysses during the pandemic but I had to look up almost everything. Made for very slow going.

@LeopoldBloom Wasn’t Leo Bloom the name of Gene Wilder's character in [i]The Producers[/i]?
@LeopoldBloom Who is in your profile picture? Google Lens is stumped.
Human1000 · M
@LeopoldBloom @BlueSkyKing Yes, and Mel Brooks is a very literate man. The reference was intentional.

I do wonder why Joyce chose a Jew for the protagonist of his masterpiece (I am more of a Portrait/Dubliners guy).

I assume it was so his protagonist would feel culturally not entirely at home in Dublin and Joyce identified with that, having written Ulysses in Paris, and as such an ex pat.
@LordShadowfire It's Stephen Rea in [i]Bloom[/i], an adaptation of James Joyce's [i]Ulysses[/i].
@Human1000 That had something to do with it. An Irish Jew is both exile and citizen. Bloom is also completely nonobservant (I don't think he does anything remotely religious throughout the novel) and is married to a Christian woman. So he's about as assimilated as it's possible to be, but in the pub scene, the character known as the "citizen" still criticizes him. There's also a scene with Stephen Dedalus and his supervisor where the other man asks why Ireland never persecuted Jews, and then answers his own question "because we never let them in."
Human1000 · M
@LeopoldBloom Right! (Hey, he's just like me! I don't eat kidney, though).
@Human1000 You don't relish the inner organs of animals?
Human1000 · M
@LeopoldBloom Lol, I’ve had liver and onions back in the day, but these days even my mother’s chopped liver gives me pause. 🙊