Who is someone you think did something great for the world?
for me it's brian deer!
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windinhishair · 61-69, M
popmol · 22-25, M
@windinhishair all over the place but nice choices!
popmol · 22-25, M
@windinhishair what is he known for?
popmol · 22-25, M
@windinhishair well i dislike the theology part but the part of making a hospital in a remote part of africa is ggreat!
LeopoldBloom · M
@windinhishair More has come out about Mother Teresa that doesn't show her in a good light. Christopher Hitchens wrote "The Missionary Position" which exposed the deplorable conditions at her clinics and her ties to some of the worst dictators of the 20th century, including Baby Doc Duvalier, Muammar Khaddafi, and Enver Hoxha. Dr. Aroup Chatterjee, a native of Calcutta, also wrote several books about her, accusing her of fraud. Chatterjee became suspicious when he couldn't find many of the clinics she claimed to operate, despite his familiarity with the city.
She was also a blatant hypocrite, flying off for state-of-the-art heart surgery while patients in her clinics were denied painkillers on the grounds that the greater their suffering in this life, the greater their reward would be in the next. She campaigned against the law in Ireland allowing divorce, then praised her friend Princess Diana when she divorced Prince Charles. She accepted large donations from the criminal banker Charles Keating, and ignored a request from Judge Lance Ito (the O.J. Simpson trial judge) to return it to the people Keating had defrauded.
I would take her off the list. She's someone who caused great suffering to many people. As Hitchens said, she didn't love the poor; she loved poverty. Not the same thing.
She was also a blatant hypocrite, flying off for state-of-the-art heart surgery while patients in her clinics were denied painkillers on the grounds that the greater their suffering in this life, the greater their reward would be in the next. She campaigned against the law in Ireland allowing divorce, then praised her friend Princess Diana when she divorced Prince Charles. She accepted large donations from the criminal banker Charles Keating, and ignored a request from Judge Lance Ito (the O.J. Simpson trial judge) to return it to the people Keating had defrauded.
I would take her off the list. She's someone who caused great suffering to many people. As Hitchens said, she didn't love the poor; she loved poverty. Not the same thing.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@LeopoldBloom I will do some more reading on her and let you know what I think. She sounds much more complicated than her public persona. Still, not everything about her could have been fabricated.
LeopoldBloom · M
@windinhishair Start here. It's a short article.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/10/the-fanatic-fraudulent-mother-teresa.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/10/the-fanatic-fraudulent-mother-teresa.html
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@LeopoldBloom Thanks! I appreciate it.