The Ugly Truth About Mother Teresa

Someone once told me, “The higher the pedestal, the bigger the shadow is cast and we both know what hides in the dark.” That’s why we always dig deeper, not take things at face value.

Its easier to fool someone than to convince them that they have been fooled.

I remember I loved Mother Teresa, and was all for her becoming beatified, until I read about her history. When I read what her nuns said about her, about what she was really like- that she was a tyrant who, in a nutshell, abused patients and themselves, I felt betrayed, and I was so angry. This woman sat there and kept medicine and necessities from desperate people because she claimed that pain and suffering made people closer to Jesus by sharing his own suffering, and yet, when she got sick, she got herself top-notch medical care. Guess she didn't want to share in Jesus' suffering. She was such a hypocrite. I'm still angry about it.

Giving wrong treatment is more dangerous than no treatment

"Just because someone writes it down and calls it history, doesn't mean it's true." - Julius Ceasar in an interview with Alex Jones, circa 2020

Never put people on pedestal. Never idolize people. Each of us humans will always have our good and bad sides. It's just a matter which side weighs heavier...

This is a very interesting story. I was a teacher. One of my students was adopted and indicated she had been in a orphanage which was run by Sister Theresa. My student indicated she was not treated well, and did not speak highly of her.

There’s a study by a university in Quebec about all this. It’s not in English, but you can read reviews of it. Unfortunately those authors concluded something along the lines of “well, people like heroes even if they’re a myth.”

"Believe half what you see and none of what you hear" - some wise dude

Just like Napoleon said: "History is a bunch if lies agreed upon"

As the commentator nicely summed up " Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of the poverty..."

I personally knew nuns who where in the same religious order as Mother Teresa and served with her. Every one of those nuns told me that she was a mean person. None of them wanted to serve with her. Your vlog is absolutely true!

As a kid in the 80s our media hailed her as a hero and if you said anything bad about her you would be corrected and dismissed instantly.

"Tell the people what they want to hear, and they will never question you" -Hank Hill

I saw a public service announcement on TV back in the 1990's. In a voice-over, Mother Teresa described how she found a man dying on the streets, and her order gave the man a bed to die in. She said something like, "He died with the most beatific smile on his face." At the time, I felt something was profoundly wrong with Mother Teresa. She ignored the man until he was ready to die, then she put him in a controlled environment where she could control his suffering and death...all for the glory of Jesus Christ. That's messed up.

I remember reading an article that stated how she wouldn't help people who wouldn't convert to Christianity and how she refused to use the money given to her charity to actually be spent on the poor and instead made them suffer in poverty.

There are 3 sides to every story. Yours. Mine. The truth.

As a Russian we always call someone “mother Teresa” when we are being sarcastic. Never knew we were so close to the truth .

Religious gurus; Theresa, the Pope, the Dalai Llama, Mahatma Ghandi, your local priest, John Jones - it's almost like automatically trusting people who claim to speak for God is a terrible idea.

Wow! It must feel great cutting down an old Religious women, Sainthood and the Catholic Church to make you feel better. All the Saints would say that they are the greatest of all sinners. They are not Jesus just human. Mother Teresa took a vow of poverty and only wanted to help the poorest of the poor. She would pray and work 12 to 14 hour days in the slums of Calcutta India, Herself and the nuns begged on the streets for their own food People were dying in the streets and she would give them candy , some water and a little food maybe a cigarette before they died. She said her greatest gift was to hold their hand and let them die with dignity Many officials could not believe she was not trying to convert anyone to Catholicism She was not a politician , a businesswomen or a great speaker and she was forced to answer to Priests, Bishops and political people in power in many Countries.. Like all of us she had to answer to many people. She was a beautiful human being doing her best. Please treat her with dignity and grace like she did to everyone she encountered