Saint Mother Teresa of
I
agree with the END of this essay – how poverty can be alleviated. A far as Saint
Mother working against women – that would only be in the context of her being a
loyal servant of the Catholic Church, which does work against women. She was definitely
not concerned with women’s rights – female empowerment, Matriarchy or women taking
over the family & the word; her mind wasn’t there.
“One of Mother Teresa's most outspoken
critics was English journalist Christopher
Hitchens, who wrote in a 2003 article:
This returns us to the medieval
corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching
hellfire and continence to the poor. [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the
poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a
gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment
of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory
reproduction.
Well said overall, Rasa. Indeed, that was a major, glaring blind spot of hers, and that was one thing Hitchens was correct about in that regard.
ReplyDeleteThat is indeed the only known and proven cure for poverty. Meanwhile, the patriarchy does everything they can to help poor people, especially poor women, EXCEPT take their boot off of their necks.
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