How can a person do so many loving works as Mother Theresa without Jesus in their heart?

Question

I say it's impossible. Humans do not have that much love without him.

Answer 1

I find it somewhat astounding to read all the answers here bashing Mother Theresa and downplaying her exemplary life as either "self serving" or "something any decent person would have done".

Give credit where it's due people. Sheesh.

Answer 2

It's called being HUMAN. Men/women have a need to nuture and help in the way that we do children/poor/suffering. This doesnt have to do with jesus. What about people of other faiths/Athiest/ Jewish. Bill Gates and Warred Buffet two ATHIEST PHILANTHROPISTS are giving away BILLIONS of their own money and time (Bill gates just quit as the CEO of Microsoft to work for charity causes) to help suffering/impoverished people around the world.

Mother Teresa was a wounderful soul, however this is not just limited to one faith/group.

Answer 3

The facts are, most ( over 90%) of the money donated to Mother Teresa did not go to the poor people it was intended for.

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. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan. Where did that money, and all the other donations, go? The primitive hospice in Calcutta was as run down when she died as it always had been—she preferred California clinics when she got sick herself—and her order always refused to publish any audit. But we have her own claim that she opened 500 convents in more than a hundred countries, all bearing the name of her own order. Excuse me, but this is modesty and humility?

The German magazine Stern (10 September 1998) published a devastating critique of Mother Teresa's work on the first anniversary of her death. The article, entitled 'Mother Teresa, Where Are Your Millions?', which took a year's research in three continents, concluded that her organisation is essentially a religious order that does not deserve to be called a charitable foundation. No protest has been forthcoming from her order.

Mother Teresa maintained secrecy of her order's financial situation and instructed her employees not to keep detailed records. It has been alleged by former employees of the order that Teresa refused to authorize the purchase of medical equipment, and that donated money was instead transferred to the Vatican Bank for general use, even if it was specifically earmarked for charitable purposes.

Susan Shields, a former employee of the Missionaries of Charity in the United States, alleged that even when donors explicitly marked money as, for example, "for the hungry in Ethiopia", she was instructed not to send the money to Africa, while still writing receipts with the text "For Ethiopia". Under the laws regulating charities in most countries, this would amount to fraud and/or theft.

In the United Kingdom, where the law requires charitable organisations to disclose their expenditures, an audit in 1991 concluded that only 7% of the total income of about US$2.6 million went into charitable spending, with the rest being remitted to the Vatican Bank.

Another former Missionary of Charity worker, Eva Kolodziej, has said: "You should visit the House in New York, then you'll understand what happens to donations. In the cellar of the homeless shelter there are valuable books, jewellery and gold. What happens to them? The sisters receive them with smiles, and keep them. Most of these lie around uselessly forever." The implication was one of mismanagment of donations and a failure to turn non-financial donations into liquid assets for use in looking after the poor.

A Calcutta priest, Debi Charan Haldar, gave an interview in the December 1990 issue of Calcutta Skyline in which he said: "Many Sisters belonging to the Missionaries of Charity are very harsh towards the patients at Nirmal Hriday. Almost every night we hear heartrending cries from these old patients. I suspect the Sisters indulge in physical torture." Whether cries at night were the natural result of fatal illness, or caused deliberately by staff is not addressed by Haldar's accusation.

In September 2000, Teresa's successor Sister Nirmala admitted that one nun working in a Calcutta shelter run by the Missionaries had tortured four young street children with a hot knife. According to Nirmala, the children had tried to steal money.

Answer 4

Well you're wrong. History is filled with selfless acts of human kindness and charity without any specific relation to Christianity.

You underestimate the possibilities of human goodness, how sad to have so little belief in one's own species.

Answer 5

Anyone compassionate can be filled with love and benevolence. I've met many adherents of your religion who have brought harm to the world--far more Christians cause violence than Pagans.

Answer 6

I totally agree Some people do it for fame instead of their heart.

Answer 7

jesus does not equal love,jesus does not equal morality.

"god" and "jesus" are just biblical words usually used to instill fear and hate and control

Answer 8

I feel sorry for you if you cannot find love without using religion.

Answer 9

Any compassionate human being would have done that. Stop being an idiot.

Answer 10

God is inside each and everyone of us