Have you read today's news, where Mother Teresa expressed her doubt that there is a God or a Heaven?Isn't this

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more than enough to convince believers that they need to be more honest with themselves, and to be at least as honest as Mother Teresa? Isn't this also concrete evidence that one need not be religious to devote oneself to suffering humanity?

Answer 1

Are you sure this is *today's* news? She died in 1997.

In any event, here's a link to an article on the subject, since you didn't include one:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/29/1038386314539.html

One thing you should know about"mother" Teresa is that she was a fraud.

http://www.randi.org/jr/102502.html
Is a Mother Teresa-inspired miracle that's been recognized by the Vatican a complete and utter fraud? Absolutely, says the husband of a woman whose purported tumor vanished after she applied a medallion of the beloved nun to the site of her pain. "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle," Seiku Besra told Time magazine.

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=shields_18_1
When Mother spoke publicly, she never asked for money, but she did encourage people to make sacrifices for the poor, to "give until it hurts." Many people did - and they gave it to her. We received touching letters from people, sometimes apparently poor themselves, who were making sacrifices to send us a little money for the starving people in Africa, the flood victims in Bangladesh, or the poor children in India. Most of the money sat in our bank accounts.

http://www.salon.com/sept97/news/news3970905.html
What about her celebrated concern for the poor and the weak? Here the record is much murkier than her saintly image would suggest. I have been shown testimony from leading American and British physicians, expressing their concern at the extremely low standard of medicine practiced in her small Calcutta clinics. No pain killers, syringes washed in cold water, a fatalistic attitude toward death and a strict regimen for the patients. No public accounts were made available by her "missionaries of Charity" but enormous sums are known to have been raised. The income from such awards as the Nobel Prize is alone enough to maintain a sizable operation. In one on-the-record interview, Mother Teresa spoke with pride of having opened more than 500 convents in 125 countries, "not counting India." It seemed more than probable that money donated by well-wishers for the relief of suffering was being employed for the purpose of religious proselytizing by the "missionary multinational."

Answer 2

anybody experiencing firsthand the squalor, grime, ailment and inhumanity that mom Teresa dealt with on a on a daily basis foundation could could desire to in some unspecified time interior the destiny ask "the place is God?". I interpret it as a plea for God's help. the fact that she saved going, saved her dedication, makes me heavily question the comments of her agnosticism.

Answer 3

of course one need not be religious to devote oneself to suffering humanity-i've never know that to be in doubt...as for mother theresa, the fact that she had doubts does not diminish her faith-only those WITH strong faith can endure in the face of doubts...i don't know of a single Christian who never had any doubts-we're all of us just as human as anybody else-the true test of one's faith is adversity-in being able to 'keep on keeping on'...she did that in spades, and nothing i read indicates that she ever turned away from God-but everyone has doubts from time to time, and i can imagine that she saw a lot of things that would make someone of little faith run screaming into the night!

Answer 4

Mother Teresa was a great person. Setting her faith aside, she did a great deal to help many impoverished communities in third world countries.

Answer 5

I feel that any thinking person eventually questions certain elements of their faith. I know I've done it, and so have most religious people I know. I think that asking questions is a necessary part of the spiritual growth process.

Answer 6

no, not today. some years ago. Almost every believer doubts at some point in their life. Mother Theresa stuck with it. so no, it is not your 'concrete' evidence. Dr Bethune might be a better example.

Answer 7

Mother Teresa was a faithful and religious person.

Her remarks dealt primarily with her inability to personally "feel" the love of Christ ... not with her doubting that God exists.

In that light, it makes her life and her faith even more remarkable.

Answer 8

I hope she got her faith back,it would be a shame to live for God that many year,s and give it all up and lose her reward.

Answer 9

There is a Heaven and a Hell ,choose wisely..*God Bless*

Answer 10

You make a good point. It also says a lot for the uselessness of prayer.