Mother Theresa, "Patron Saint of Skeptics"?

Question

Asking a question, not stating an opinion one way or another.

Answer 1

Just a human being.

Answer 2

Just goes to show that she was an ordinary human being with her ups and downs in her spiritual journey. Only if she had more pegs to hang her faith on.

Personally speaking, when I go through that phase I look at all that I can see - the earth, moon, sun and stars - and I ask myself where did everything come from? Did God create all this or everything started with something that was infinitely hot and infinitely small which for no apparent reason exploded what we know as the "Big Bang"? And I tell myself there is too much organization in what I see to leave everything to chance and I say 'Big Bang was when God spoke and stars and planets flew out into space'!

"By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." (Psalms 33:6).

Answer 3

Yes! In the far Norwegian north, where most trolls originated, is a small catholic monastery called Oblegianian. It was named after a local fisherman who first captured a troll. In 1612, Pope Pius VIII canonized Norge Oblegianian as the patron saint of trolls. Not often taught outside of Norway, due to the Lutherization of Norway in the 17th century, St. Norge is also the patron saint of Norway.

Answer 4

Skeptics? Mother Teresa was no skeptic. A skeptic would not be constantly faithful and true for so many years, even during extended periods of time without personal experiences of God's love and guidance. Other great saints have had similar experiences. Read the Christian classic "Dark Night of the Soul" by Saint John of the Cross. Mother Teresa apparently experienced in some measure the same sorts of trials St. John experienced; and no doubt she is his equal in the profound depth of her spirituality.

Answer 5

she had her doubts just like any other human being. some may claim that they believe with all their heart, but somewhere within them is a tiny seed of doubt, no matter what. whether she was a skeptic or not, Mother Teresa appeared to be a loving, caring person, moreso than many others can claim. whether she was completely genuine or not, only God knows.

Answer 6

An Amazing unselfish human being, may she rest in peace

Answer 7

"Mother" Teresa 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 8

Yes.

Answer 9

well HOWDY''

Answer 10

be back later, here's yore star for now'' ''oxo'
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