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hunter_burgess

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Aug 30, 2007 10:01

Anyone have any thoughts on Mother Theresa. I knew 'holy' people had doubts, but it's a bit daunting when the only one I've followed in my life says she quite frequently doubted god's existence. Lends credence to my own belief, though. :)

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the_outlaw August 30 2007, 16:16:43 UTC

If I were still Catholic, it would serve to only further my conviction. That someone as saintly as Mother Theresa had frequent doubts means that even the greatest among us needs their faith reaffirmed. It's only more difficult when you experience the poverty and degradation she encountered so frequently.

As an atheist, I take it as the ultimate testament that you do not need to believe in god to be a good person. It disgusts me that Catholics feel that this diminishes her works or her standing in the Church, and I honestly question whether they would be making a larger effort to contain this story if she had been a man and if she had been more politic to those she met.

They wait for the second coming, but every time someone that truly walks in the path of Jesus comes, we crucify them all over again.

hunter_burgess August 30 2007, 20:31:17 UTC

Well. Yeah. If you can't live up to someone else's example, then burn them down...

the_outlaw August 31 2007, 12:03:40 UTC

Another irony that struck me this morning while I was cooking breakfast, what did Christ say at his crucifixion? "Father, why have you abandoned me?"

But we should trash Mother Teresa because she had doubts. Fucking hypocrites.

inpseudonym August 31 2007, 07:33:51 UTC

Doubt is natural, that fact that conviction took precedence says a lot about any holy figure.

As for Mother Teresa's overall character, well thats a different story. I've always been a John Paul II man myself.

sarjenka74 August 31 2007, 22:20:46 UTC

It reminds me a lot of the way I feel all the time. Not having the comfort of conviction that you have. :) I WANT to believe in ...something...but then most of the time I don't really...but then sometimes I do. It would be a comfort to just feel one way or the other. However it makes me feel a little better to know that even Mother Theresa really didn't believe.