Hindu leader's criticism of Mother Teresa adds to religious tension

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Indian Hindu leader's criticism of Mother Teresa adds to religious tension | World news | The Guardian

Indian Hindu leader's criticism of Mother Teresa adds to religious tension


Just days after the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, assured church leaders that his government would ensure the right of every citizen to “retain or adopt” any religion, the country’s foremost Hindu nationalist leader questioned the work of Christian missionaries by accusing Mother Teresa of having served the poor in order to persuade them to become Christians.

“Her service would’ve been good, but it used to have one objective, to see that the person who was being helped felt obliged to become a Christian,” said Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the National Volunteer Corps (known by its acronym RSS), a powerful Hindu organisation which counts Modi among its members.

Bhagwat said that if conversions are done “in the name of service, then that service gets devalued”. “In our country, service is neutral.” He members of an NGO in a village in Rajasthan on Monday. “Here, the service isn’t like Mother Teresa’s,.”

Since Modi came to power nine months ago, Christians and Muslims have felt besieged by a strident Hindu nationalist propaganda campaign, and in some instances have even been “reconverted” at highly publicised “homecoming” events, in line with the RSS belief that all Indians were originally Hindus.

Bhagwat had earlier described religious minorities as “stolen goods”, and declared: “I will take back my goods.”

Parliament had come to a standstill on the issue, and until last week Modi had steadfastly refused to defend religious freedom and the rights of minorities.

There was uproar in parliament again on Tuesday in response to Bhagwat’s comments. “Last week Modi was in a reconciliatory mood,” said Dominic Emmanuel of the Delhi archdiocese. “How come Bhagwat is again attacking Christians, particularly an icon like Mother Teresa? Is he somehow trying to obstruct Modi’s economic development agenda?”

The RSS later tried to downplay the issue. Bhagwat’s comments on Mother Teresa were replayed on TV, but an RSS tweet said another speaker had made them and “the media had reported wrongly”.

 

[SQ8]

Damn him!. Nobody says anything to Mother Teresa

 

[madooxno9]

He is not my leader, I am Hindu. He is just a self proclaimed B*tch.

 

[NKVD]

He is not my leader, I am Hindu. He is just a self proclaimed B*tch.

I'm aHindu too and I agree what ever he said to an extent

 

[madooxno9]

I'm aHindu too and I agree what ever he said to an extent

I know you are a RSS fan. It's your opinion. I believe in dignity of life not in a life where there is no dignity and only religious BS.

 

[JohnyD]

He is not my leader, I am Hindu. He is just a self proclaimed B*tch.

unfortunately there are buyers to his shit ! I don't understand what is he achieving by making such statements and hurting sentiments of other religions ...

 

[NKVD]

I know you are a RSS fan. It's your opinion. I believe in dignity of life not in a life where there is no dignity and only religious BS.

Person your quoting is a vedanti (atheist) in his believe.to the extent he is right he not critical of mother tersa's work but the organisation which propogates conversions on her behalf which is Vatican and church missionary organisations.

PS: better do more research on the matter rather buying media stuff .media biased hatred towards RSS already known

 

[MokshaVimukthi]

unfortunately there are buyers to his shit ! I don't understand what is he achieving by making such statements and hurting sentiments of other religions ...

What shit ? Speaking the truth without any fear is an achievement by itself.

What I do not understand is what you are trying to achieve by making such statement and hurting the sentiments of Hindus

 

[JohnyD]

Damn him!. Nobody says anything to Mother Teresa

stray dogs pee anywhere in the street and bark on everyone, they should be ignored and be killed if causing too much of nuisance in civilian society!

People like him will ensure Modi govmt doesn't come to power again paving way for inefficient Congress to come to power again.!

If this old dog's and his gangs voices are not suppressed, India will never become a true global power!

 

[madooxno9]

Lol, God help these lal chaddis. We are on right track to be a nation full of retarded fanatics.

 

[Diggy]

He is not my leader, I am Hindu. He is just a self proclaimed B*tch.

people need to know the truth..he told the truth now you can act deaf or pretend as of you never heard it.

 

[NKVD]

stray dogs pee anywhere in the street and bark on everyone, they should be ignored and be killed if causing too much of nuisance in civilian society!

People like him will ensure Modi govmt doesn't come to power again paving way for inefficient Congress to come to power again.!

If this old dog's and his gangs voices are not suppressed, India will never become a true global power!

Really BJP & RSS links are known Since there existence

Secondly congress has no guy to beat modi charismatic personality

Third, RSS is biggest NGO of India and it's work in field of humanitarian work & disaster is unmatched by these Tiny missionary organisations do research more

Last, but not the least the biggest threat which are facing by country is self hated Hindus like of you.your "jaichands"of India.

 

[NKVD]

Lol, God help these lal chaddis. We are on right track to be a nation full of retarded fanatics.

God help people like you Sicklars like you can't tolerate views other than yours


RSS Is not the first organisations to criticise tersa she was criticised by US & Europeans as well better do more research.

 

[About.to.be.banned]

unfortunately there are buyers to his shit ! I don't understand what is he achieving by making such statements and hurting sentiments of other religions ...

These are proven facts, and Bhagwat is latest entrant in long list of people who criticized Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu.

Probably you prefer something western like this

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens | 9781859840542 | Paperback | Barnes & Noble

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" Christopher Hitchens on Mother teressa
The fanatic, fraudulent Mother Teresa.


I think it was Macaulay who said that the Roman Catholic Church deserved great credit for, and owed its longevity to, its ability to handle and contain fanaticism. This rather oblique compliment belongs to a more serious age. What is so striking about the "beatification" of the woman who styled herself "Mother" Teresa is the abject surrender, on the part of the church, to the forces of showbiz, superstition, and populism.

It's the sheer tawdriness that strikes the eye first of all.It used to be that a person could not even be nominated for "beatification," the first step to "sainthood," until five years after his or her death. This was to guard against local or popular enthusiasm in the promotion of dubious characters. The pope nominated MT a year after her death in 1997. It also used to be that an apparatus of inquiry was set in train, including the scrutiny of anadvocatus diabolior "devil's advocate," to test any extraordinary claims. The pope has abolished this office and has created more instant saints than all his predecessors combined as far back as the 16th century.

As for the "miracle" that had to be attested, what can one say? Surely any respectable Catholic cringes with shame at the obviousness of the fakery.A Bengali woman named Monica Besra claims that a beam of light emerged from a picture of MT, which she happened to have in her home, and relieved her of a cancerous tumor.Her physician, Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, says that she didn't have a cancerous tumor in the first place and that the tubercular cyst she did have was cured by a course of prescription medicine.Was he interviewed by the Vatican's investigators? No. (As it happens, I myself was interviewed by them but only in the most perfunctory way. The procedure still does demand a show of consultation with doubters, and a show of consultation was what, in this case, it got.)

According to an uncontradicted report in the Italian paperL'Eco di Bergamo, the Vatican's secretary of state sent a letter to senior cardinals in June, asking on behalf of the pope whether they favored making MT a saint right away. The pope's clear intention has been to speed the process up in order to perform the ceremony in his own lifetime. The response was in the negative, according to Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, the Canadian priest who has acted as postulator or advocate for the "canonization." But the damage, to such integrity as the process possesses, has already been done.

During the deliberations over the Second Vatican Council, under the stewardship of Pope John XXIII,MT was to the fore in opposing all suggestions of reform.What was needed, she maintained, was more work and more faith, not doctrinal revision.Her position was ultra-reactionary and fundamentalist even in orthodox Catholic terms.Believers are indeed enjoined to abhor and eschew abortion, but they are not required to affirm thatabortion is "the greatest destroyer of peace," as MT fantastically asserted to a dumbfounded audience when receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.* Believers are likewise enjoined to abhor and eschew divorce, but they are not required to insist that a ban on divorce and remarriage be a part of the state constitution, as MT demanded in a referendum in Ireland (which her side narrowly lost) in 1996.Later in that same year, she toldLadies Home Journalthat she was pleased by the divorce of her friend Princess Diana, because the marriage had so obviously been an unhappy one …

This returns us to the medieval corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching hellfire and continence to the poor.MT was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend ofpoverty. 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 rich world has a poor conscience, and many people liked to alleviate their own unease by sending money to a woman who seemed like an activist for "the poorest of the poor."People do not like to admit that they have been gulled or conned, so a vested interest in the myth was permitted to arise, and a lazy media never bothered to ask any follow-up questions. Many volunteers who went to Calcutta came back abruptly disillusioned by the stern ideology and poverty-loving practice of the "Missionaries of Charity," but they had no audience for their story.
George Orwell's admonition in his essay on Gandhi—that saints should always be presumed guilty until proved innocent—was drowned in a Niagara of soft-hearted, soft-headed, and uninquiring propaganda.

One of the curses of India, as of other poor countries, is the quack medicine man, who fleeces the sufferer by promises of miraculous healing. Sunday was a great day for these parasites, who saw their crummy methods endorsed by his holiness and given a more or less free ride in the international press. Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.More than that, we witnessed the elevation and consecration of extreme dogmatism, blinkered faith, and the cult of a mediocre human personality. Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT:Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed.She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions. "

What shit ? Speaking the truth without any fear is an achievement by itself.

What I do not understand is what you are trying to achieve by making such statement and hurting the sentiments of Hindus

I distinctly remember this poster @JD_In being a blatant racist. He had insulted Nepalis on this forum calling them a weak race who are only fit to be security guards, like his watchman Bahadur.


Here is the proof:

We have gr8 respect for our Bahadur brothers...One of the security officers in our society is Nepali, every day every time when he sees me, he salutes with smile on his face saying...Salaam Saab and in return I salute him saying Salaam Bahadur..

This was pointed out by Gorkhas themselves.

There are overtones of racial supremacy in your post. Kindly delete or edit it.

 

[madooxno9]

people need to know the truth..he told the truth now you can act deaf or pretend as of you never heard it.

Chel bhai ye bhi sahi. Ab ek baat bata there are millions dying from hunger and many as you say "Dalit" have no dignity what soever. Aab agar koi christian baan jae use koi naukari dede wo apne pariwaar ka peet paal sake tho usme kya bura hai. Waise bhi Hindu rehke use mila hi kya ? I know these missions are trying to convert people but trying to frame a dead soul like Mother Teresa is just uncalled for. If she was really a person who had only one aim and that is to convert , I bet you would have seen many being converted but she personally was not responsible for that.

If Rss and lal chaddis are so concern about conversion then ask them to fight it out at ground level . Let dalits have diginity and honor. Why they can't do the same . They take pride in national service and they have ample task force to do the same as missions. Bhai you know these RSS and lal chaddis have only fake pride.