India Needs a Million Mother Teresas; Celebrating Her Sainthood Isn't Enough

[denel]

crooked mother teresa

just an asshole as usual. go and uplift your population first.

 

[Sky lord]

I don't know whether she is worthy to be a Saint but she cared for the poor and needy and helped them in whatever way she could. But I have reservations about her not giving proper medical help and relying only on prayers for healing the sick. Maybe she didn't have the resources or she falsely had too much faith in prayer for healing people. One can't blame her though as she atleast helped the ones other people didn't care about.

I think it was their philosophy that everyone should be treated equally. So they refuse to pick out one person over another for medical treatment. If they cannot afford for everyone then no one.

Personally I don't agree with that approach, I think if you have limited resources then you need to make the hard decisions and concentrate it on those who will benefit the most and there should be more stress on the medical aspect of the care....but then who am I to criticize....if it were not for these nuns many of the inmates would have died on the streets.

One last thing I want to add before I leave this thread forever, is that in every story I heard from the inmates, the reason they were there was because of their own family members.....a son threw his mother of a first floor balcony, she was picked up by a passing auto rickshaw at night and dumped in front of the home, a young child born handicapped was just left behind in a hospital by parents who did not want to take care of him, the hospital called the sisters, wives who are thrown out by their husbands who want to marry again, they are too old to work and have nowhere to go so they are taken in.....the stories were terrible...it makes you lose faith in fellow human beings. There is not one person who would have been in that home if it were not for their immediate family or if the state was capable of providing justice and reparations to the weak and the poor.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

It wont, cause not minority.

If by some chance it gets popular, dont be surprised if it gets shut down, due to some random cases and allegations by foreign funded ngos. There is an entire eco system behind this at work, systematic glorification of certain people and mud slinging of others who dont fit in.

Have seen. NGO's becoming famous are being targetted either by state government or by false cases within what time, its credibility with the public will be lost.

 

[RepublicOk]

I think it was their philosophy that everyone should be treated equally. So they refuse to pick out one person over another for medical treatment. If they cannot afford for everyone then no one.

Personally I don't agree with that approach, I think if you have limited resources then you need to make the hard decisions and concentrate it on those who will benefit the most and there should be more stress on the medical aspect of the care....but then who am I to criticize....if it were not for these nuns many of the inmates would have died on the streets.

One last thing I want to add before I leave this thread forever, is that in every story I heard from the inmates, the reason they were there was because of their own family members.....a son threw his mother of a first floor balcony, she was picked up by a passing auto rickshaw at night and dumped in front of the home, a young child born handicapped was just left behind in a hospital by parents who did not want to take care of him, the hospital called the sisters, wives who are thrown out by their husbands who want to marry again, they are too old to work and have nowhere to go so they are taken in.....the stories were terrible...it makes you lose faith in fellow human beings. There is not one person who would have been in that home if it were not for their immediate family or if the state was capable of providing justice and reparations to the weak and the poor.

I agree.
Although one might not agree with her methods, which is fine, but no one can deny that Mother Teresa helped the poor and the needy.

 

[denel]

I think it was their philosophy that everyone should be treated equally. So they refuse to pick out one person over another for medical treatment. If they cannot afford for everyone then no one.

Personally I don't agree with that approach, I think if you have limited resources then you need to make the hard decisions and concentrate it on those who will benefit the most and there should be more stress on the medical aspect of the care....but then who am I to criticize....if it were not for these nuns many of the inmates would have died on the streets.

One last thing I want to add before I leave this thread forever, is that in every story I heard from the inmates, the reason they were there was because of their own family members.....a son threw his mother of a first floor balcony, she was picked up by a passing auto rickshaw at night and dumped in front of the home, a young child born handicapped was just left behind in a hospital by parents who did not want to take care of him, the hospital called the sisters, wives who are thrown out by their husbands who want to marry again, they are too old to work and have nowhere to go so they are taken in.....the stories were terrible...it makes you lose faith in fellow human beings. There is not one person who would have been in that home if it were not for their immediate family or if the state was capable of providing justice and reparations to the weak and the poor.

I saw first hand by going to their first centre in africa which was established outside Dar, Tanzania. Man, your heart will break when you see the children's stories but the dignity, cleanliness, school, these nuns tried to provide a loving home to kids who were put on the door steps and would have died; by working with them, i saw how God lives in every one and how people will come over to assist.
Man, it made me a better person is what i can say. I remember her quote very well - 'i am not here to convert to christianity, but yes i will convert you to be a better person'.
Every one has flaws and so do all prophets - she was just a human being who took one a burden that neither one of could even manage for just 1 min.
I pray that there are many like her in this world.
PS: My last note on this thread, if you want to insult and call her names, just remember to respect people - you too have a mother - respect her; if you still have some level of common sense, go and do volunteering work at orphanages or food kitchens and learn some humility.
For India, you can explode bombs and put satellites in orbit but there is no but no basic priority to tackle poverty - it is left to individuals with conviction like mother teresa or aravind to go next step - even then stones are cast of them by the wretched upper/middle class who would want these people to just disappear.