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On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Nicolas Martin wrote:

> You see, Carol, I am able to claim privacy because I am not attacking 
> the humanitarian motives of Mother Teresa. 

You have not right to claim privacy when you attempt to invade the privacy
of others.

The humanitarian motives of Mother Teresa have already been attacked by
others, including Susan Shields.

http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/shields_18_1.html
http://www.thehappyheretic.com/3-98.htm
http://www.cephasministry.com/catholic_mother_teresa.html

Christopher Hitchens has also written on this subject.  The video which
tells the truth about Mother Teresa has been censored in this free land of
ours.  Why?

>Since you are, it is your 
> obligation to demonstrate that your motives and actions are superior to 
> hers. Im sure you understand this parallel: if Newt Gingrich criticizes 
> the sexual behavior of Bill Clinton, then his own life should be without 
> comparable defects (which it was not). It is known as not throwing 
> stones if you live in a glass house.

Such as the stones you have thrown in this post.  I have no obligation to
offer proof to you of my humanitarian actions.  You make unsubstantiated
claims that I help no one.   Beside being uninformed, you are full of
crap.

You have only looked at the pro-Teresa propaganda and have no desire to
consider the dark side.

I can criticize M.Teresa on the basis of the documentation I have read.
 
> You have said all that need be said. That you WOULD treat unfortunates 
> better than Teresa did if only you could drag yourself away from the 
> computer. But that is your fantasy, unsupported by any actions that you 
> take. Your tacit (but evasive) admission is that you actually offer no 
> help at all. Your is the role of the armchair humanitarian. The idea 
> that that qualifies you to criticize Teresa is laughable. She got good 
> medical care because she could. You get good medical care because you 
> can. The difference is that she ALSO helped others to the extent it was 
> possible, and you are helping nobody.

> Again, what prevents you from doing volunteer work for the sick and the 
> poor. Have you no time even to visit the kids in a cancer ward once a 
> month?

You don't know about my volunteerism.  You have no knowledge of my
charitible giving.

> Try this Ben Franklin quote: "Well done is better than well said." It 
> applies rather nicely to the armchair humanitarian like youself.
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The most riveting material in the book is contained in two letters: one
from Mother Teresa to Judge Lance Ito--then weighing what sentence to dole
out to the convicted Keating--which cited all the work Keating has done
"to help the poor," and another from a Los Angeles deputy D.A., Paul
Turley, back to Mother Teresa that eloquently stated that rather than
working to reduce Keating's sentence, she should return the money he gave
her to its rightful owners, the defrauded bond-holders. (Significantly,
Mother Teresa never replied.) And why do former missionary workers and
visiting doctors consistently observe that the order's medical practices
seem so inadequate, especially given all the money that comes in?

http://www.tbook.com/h/Christopher_Hitchens/The_Missionary_Position_Mother_T_1859849296.htm


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