Mother Teresa (house, Religious, quote, youtube, 2007)

**sleepy jack** · 08-26-2007, 12:04 AM

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In life, Mother Teresa was an icon — for believers — of God's work on Earth. Her ministry to the poor of Calcutta was a world-renowned symbol of religious compassion. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In a rare interview in 1986, Mother Teresa told CBS News she had a calling, based on unquestioned faith.

"They are all children of God, loved and created by the same heart of God," she said.

But now, it has emerged that Mother Teresa was so doubtful of her own faith that she feared being a hypocrite, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips.

In a new book that compiles letters she wrote to friends, superiors and confessors, her doubts are obvious.

Shortly after beginning work in Calcutta's slums, the spirit left Mother Teresa.

"Where is my faith?" she wrote. "Even deep down… there is nothing but emptiness and darkness... If there be God — please forgive me."

Eight years later, she was still looking to reclaim her lost faith.

"Such deep longing for God… Repulsed, empty, no faith, no love, no zeal," she said.

As her fame increased, her faith refused to return. Her smile, she said, was a mask.

"What do I labor for?" she asked in one letter. "If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not true."

"These are letters that were kept in the archbishop's house," the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk told Phillips.

The letters were gathered by Rev. Kolodiejchuk, the priest who's making the case to the Vatican for Mother Teresa's proposed sainthood. He said her obvious spiritual torment actually helps her case.

"Now we have this new understanding, this new window into her interior life, and for me this seems to be the most heroic," said Rev. Kolodiejchuk.

According to her letters, Mother Teresa died with her doubts. She had even stopped praying, she once said.

The church decided to keep her letters, even though one of her dying wishes was that they be destroyed. Perhaps now we know why.

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**boo boo** · 08-26-2007, 01:09 AM

YouTube - BULL$#!+ - Friends of Mother Theresa
YouTube - BULL$#!+ - Mother Theresa

Theres another link which I will refrain from posting, due to graphic content.

TheBig3KilledMyRainDog · 08-26-2007, 06:09 PM

I <3 Christopher Hutchins

JayJamJah · 08-26-2007, 07:53 PM

Christopher Hitchins is a marvelous orator and an equal drinker!

swim · 08-26-2007, 07:54 PM

So she's just like every other Catholic. Cool.

Gentleman Johnny · 08-26-2007, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by swimintheundertow

So she's just like every other Catholic. Cool.

player haterz.

All the cool Catholics know that Mother Teresa is so last decade.

**boo boo** · 08-26-2007, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

I <3 Christopher Hutchins

Every liberal says that.

Until they realise that he supported the war in Iraq.

Anyway. I'm currently compiling a list/article/blog of the 50 most evil, stupid and downright loathsome "Christians". Anyone you guys think to be particularly worthy?

EDIT: Please spare me the Bono requests.

adidasss · 08-27-2007, 03:36 AM

I actually already knew this. I don't think it was a big secret. And it makes her work even more incredible.

**right-track** · 08-27-2007, 04:07 AM

It seems she spent a lifetime discovering something lots of people already know...that there is no God.

**boo boo** · 08-27-2007, 04:54 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

I actually already knew this. I don't think it was a big secret. And it makes her work even more incredible.

Click my links. But if thats not enough you can also look up Aroup Chatterjee and Christopher Hitchens work on her.

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Originally Posted by right-track

It seems she spent a lifetime discovering something lots of people already know...that there is no God.

No one knows that there is no god. Nobody knows anything for certain.

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08-26-2007, 06:09 PM
TheBig3KilledMyRainDog Maybe I can keep this one Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bostonia Posts: 3,827	I <3 Christopher Hutchins __________________ “The night falls gracefully for those who have a love to call their own. But alas, for those to whom love has turned a blind eye – love, it falls like a guillotine” “No more waiting for fate to befall me, no. I have my dreamboat, and together we will find our destiny, choose our ladder to the sky” - Markus Pierson

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JayJamJah Revisonists History Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: The end of the Earth Posts: 846	Christopher Hitchins is a marvelous orator and an equal drinker! Last edited by JayJamJah : 08-26-2007 at 08:06 PM.

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swim Everyone Does Everything. Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: coastal plain North Carolina Posts: 4,396	So she's just like every other Catholic. Cool. __________________ you should be ashamed to be so proud of what you got

08-27-2007, 03:36 AM
adidasss deadbeat Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Croatia Posts: 4,461	I actually already knew this. I don't think it was a big secret. And it makes her work even more incredible. __________________

08-27-2007, 04:07 AM
right-track Avin' It! Join Date: May 2005 Location: THE PEOPLES ЯEPUBLIK ФF MAИCUИIA Posts: 4,948	It seems she spent a lifetime discovering something lots of people already know...that there is no God. __________________ Choose Liverpool. Choose the dole queue. Choose to scam disability benefit. Choose mind-numbing, grinding efficiency over flair. Choose Torben Piechnik, Istvan Kozma and Paul Stewart. Choose not to win a single league title since the backpass rule was implemented. Choose penalties. Choose car stereos, hubcaps and stanley knives. Choose to trade on your proud sense of tradition and then not lift a finger in protest when two American billionaires who don't even know the name of your club decide to buy it. Choose to win the European Cup whilst only having to play seven matches. Choose to bask in a perpetual, sickening, media love-in. Choose celebrities who ** off out of your city as soon as they have earned the money to do so and then spend the rest of their lives harping on about how wonderful it is. Choose to sing about Munich until confronted with your own tragedy. Choose to end it all in an orgy of self pity, just another excuse to perpetuate the grief culture spawned by your selfish, insular **ed-up excuse for a city. Choose your future. Choose Scouse.