Half An hour And Half A Beer Until I Go To Work

I'll say it...I wouldn't have sex with her.

I've always wondered why Hitch was so hard on the Saintly Mother Teresa. I think he called her a fraud, skank arse beeotch, that was totally fake when the cameras were on, but when they were off...hella if she was touching any lepers-n-such. I guess If I had read his book on Mamma-T then I would know what is the up, but in the meantime...this article will do.

Give credit where credit is due, the site that I always say isn't as good as the other sites, CNN Belief Blog has come thru with the goodies...and in a list form at that.

1. She was born a rich girl.
2. She wans't always *Mother Teresa*, she was a (normal) person before that.
3. She changed our view of the poor (apparently according to her, her poor was the poorest of the poor, the ones no one wanted anything to do with...even tho there are many that do the same exact thing.).
4. She was a marketing guru (can't really blame someone for promoting the brand).
5. She cultivated her celebrity (not a crime in my book, sorry Hitch).
6. She had a long dark nite of the soul (and this is where my hero, Hitch comes into play).
7. She's not a saint yet, officially (whatevahhhhh).


OK let's get down to it. #6.

Basically there was a period where Terry was just going thru the motions and did NOT feel the hand or the grace of God, or Jesus for that matter. There are letters from her at this time (released by the Vatican, yes, that Vatican) that pretty much say this is so. On commenting on the 39 year time period where she was faking her Christianity she wrote, " The silence and the emptiness are so great, that I look and do not see-the tounge moves (in prayer) but does not speak."

My first reaction is, ewh, she had the hots for Jesus and then...ewh. I think this is why Hitch called her a "confused old lady."

I hate to do this, but I'm gonna disagree with my hero, Hitch. Perhaps this is a brainwashed Filipino Catholic Kriss talking but...doesn't one halfta have lapses in faith/belief so that they can be redeemed one day. A faithful life is like a good short story in that there is a character that has conflict trys and fails, then overcomes the bs and at one point in it is...ugh, I halfta say it...is redeemed. Yes.

Here's the part where I do think religion is fakey fake.

The reason(s) why she went all Mother Teresa and transformed from a normal person into this celebrity saint persona is because she had a vision that Jesus spoke to her (do you hear that phone ringing, that's Paul from Damascus calling. Aaaaaa...).


While she was a missionary in India she claims that JC came and rapped to her that "Teresa, take me to the shittiest places in the poorest of the poor places on da erffs to expose those souls to me. Thanks."

Ugh, where do I begin with visions and such. First of all, Paul had a freekin' epileptic seizure on the road to Damascus. The ancients can call it what they think it is, but by today's standards...seizure.

When JC visits (a perhaps dehydrated) Mamma T he specifically mentions working in India. Gee, I dunno, I would call this self full filling prophecy. Just like all near death experiences are totally the same because we have all been conditioned to believe that a n.d.e. will go down like that, isn't the same thing happening to Mamma T in India (yes). She was lead to believe that the mission was in India (and later the world) and wouldn't you know it...Jesus in her vision said the same exact thing.

I didn't know about the she came from rich people or was a marketing guru stuffs before. I guess I now have motivation to read Hitch's book on her. The Missionary Position (dam, I miss this guy).