Why we hate Mother Teresa
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So the Catholic Church has chosen to ignore the description given by the great Christopher Hitchens - "a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf" - and canonize one of the most evil women of the 20th Century. Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu was her real name, but she chose to hide under the alias of "Mother Teresa", even though she had no children and was not called Teresa at all.
How I hate that woman. She opposed a woman's right to choose to dismember her unborn child (when Hitchens asked her if she had any "baby parts" for sale, she looked at him in total disbelief). She never spoke up for same-sex marriage, incest, polygamy and orgies in tanks of olive oil, which are now accepted by all mainstream orthodox secularists. As for transgender awareness, she still lived in the dark ages when they had sexist labels such as "male" and "female" - and "Mother" of course! Teresa even attended Catholic Church services, as if she actually believed all that nonsense about God. Sheeesh!
Mother Teresa. What a horrible smug woman.
When the Catholic Church decides whom to canonize, it doesn't ask journalists like me to advise them. That's why you don't see such heroes as Marie Stopes, Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela and Hugo Chávez getting an expensive ceremony with lots of pilgrims singing their praises. No, they pick on some wretched nun who was not only undersized but also Albanian (well spotted, Christopher!) and give her the works! She was never invited to our Islington dinner parties, and serve her right!
Apparently, "Saint" Teresa ran some sort of hospital in Calcutta, but if you turned up asking for a sex-change, an abortion, or even "something for the weekend", she would ignore you in favour of some nasty smelly person with leprosy, tuberculosis or other socially unacceptable disease. No compassion for those of us who suffer modern illnesses such as acne, hair loss, or halitosis! Monster!
Mother Teresa and one of her smelly old lepers.
She was a self-publicist, nagging people for money to waste on a bunch of dying no-hopers. She'd fly across the world to see rich people, just to embarrass them into coughing up some cash. For crying out loud, she could have walked, couldn't she? Also, she was too proud to use the traditional "get rich" methods employed by the majority of our readers, such as embezzlement, insider trading, and mugging people late at night.
Well, what do you expect of the Catholic Church? Pope Francis has been a great disappointment to us: he may have correctly identified climate change as the biggest issue facing us in this era, or indeed any era, but he puts God and Jesus a close second, which is a real turn-off. Mother Teresa was the same, so HOW DARE the Catholic Church honour her in this way?
Er, will that do? All I needed to say was that she was a Catholic, and so should never have been canonized, but I needed to pad it out a little.
Labels: Calcutta, Catholic Church, Christopher Hitchens, Hattie Jacques, Monty Python, Mother Teresa, The Guardian, The Independent
Mother Teresa persuaded Cardinal Hume to give her 16 rows of pews from the Cathedral on condition that she wait until replacements arrived.The following day a nun drove a truck to the Cathedral door and removed the pews.Truly indomitable in her work for the Lord.
Rach_StBern 7 September 2016 at 00:09
Eccles, you've cheered me right up, as ever. These journalists who write vile things about Mother Teresa make me so mad with anger, but you do the sensible thing and prove what silly sausages they are in the way only you can with whip smart wit and stella humour. Love you to pieces. Hurrah for Saint Mama Teresa!
comfyteor 7 September 2016 at 00:59
My city's cathedral, chock full of people, because Mother Theresa were about to speak there. She appeared, a tiny frail woman, and when she was approaching some inconsiderate woman, among those who were waiting under the stage, grabbed her clothes to touch her, and she tripped, just a little.
So for a painful instant I pictured Mother Theresa, the fearless nun roaming the dangerous streets of Calcutta, falling and breaking her leg in a western cathedral.
Luckily, she recomposed and beamed a smile to the inconsiderate woman, whom I immediately addressed with: "Are you crazy? be careful with those hands, mom!"
Muv 7 September 2016 at 13:47
Mother Teresa a brand? No, that's St Jo of Infinite Cakes and St Russell of Vile Smut.
Gatepost productions 8 September 2016 at 20:24
... And ... she was canonised on the NHS, when she could have gone private. It's enough to make St Jeremony cringe.
Cressida de Nova 11 September 2016 at 17:05
How awful to read these vituperative statements about Mother Teresa by Christopher Hitchens. He was such a nasty bitter unhappy man . I don't think he liked Catholics dwarves or Albanians very much.Oh well...I hope he has adjusted to inferno conditions in Purgatory where he has to spend the next 2 billion years writing letters of apology to Mother Theresa all day every day:)
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