There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ's Passion

[tenderfoot]

That's a quote from Mother Teresa.

I was wondering if this sums up Republican policies of the past 40 years?

Sure seems like it.

Your thoughts?

[bahboo]

1. my thoughts...fuck this shit....

let the haves be genuinely poor for a week, and see how their minds might change....

[lunatica]

4. And let them suffer the ramifications of that short poverty

Like not being able to pay for college or being unable to own a home or a car or watching their kids lose out on any advantage.

The long term economic ramifications are worse than the poverty that create them.

[Marcuse]

2. Endeavor to Persevere

I wore this frock coat to Washington before The War. We wore them because we belonged to the five civilized tribes. We dressed ourselves up like Abraham Lincoln.

You know, we got to see the Secretary of the Interior. And he said, "Boy, you boys sure look civilized."

He congratulated us and he gave us medals for looking so civilized.

We told him about how our land had been stolen and how our people were dying. When we finished he shook our hands and said, "endeavor to persevere!"

They stood us in a line: John Jumper, Chili McIntosh, Buffalo Hump, Jim Buckmark, and me — I am Lone Watie. They took our pictures. And the newspapers said, "Indians vow to endeavor to persevere."

We thought about for a long time. "Endeavor to persevere." And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.[link:https://reason.com/2012/08/31/forget-clint-eastwood-what-about-lone-wa/|

[tenderfoot]

5. why are you posting an article from Libertarian Reason?

And what does it have to do with the OP?

[Marcuse]

8. A fictional account of the dispossessed not accepting oppression. Nothing more.

[tenderfoot]

14. Libertarianism does only seem to work in fiction rather than reality

[ProfessorGAC]

11. It's Actually A Scene From...

..."The Outlaw Josie Wales".
It's the story told by Dan George's character when he first meets Wales.
It's not really from Reason.
Not wanting to click on the link to their website, I don't know why they quoted that scene.

[msongs]

3. mother theresa spent a fortune on her jet setting celebrity nt

[Grokenstein]

6. There's something even more beautiful in seeing the poor rise up

and destroy the obscenely-wealthy, who want the poor to fight over their table scraps for their amusement.

[Sibelius Fan]

7. Mother Teresa sucked.

[smirkymonkey]

16. She really did.

Christopher Hitchens wrote a [critical] book about her called "The Missionary Position" years ago. His basic premise was to show that Mother Teresa was "less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs."

She was quite a hypocrite as well denying the suffering and dying under her care any comfort or pain relief, however when she became ill, she availed herself of the best care modern medicine had to offer. And there's more.

Anyway, she was a ghastly woman.

[Goodheart]

9. Mother Teresa was a scam, so yeah... just like a Republican.

[NewHendoLib]

10. my thoughts? Fuck. All. Republicans.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

12. Odd thing about this coming up about Mother Teresa.

From the time I first heard of her and how good she was or holy or whatever she was claimed to be I never trusted her.

I never knew why but maybe I know why now.

[Deuxcents]

13. I grew up in an Evangelical home

Yeah..been thru it all. I long ago left it behind .. “ the mind is everything. What you think you become”. Buddha teaches that we are blessed with a brain and we should use it. I am of no religious affliction but do read about other teachings. Seems most have some promise of eternal after life.. and then there’s “ dust to dust and ashes to ashes”.

[Mariana]

15. Mother Teresa thought suffering was a beautiful thing

as long as it was other people's suffering. Mother Teresa wasn't interested in doing any suffering herself. The poor people in her death house were denied pain relief, but when she was sick, she sought out the best medical treatment money could buy.

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. Why do people get off on trashing Mother Teresa ?

She was an Albanian nun that went to Calcutta in1928 to try and help the untouchables in the worst hellhole on earth.

There were no hospitals, no doctors, no medicine, no pwer, no running water, no clean water. All she could do was pick people dying of horrible diseases up and get them someplace where they could receive some care as they died.

Later other people came to help. Much later she started getting donations from everywhere but she didn't get the money. The Holy See was in charge of doling out funds.
And she traveled but people in her position travel a lot.

Her philosophy on death and dying seems strange today but it wasn't strange for 1928 when people didn't have medical care and they just died if they got sick.

Please. Take the time to really research her life before you criticize.

Read other sources beside Christopher Hitchens' hatchet job. He is not a valid source. A professional athiest and provocateur is not a valid source. Especially when there is so much other information available.