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crazyfingers · 10-07-2002, 08:44 AM

<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2299217.stm" target="_blank">Mother Teresa's 'miracle' challenged</a>

<a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=24101160" target="_blank">Teresa 'miracle' under scanner</a>

Bible Humper · 10-07-2002, 09:11 AM

ROFLMAO, poor Karol really has to do anything it takes to make her a saint considering the way he has behaved like a saint factory during his pontificate and here is someone that the world expects to be sainted.

The saint standard seems to be much lower these days than the amazing days of Genevieve when battling demons and flying around were pretty standard activities if you were saint material. Nowadays its enough for some credulous peasant to get cured of her ailment in the hospital, put a photo of Mother Theresa on your stomach, and proclaim to the world this wonderous healing miracle! Wow, the tumor is gone! Who wudda thunk it!

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Jayhawker Soule · 10-07-2002, 09:19 AM

This, from the first reference, is the chilling effect of such claims ...

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The doctors say that if the story of the miracle gets what they describe as undue publicity, illiterate and poor villagers may stop taking medical treatment for their maladies and seek miracle cures.

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galiel · 10-07-2002, 11:31 AM

Given the unanswered questions about serious financial shenanigans on Mother Theresa's part, her courtship of dictators and defense of convicted white collar felons, poor sanitation, amateur and aly diagnoses of critical illnesses and refusal to administer pain medication in her clinics (despite Mother Theresa herself receiving the best of care in Geneva clinics), and other examples of hypocrisy at best, criminal venality at worst,

this latest miracle crap is hardly the worst of it.

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Bible Humper Veteran Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,125	ROFLMAO, poor Karol really has to do anything it takes to make her a saint considering the way he has behaved like a saint factory during his pontificate and here is someone that the world expects to be sainted. The saint standard seems to be much lower these days than the amazing days of Genevieve when battling demons and flying around were pretty standard activities if you were saint material. Nowadays its enough for some credulous peasant to get cured of her ailment in the hospital, put a photo of Mother Theresa on your stomach, and proclaim to the world this wonderous healing miracle! Wow, the tumor is gone! Who wudda thunk it! [ October 07, 2002: Message edited by: Bible Humper ]</p>

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galiel Banned Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Eastern Massachusetts Posts: 1,677	Given the unanswered questions about serious financial shenanigans on Mother Theresa's part, her courtship of dictators and defense of convicted white collar felons, poor sanitation, amateur and aly diagnoses of critical illnesses and refusal to administer pain medication in her clinics (despite Mother Theresa herself receiving the best of care in Geneva clinics), and other examples of hypocrisy at best, criminal venality at worst, this latest miracle crap is hardly the worst of it.

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