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TIME magazine makes the shocking announcement: Mother Teresa's spiritual life was filled with doubts and darkness.
The atheists and agnostics rejoice. They are right - there is no God. Even Mother Teresa, the holiest of those living in the 20th century, did not really know God, they say.
Teresa's private letters and journals will be available to the public within the next week or two in book form. Letters and journals that she asked to have destroyed instead will be read by millions.
Her life was characterized by extraordinary achievement, bold faith, and perseverance. And also by doubt, fear, and distance from God.
What's the point? Very simple. All of us can say our lives were filled with the latter three (doubt, fear and distance). That is not news. Few can lay claim to the first three (achievement, bold faith and perseverance).
We all have doubts. Let's be honest. We all experience darkness. We just do.
Faith is not entirely reasonable. Faith is not entirely rational. Faith requires a leap. A leap into the arms of a loving God waiting to receive us. But sometimes we simply do not "feel" or "experience" the presence and grace of God. And those times are hard.
Teresa was holy. In fact, the closer she got to God, the more distance she felt. Being human is hard. Being holy is even harder.
But her faith has inspired me. This coming Sunday's show will focus on how her journals may give the greatest teaching moment in our lifetimes about faith. Doubts, testing, darkness, grace. All the substance for a show to remember.
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At least you are more honest than the Ghoul of Calcutta, who never publicly admitted her doubts. So would you call her a hypocrite or a liar for that?
Faith is not at all reasonable. That's why it's called faith. If it were reasonable it'd be called-- wait for it-- reason. I don't mind anyone taking a leap of faith to follow some benign ideology or other, but how can you presume to preach to people, to claim that you have The Truth, or to make ridiculous assertions about the scientific/historical evidences for that faith when you have none?
One good thing that came from Mother Teresa's life- or actually her death- was that she died at around the same time as Princess Diana, and the networks were thus shamed into running her funeral live, which of course no one gave a damn about (despite lip-service to her saintliness), but which made for a delightful bit of postmodern theater, a split screen satellite feed of the absolute vacuity of our pop culture infected souls.
"Ghoul of Calcutta" is an appropriate moniker for her - thank you Christopher Hitchens.
She received millions of dollars in donations, yet the conditions in her orphanages were squalid. She did not even allow the use of pain killers in her homes. How saintly of her.
Again, Allen, do your homework before you pronounce someone "holy". You can start here:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html
Mother Teresa said all are equal before God and stated she'd like to make "Muslims better Muslims, Hindus better Hindus, Catholics better Catholics," etc.
It's good that Mother Teresa had the kind of ethics that compelled her to serve fellow man (humanism in its highest form) even though
she knew that the universe is indifferent, there is no such thing as a god, and that live is nothing more than joyful participation in the suffering of the world. Religion helps to teach the weak and the stupid how to live as social creatures by giving them some 'code ethic' (ten commandments) or character ethic (Jesus) so there's not chaos. Mother Teresa seemed to understand this 'opiate of the masses' concept and she dished it out. 'God is concept by which me measure our pain' John Lennon
The Church has been dying for 500 years? I think not. Christianity continues to grow at a rapid rate around the globe - just not in America and Western Europe where the decay of humanism has begun to set in.
John Lennon will be long gone and forgotten soon. Marx will be around a little longer but mainly just in the American university. Teresa will be a saint.
Best of all, Jesus' name and reputation have endured for 2000 years because He was not a good teacher but rather a Savior. Christianity rides on the death and resurrection of Jesus not on His teaching as an opiate.
Yes, it's a big hit among those who don't know any better.
Meanwhile, here in the land of indoor plumbing, numbers of those identifying as Christian continue to decline.
The point is that if we approach faith simply from an intellectual mindset we are missing the whole story. Faith is about a holistic approach to life - that while includes intellectualism - it also includes experience, tradition, morality, and frankly the unexplained.
I still see nothing in the enlightenment that counteracts faith. So we learned the earth revolves around the sun. Big deal, the Bible never claimed otherwise. We learned that we (*might*) all have a common origin in species. Big deal, the Bible never claimed otherwise. We learned that there are a lot of physical explanations to what we used to label as God (i.e. stars, lighting, storms, etc...). Big deal, it only gives me more of an appreciation of God because He was able to create with such physical majesty. So I still ask the question, what out of the enlightenment has really disproven God?
P.S. My favorite part is in reference to the "Jesus-sarus Rex".