COLETTE LIVERMORE SHOWS THE DANGER OF MOTHER TERESA AND HER IDEOLOGY
Mother Teresa was made a saint.
Bottom line, saying God lets suffering happen and has a plan encourages you to see suffering as a tool with which he makes you good and holy. This is a very warped doctrine and blames those who who cannot accept their suffering and who it does not improve. It's victim blaming. Also, Jesus Christ like Mother Teresa spent more time going on about sin and judgement and Gehenna than anything productive. Teachings except oppressive ones were made very vague and theologians disagree to this day. But he banned females from divorcing despite the fact that most were forced into underage marriages. And he did nothing for anybody and supposedly depended on magical powers to do the helping for him. I am saying that Mother Teresa was evil but she was not formed in a bubble.
Let us look at another witness to the darkness in Mother Teresa. Here is the article covering her account.
Nun spurns Mother Teresa's rule to become an author
from: The Courier-Mail
By Mike O'Connor
December 16, 2008
SHE looks nothing like the nuns who taught me at St Joachim's, those good
sisters who would all but fall to their knees at the approach of a priest.
Colette Livermore, however, spent 11 years within the physical and mental
cloisters of religious life and discovered therein the shadows and demons
which still torment her.
A gifted student who won a university scholarship to study medicine, she
chose instead to follow Mother Teresa and joined the Sisters of Charity.
She now lives in coastal New South Wales and is in town for the day. We meet
in the brasserie at the Stamford Hotel and she relates why she became a nun.
"When I was a kid, the Biafran famine was in the news. Kids were dying on
the television set in front of you. I thought to myself that this couldn't
be right and then I saw a Mother Teresa film and thought: 'That's the way to
go! Get out there and do something!' I was very naive. I didn't appreciate
the implications," she says.
It was not long before she realised that there were two sides to the saintly
persona of Mother Teresa which the media had spun.
"Any organisation that demands you stick to a rigid timetable and do exactly
what you're told is on the road to inhumanity, and I think and that was the
problem," she says.
"Mother Teresa asked you to give up your brain, your will, everything. She
asked for total surrender of the person.
"I grew up in Mossvale on the southern highlands of New South Wales and when
I joined the order I went to Melbourne to the novitiate straight from
school. I was just 18. It was a big change in life.
"Once you're within that sort of organisation, it's hard to get your
bearings. You're off balance because Mother Teresa is a saintly person and
the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and all that sort of thing so you think
that if you disagree with things, there must be something wrong with you
rather than the organisation.
"We did our training and then I was sent to the Gulf province of New Guinea
without any warning or preparation and nearly died of cerebral malaria.
"I was there for a few years and then transferred to Manila and worked in a
garbage dump looking after people with tuberculosis. I wasn't even trained
to the level of a barefoot doctor."
From Manila, Livermore was sent to Calcutta and it was there she tried and
failed to leave the order. "You're always told that you're sinful and proud
and all that sort of thing. It played with my mind. I realised things
weren't right but I couldn't get any external bearings.
"You're cut off. You can't listen to the radio or read the newspapers or
talk to friends. You have very little contact with your family. Your mind is
only hearing one opinion. There's only one voice speaking. It's difficult to
leave when Mother Teresa is telling you that it's to do with the devil."
Livermore's disaffection with Mother Teresa peaked when she clashed with her
superiors over a decision not to treat sick children on a holy day.
"A ruling was made that on this recollection day, this day of prayer,
children were not to be admitted to the Home for the Children.
"This really sick child came in with stick arms, breathing really fast and
dehydrated and I was told he couldn't stay. I had this internal conflict and
eventually the child was admitted but only after I'd had a big fight.
"These sorts of things happened time and time again because there was this
rigid obedience and timetable, so I wrote to Calcutta and said: 'This can't
be right.'
Mother Teresa's reply was not the one Livermore had hoped for. "She said
that just as Our Lady watched Jesus die, I should be able to accept the
death of a child if obedience asked it of me.
"Then I said: 'That's against the gospel' and they said that even the devil
could quote scripture."
Livermore's portrait of Mother Teresa is of a woman tortured by her own
spirituality.
"It led her to some pretty dark places," she says. "She talked about her
inner emptiness and misery. She said 'Empty yourself of all that's not God.'
She just felt depleted and that's what happened to all of us too."
Livermore's mother, who had been opposed to her joining the order, knew
nothing of this. "My family wasn't aware because you weren't supposed to
tell anyone. It was a secret.
"Mum was disappointed I'd thrown away the chance to do medicine because our
family struggled. My father had left us and she was struggling to support
four kids and for her eldest to take off was hard."
Livermore eventually wrote to Mother Teresa telling her she could no longer
cope.
"She said she thought it was the devil, the Father of Lies, trying to rob me
of my vocation and get me off the track but I couldn't do it any more. It
was screwing my head around. I was 30 and I'd been in there 11 years."
Livermore describes the order as a sect and has written a book, Hope
Endures, chronicling her experiences.
Mother Teresa's mistake, says Livermore, was in thinking that obedience was
more important than compassion.
"That's not something that's widely known and not part of what the media
says about her. It was dictatorial. I should have got out sooner," she says,
shaking her head.
When she finally left, she turned to the medical degree she had spurned when
she joined the sisters and became a doctor, working in Timor, the Northern
Territory, the Congo, Sudan and Darfur.
One casualty of her time with Mother Teresa was her religion.
" I ended up an agnostic," she says. "I just couldn't believe it any more
but if, as when I was in Timor from 2000-2003, you can do something for the
kids, then for some people at least, you can make a difference."
Livermore blames no one but herself for what happened.
"After all," she says, smiling, "no one handcuffed me. It was my own silly
choice. My mother told me I was a drongo but once I was in there, I couldn't
get free.
"That's part of the reason I wrote the book - to tell religious people not
to give up that inner compass that they have. You can't live your life with
all these excluding rules."
She says the problems within the order are exemplified by the nuns' practice
of self-flagellation, whipping themselves to try to imitate Christ's
suffering.
"Suffering comes your way and you have to put up with it but," she says,
"but it's sort of warped to go looking for it."
Hope Endures by Colette Livermore, William Heinemann Australia, $34.95
FACEBOOK POSTS
***********************
Givenomoney2catholicchurch commented on BBC Sunday Morning Live's post.
Mother Teresa and the Paedophile
newstatesman.com
Mother Teresa had no problem if a priest was abusing children. She did not
care.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/nelson-jones/2012/01/mother-teresa-mcguire-abuse
***********************
Givenomoney2catholicchurch commented on BBC Sunday Morning Live's link.
Vatican Prepares for Mother Teresa’s Canonization
ncregister.com
A manmade religion that claims to be from God simply has to end up dodgy. It
already is even if it does not know it. Mother Teresa was about using the
plight of the sick and dying to make Catholicism smell of flowers. And the
evidence that Catholicism is from man and not from God and that there are
problems with Jesus's ethics is overwhelming. I call a religion that won't
update its teaching when new light comes up fundamentalist. Notably there is
no process in Catholicism for dealing with extremists. The Church will not
punish you for shooting abortionists in the name of religion. But it will
give out half hearted meaningless condemnations to keep itself looking good.
***********************
Givenomoney2catholicchurch replied to Brendan Butler's comment.
Vatican Prepares for Mother Teresa’s Canonization
ncregister.com
You help people because they need help and are people and not because you
love God. I would not want somebody helping me who was only doing it for
God.
***********************
Givenomoney2catholicchurch commented on an article.
Pope Francis Proclaims Mother Teresa A Saint
Mother Teresa was the biggest example of somebody who does "good" not good.
The problem is how the Church enables her message and makes her a saint. Pope
Francis and his cronies are passive aggressive in how they ignore the truth. A
religion needs to be condemned more for the evil it opens the door to than what
it does or has done.
***********************
