Mother Teres Fraudulent Role Model

Lisette Elise Paris
CWV 101
01/19/14
Instructor Matt Hampton MOTHER TERESA: FRIEND OR FOE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH? INTRODUCTION

I have chosen the personage Mother Teresa for this worldview essay. In explaining her worldview, there will be an attempt to compare her belief system with my own. While explaining her family values, how she viewed and utilized money and career, and her social issues, I will in the process compare these with my own personal belief system, and why I have decided that she is a fraudulent role model. The reason why I have chosen to write about her is because though she appeared to be performing Christian acts; her views and work have made her into a polarizing figure in academic circles.
She founded the Missionaries of Charities to answer Jesus’ entreaty. Within several years time, she frequently asked American millionaires for money – and received it. There is a saying: behind every great fortune is a great crime. I understand that millionaires, of course, have plenty of money. But did Mother Theresa have to ask and receive money from criminals such as Charles Keating, Baby Doc Duvalier, and The Rockefeller Foundation? Of course the latter organization’s goal and purpose is to give away money. However, the patriarch of the Rockefellers stole oil rights from widows and their
Mother Teresa appeared to be attracted to pain and suffering – and dirt and disease. She claimed that to be poor and sick was “God’s Gift” and that one is blessed if one is suffering. She appears to me as a character out of a crime library file, and he psychological make-up someone who enjoys the suffering of others. She believed that pain “was like the Kiss of Christ on the Cross” an analogy I find odious and puzzling. She told a volunteer that there was “no point” in sterilizing needles, and would wash them under a cold water tap. (Futile Democracy).
Fourthly, her pandering to the rulers of Haiti, the Duvalier’s, as well as Charles Keating, of the Savings and Loan debacle, makes her positively repellent in my eyes, and calls to mind a type of indulgence – these people clearly wanted to wash their terrible sins away.
In this Role Model Essay, I have chosen Mother Teresa as someone whose perception as a Role Model must be questioned. I do not believe that she adhered to a Christian World View. I’ve compared my experience of being a loving daughter; a pacifist who understands that war has several evils; and how I know that a rich person’s guilt, by giving away money, can never go away. I finally stated how I disagreed with Mother Teresa’s care of the sick and the needy, during her citizenship