Re: Internal Security Watch
Posted: 23 May 2026 09:53
https://x.com/i/status/2057813390127493395
@ramprasad_c
Rubio is visiting the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. Sergio Gor was there just days ago, reflecting on Mother Teresa's "legacy of service." It is a good time to revisit what that her legacy actually was.
Christopher Hitchens spent years investigating Mother Teresa. He wrote a book about it, "The Missionary Position," testified as devil's advocate in her beatification, and produced a documentary called "Hell's Angel." YouTube link in next post.
His central conclusion: "Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty."
She glorified suffering rather than alleviating it. Her facilities in Kolkata were called houses of the dying, not houses of the curing. Patients with treatable conditions were not given proper medical care. Needles were reused without sterilization. Pain medication was withheld or barely administered. As Hitchens documented, she told a patient suffering unbearable pain from terminal cancer: "You are suffering like Christ on the cross. So Jesus must be kissing you."
The money was never the issue. Hitchens pointed out that she had immense quantities of money and material at her disposal. Millions flowed in from donors across the world. Where did it go? Not into medical equipment. Not into painkillers. Not into training. The conditions in her facilities remained deliberately austere while the donations piled up.
And the donors themselves tell a story. Hitchens documented that she accepted over a million dollars from Charles Keating, the savings and loan fraudster who was later convicted for swindling elderly investors out of their life savings. When Keating went to trial, she wrote to the judge asking for clemency. The prosecutor wrote back, politely explaining that the money Keating gave her was stolen, and asked her to return it. She never replied. She never returned the money.
She praised Haiti's Duvalier dictatorship, a regime responsible for the torture and murder of thousands, and accepted their Legion d'Honneur. She endorsed Albania's Enver Hoxha. As Hitchens put it, she was "a friend to the worst of the rich"
Then there was the conversion apparatus. Former nuns from the Missionaries of Charity described being instructed to secretly baptize the dying, asking patients if they wanted a "ticket to heaven" and wiping their foreheads with a wet cloth that doubled as baptismal water, whispering the words of the sacrament. Hindus and Muslims were baptized without informed consent on their deathbeds.
Hitchens summed it up: she spent her life "opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."
None of this is bigotry. This is not an attack on Christianity or on faith. Jesus, as the Gospels record him, drove money lenders out of the temple. He railed against the wealthy and the hypocritical. He healed the sick. He did not tell them their suffering was beautiful. He did not take money from fraudsters and appeal on their behalf. The criticism of Mother Teresa is not a criticism of Christ. If anything, it is a defense of what Christ actually taught.
In today's world, she would have been exposed. The conditions in her facilities would have been filmed and uploaded as Insta reels. The financial secrecy would have triggered investigations. The secret baptisms would have been a scandal. She would have been compared to the evangelical faith healers and god men who promise miracles while collecting donations from the desperate.
But she operated in an era before that kind of scrutiny existed, and the mythology is set in stone. Hitchens was one of the few who did. He paid for it with public outrage. But the record he assembled remains unanswered.
@ramprasad_c
Rubio is visiting the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. Sergio Gor was there just days ago, reflecting on Mother Teresa's "legacy of service." It is a good time to revisit what that her legacy actually was.
Christopher Hitchens spent years investigating Mother Teresa. He wrote a book about it, "The Missionary Position," testified as devil's advocate in her beatification, and produced a documentary called "Hell's Angel." YouTube link in next post.
His central conclusion: "Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty."
She glorified suffering rather than alleviating it. Her facilities in Kolkata were called houses of the dying, not houses of the curing. Patients with treatable conditions were not given proper medical care. Needles were reused without sterilization. Pain medication was withheld or barely administered. As Hitchens documented, she told a patient suffering unbearable pain from terminal cancer: "You are suffering like Christ on the cross. So Jesus must be kissing you."
The money was never the issue. Hitchens pointed out that she had immense quantities of money and material at her disposal. Millions flowed in from donors across the world. Where did it go? Not into medical equipment. Not into painkillers. Not into training. The conditions in her facilities remained deliberately austere while the donations piled up.
And the donors themselves tell a story. Hitchens documented that she accepted over a million dollars from Charles Keating, the savings and loan fraudster who was later convicted for swindling elderly investors out of their life savings. When Keating went to trial, she wrote to the judge asking for clemency. The prosecutor wrote back, politely explaining that the money Keating gave her was stolen, and asked her to return it. She never replied. She never returned the money.
She praised Haiti's Duvalier dictatorship, a regime responsible for the torture and murder of thousands, and accepted their Legion d'Honneur. She endorsed Albania's Enver Hoxha. As Hitchens put it, she was "a friend to the worst of the rich"
Then there was the conversion apparatus. Former nuns from the Missionaries of Charity described being instructed to secretly baptize the dying, asking patients if they wanted a "ticket to heaven" and wiping their foreheads with a wet cloth that doubled as baptismal water, whispering the words of the sacrament. Hindus and Muslims were baptized without informed consent on their deathbeds.
Hitchens summed it up: she spent her life "opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."
None of this is bigotry. This is not an attack on Christianity or on faith. Jesus, as the Gospels record him, drove money lenders out of the temple. He railed against the wealthy and the hypocritical. He healed the sick. He did not tell them their suffering was beautiful. He did not take money from fraudsters and appeal on their behalf. The criticism of Mother Teresa is not a criticism of Christ. If anything, it is a defense of what Christ actually taught.
In today's world, she would have been exposed. The conditions in her facilities would have been filmed and uploaded as Insta reels. The financial secrecy would have triggered investigations. The secret baptisms would have been a scandal. She would have been compared to the evangelical faith healers and god men who promise miracles while collecting donations from the desperate.
But she operated in an era before that kind of scrutiny existed, and the mythology is set in stone. Hitchens was one of the few who did. He paid for it with public outrage. But the record he assembled remains unanswered.
