Such
propagation of blind faith, illiteracy and fundamentalism without questioning
logic is what takes humanity down. When I was really young,
and though even then I never believed in God, we used to celebrate Saraswati Puja as a part of our local club’s
annual ritual! My father had told me that we must not use the entire surplus
from the Puja to buy cricket kits etc for our
club. He insisted that we must also do some good work, like donating to Mother
Teresa. And like an obedient son, to get over the guilt of buying a cricket
bat, half of the said surplus was donated to Missionaries of Charity. I still
have that letter of thanks from Nirmal Hriday (earlier called Mother Teresa’s
Kalighat Home for the Dying Destitutes). As I look back, I find probably that’s
the only purpose Mother ever served. For
all the Western capitalists and countries full of guilt of exploiting the rest
of the world and doing precious nothing for them, she was a Western symbol of
altruism –
promoting whom, made them feel less guilty of their unending craving for self
gratification. So all shades of moneyed people used her… And she used them in
turn happily. There were billionaire frauds and scamsters who felt guiltfree
donating to her; and she actually paid them back by giving character
certificates to them (she
actually wrote to the judge trying the ponzi king Charles Keating, in support
of him). And
of course, to the conservative, autocratic, Catholic church she served far
more. To them, she was the unsuspecting global ambassador of fundamentalism.
Behind whom they could promote more of their uneducated, evidence-less
fanaticism. No wonder then, that post her global recognition, she hardly spent
time in Kolkata. Despite her claims of being non political, she spent the rest
of her life hobnobbing with politicians and most importantly supporting them. They included politicians of all
shades, from criminals like Haitian President to dictatorial murderers like the
Albanian President to global political war mongers in the name of democracy
like Ronald Reagan to the radical criminals forces of Nicaraguan contras.
And of course, these travel sojourns around
the world were in a private jet given to her by another corrupt politician
through his ill gotten moneys. The question then is, do I
consider Mother an evil human being without goodness. No. That’s not true. Like
the Bronze Age men who wrote all our religious books, she was probably good
hearted. With her limited knowledge and blind beliefs, she did try to do very
good work. But a lot of what she sure did and propagated, like what’s written
in all our religious books, was harmful for mankind.
From
stoning your disobedient son to death, to killing your wife for infidelity to
marrying your rapist, you name an evil and I will show you a religious book
with a moral guideline justifying that evil. I am
sure men who propagated the Indian evil called Sati also
thought they were doing good for the woman and saving her from the eyes of
lecherous men post the death of her husband by burning her alive her in the
same pyre. But the fact is, these are all medieval and shameful
commandments of illiterates. So
was the Mother, when she said poverty is a gift of God and nothing could be
done about it. That
was her basic premise as she insisted that she was not a social worker but a
messenger of Jesus whose main aim was to spread Christianity. Apart from the
fact that in today’s age and time, anyone trying to spread religion is contempt
worthy and is basically trying to divide the world on the basis of the
evidence-less so called stupid moral guidelines of their God, she was
completely wrong with her logic about poverty. Poverty is man-made. It’s created
through exploitation of the marginalized and there is a lot that people can do
against it; the last thing they need to do is stupidly accept poverty as a gift
of God. Poverty is created by heartless and criminal politicians and it helps
them rule nations. This basic tenet of Mother was the greatest proof of her
lack of education and understanding of the world, however good a human being
she might have been. But
it doesn’t stop there. For her, the sole aim was literally to help the poor die
instead of saving them. How else could one explain the compete lack of
scientific facilities in her clinic despite unbelievable amounts of donations. The best painkiller she would give to
even those in unbelievable pain caused by cancer was aspirin. People were operated without
anaesthesia and needles were washed in cold water and reused. The aim was
somehow to convert a dying patient into Christianity and then help him die.
They actually secretly baptised dying people irrespective of their religion,
that was the level of her cult’s illiterate fanaticism. People who could be easily cured by
nearly hospitals were not sent there; people who could be easily saved by
antibiotics weren’t given that – so pathetic was her understanding of science
and worth of human lives. If something could be bought
from the market, it wasn’t bought. For the only thing to be used was what came
through donations. So poor were her facilities that no wonder when she fell
ill, she didn’t have the courage to use her own facilities and instead went to
California for her treatment. Her twisted logic and dogma had worse results. In her Nobel Prize winning speech, she
hilariously said that abortions were the biggest threat to peace in the world; and she went around the world
denouncing abortions due to her medieval beliefs. If such imbecile acts weren’t
enough, she went against the use of condoms in
Africa, while people they died of HIV/AIDS. While being
honoured by an international health organization, she actually said AIDS was a
retribution for improper sexual contact. That was her level of dumbed down
religious dogma. While her charity got donations of upwards of an estimated 100
million dollars, her clinics remained in horrible conditions. She could have
easily built many a good hospital but she preferred to spend only less than an
estimated 10 percent of her funds on her work or for the poor. Instead, she
offered prayers and praised Christ when any tragedy struck, for prayers are the best way of doing
nothing while someone else suffers. This was most conspicuous when
she offered nothing else but prayers for Bhopal gas victims. Coming back to her
canonization, nothing could be more ludicrous. Two miracles and two doves?!!
All that’s needed to prove your so called miraculous powers!? That’s nothing
more than a joke. Her sainthood is nothing but the Catholic church returning
the favor that she did to them by being the greatest ambassador of its good
work, thanks to her espousing poverty and living an entire life in a white saree that became the symbol of
Christian altruism and Third World poverty.
The
fact is, miracles never happen. All so called miraculous powers are some kind
of fraud. When there are thousands who fall ill, some who seem incurable get
cured. That’s not a miracle. That’s how the human body works.
Attributing that to someone’s miraculous powers is outright stupid. And the
same happened to the woman who said she had brain tumours and Mother cured her.
The fact is that the woman got cured as her tumors must have been temporary and
curable. And the other miracle attributed to Mother is the most delusionary.
The woman most likely never had cancer in the first place and the church
refused to investigate all that because the story suited their interests. All
stories of her seeing light from the Mother’s picture are bound to be pure
delusions of an affected mind.
What’s
a miracle? You know friends, next time someone claims to have miraculous
powers, ask them to make a severed hand or leg grow back. That’s a miracle.
That never happens. That can never happen. Because that’s science. We don’t see
faith healers in hospitals. Else we wouldn’t need science and doctors. And
that’s why it’s brainless stupidity to celebrate Mother’s miracles and her
sainthood. I wish
media, journalists, and the common man would use their brains more than get
fooled by blind beliefs without questioning the rationale. While celebrating
all the good she did, the media must tell people that there aren’t any saints
on this planet. Yes, there are a few great human beings. And Mother could be
considered one of them. But we must question, how is anyone qualified to make
someone a Saint? And mislead the masses. The irony and injustice of it all is,
you are exalted to a higher echelon only if you had miraculous powers, not
because you strove your life for the poor and the needy. Tragic indeed.
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