Chances Are That They Are Not Frauds

When a noted religious figure dies, there are many of us atheists who claim that he or she was a fraud or a con-man. Such claims are serious legally and ethically.  They usually involve nefarious intent.  I ask those who easily throw out these terms to think hard about it: do you have hard evidence or it is just your unsupported opinion?  If it is the latter, I suggest avoiding these terms.  Just understanding what this image states is all we need to challenge these folks. To do otherwise puts us in the position to be challenged by them as evil.

One Of The Major Harms From Christianity: Redemptive Suffering

From the beginning of Christianity, through the delusion of the likes of  Mother Teresa, who deliberately failed to screen her patients for treatable medical issues, to the fight against Euthanasia, Christianity has held up as a "Good" the ridiculous notion that suffering is "redemptive" and in union with Jesus' suffering on the cross to "redeem" us from Original Sin, which never took place.

It Wasn't Only Hitchens Who Had Mother Teresa Figured Out

"All I can say after reading all this (Chatterjee and Hitchens were both the formal “Devil’s Advocates” at Mother Teresa’s sainthood vetting) is that any religion that would turn this woman into a Pipeline to God is deeply dysfunctional. As Hitchens says, she is venerated in the West not so much for her actual deeds as for the perception that somebody from the West was doing something tangible to help poor brown people."

Criticism of Mother Teresa: Too little and too late

5 Reasons Why Mother Teresa Was Cringetastic

The Credulity Of NPR Regarding Miracles

"If the Catholic church believes that saints are pipelines to God who can provide special cures, how come prayer to saints hasn’t restored lost eyes or amputated limbs? Why is it only diseases known to spontaneously regress that the incipient (or established) saints can “cure”? Isn’t that a remarkable coincidence?"

NPR touts Mother Teresa’s “miracles”

A Look At Mother Teresa As She Becomes A Saint

"How rational is Catholicism, and how rational is this phony, cooked-up way of declaring that some person gets a special telephone line to God?"

" - - - the legend of Agnes Bojaxhiu is impervious to fact, just as Catholicism itself is impervious to fact."

Mother Teresa And The Making Of Saints

"Some of the Catholic saints, even some of the real biggies, were perfectly dreadful. For starters, a startling number were anti-Semites."

Was Mother Teresa Really ‘Saintly’? 

"Saint" Mother Teresa?

The "Full Monty" on this seriously flawed human being.

Mother Teresa Was No Saint