Rosa Parks vs Mother Teresa

[Robert_S]

Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa -- Justice vs. Charity


On Thursday the Washington National Cathedral dedicated a new stone carving of Rosa Parks. It will be displayed in the Cathedral's Human Rights Porch.

The area already includes likenesses of Oscar Romero, the brave Catholic Archbishop of El Salvador, who spoke out against the U.S. for giving military aid to his country's military junta and was killed in 1980 for his activism with workers and peasants fighting the regime; Eleanor Roosevelt, who came from a privileged background but used her position as first lady to be an ally with unions, civil rights groups, feminists, and other progressive movements; and John T. Walker, the first African American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and an activist who was an ally of South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu and was once arrested at a protest rally against apartheid at the South African Embassy.

In a piece about the event broadcast on Saturday, National Public Radio's Scott Simon reported that the statue of Parks was commissioned along with a carving of Mother Teresa that will be dedicated later this year.

"They may have much to talk about," Simon proclaimed at the end of the four-minute segment.

A conversation between Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa would indeed be interesting. But it would probably not go along the lines that Simon's glib comment implied, as if the seamstress and the nun shared a common approach to addressing the world's ills. In fact, the statement on the National Cathedral's website, that Parks and Mother Teresa belong in an area honoring "those who struggle to bring equality and social justice to all people" is incredibly misleading. Parks certainly fits that description, but Mother Teresa most certainly does not.

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[Ayaan]

Rosa Parks worked to stop an injustice. Mother Teresa gloried suffering and pain, and her acolytes continue to do so. Rosa Parks would smack Teresa upside the head for treating fellow human beings in such an appalling manner.

[amused]

Rosa Parks worked to stop an injustice. Mother Teresa gloried suffering and pain, and her acolytes continue to do so. Rosa Parks would smack Teresa upside the head for treating fellow human beings in such an appalling manner.

Yup. According to The Hitch, "Mother" Teresa believed that the pain and suffering of other people brought her closer to her god.

An evil little bitch that enjoys suffering, and priests that inflict suffering on little boys.*

Religion at its finest!



*Which of course, as we all know, whether we want to admit it or not, and if you don't admit it then you're obviously part of the problem, reflects the basic attitude of all catlicks everywhere, every single one, past, present, and future with no exceptions because it's just easier to paint with a broad brush.

[Bella Fortuna]

Exactly - Hitch's book was an eye-opener for me.

[Audley Strange]

I would not be surprised if one day we find out that Rosa Parks hated the Chinese, was a regular fare dodger and financial supporter of the Vietnam war or something.

[Tyrannical]

Mother Teresa worked to help others, Rosa Park spoke up to help herself.

[Jason]

Mother Teresa stood up for what she believed in. Rosa Parks just sat on her ass.

[FBM]

They were both ultimately self-serving, like everyone else. MT to get her ass into heaven and RP to get hers on the front seat of a bus.

[Tyrannical]

Rosa Parks worked to stop an injustice. Mother Teresa gloried suffering and pain, and her acolytes continue to do so. Rosa Parks would smack Teresa upside the head for treating fellow human beings in such an appalling manner.

Yup. According to The Hitch, "Mother" Teresa believed that the pain and suffering of other people brought her closer to her god.

An evil little bitch that enjoys suffering, and priests that inflict suffering on little boys.*

Religion at its finest!



*Which of course, as we all know, whether we want to admit it or not, and if you don't admit it then you're obviously part of the problem, reflects the basic attitude of all catlicks everywhere, every single one, past, present, and future with no exceptions because it's just easier to paint with a broad brush.

I'm pretty sure that Mother Teresa derived her joy from helping those suffering in pain. Not by inflicting it, or reveling in another's suffering.
You don't really believe that crap that you spout, do you?

[Bella Fortuna]

I would not be surprised if one day we find out that Rosa Parks hated the Chinese, was a regular fare dodger and financial supporter of the Vietnam war or something.

Where's Hitch when you need him, eh?

[Tyrannical]

They were both ultimately self-serving, like everyone else. MT to get her ass into heaven and RP to get hers on the front seat of a bus.

I think MT went above and beyond what she needed to do to get to heaven, at least I hope so

[Robert_S]

I'm pretty sure that Mother Teresa derived her joy from helping those suffering in pain. Not by inflicting it, or reveling in another's suffering.
You don't really believe that crap that you spout, do you?

To the point where she would not lift a finger to do a single damn thing about the source of their pain. She was a pain vampire.

[Svartalf]

Rosa Parks worked to stop an injustice. Mother Teresa gloried suffering and pain, and her acolytes continue to do so. Rosa Parks would smack Teresa upside the head for treating fellow human beings in such an appalling manner.

[Svartalf]

Mother Teresa worked to help others, Rosa Park spoke up to help herself.

Theresa did not so much work to help others as practice self aggrandizement by showing off what the passed for charity... the way that she (and the people under her) treated the poor they were supposed to help was apalling... no humility, no generosity, no empathy.

[Svartalf]

Rosa Parks worked to stop an injustice. Mother Teresa gloried suffering and pain, and her acolytes continue to do so. Rosa Parks would smack Teresa upside the head for treating fellow human beings in such an appalling manner.

Yup. According to The Hitch, "Mother" Teresa believed that the pain and suffering of other people brought her closer to her god.

An evil little bitch that enjoys suffering, and priests that inflict suffering on little boys.*

Religion at its finest!



*Which of course, as we all know, whether we want to admit it or not, and if you don't admit it then you're obviously part of the problem, reflects the basic attitude of all catlicks everywhere, every single one, past, present, and future with no exceptions because it's just easier to paint with a broad brush.

I'm pretty sure that Mother Teresa derived her joy from helping those suffering in pain. Not by inflicting it, or reveling in another's suffering.
You don't really believe that crap that you spout, do you?

Actually, I believe she took joy in suffering, period, in true sado masochist fashion, this stemming from a belief that suffering earned you brownie points to get a seat in heaven.
So she worked to prolong her charges' lives, but not to allay their suffering.