Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

This is totally off topic, but a case actually can be made to say that Mother Teresa did some shitty things.

She basically said that poverty is good and can bring you closer to Jesus. That you shouldn't try and make yourself better, but instead embrace it and accept it. Much of the money she raised went to spreading Catholocism and not to fixing problems. It is well documented that she raised money for one cause, and used that money for other things. She raised tons of money for hospices and convents for nuns, while not addressing why these people were poverty stricken or ill.

She should have used her power to raise money for hospitals, for buying vaccines for common illnesses. She should have put money toward schools to teach these poverty stricken areas and allow people to get out. For teaching these communities how to heal and preven illness. She felt it was more important to have Bibles and churches in an area than a hospital. She taught people that birth control was wrong which helped facilitate STDs like HIV as well as more children that couldn't be taken care of. She also spoke out against abortion.