Posted on 09/01/2007 4:36:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Faith is apparently the buzzword of the moment, as the wolf-pack media attacks a world-renowned figure's religious resolve while, at least for now, giving another major female a pass on the political motivations of her publicized beliefs.
Time magazine's Aug. 23 article "Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith" posits that Mother Teresa's dedication to God wasn't exactly what it seemed. Atheist Christopher Hitchens, author of the anti-Mother Teresa book "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice" (Verso, 1997), embraced the hype, heralding her as a fellow unbeliever. And one seemingly clueless blogger for the Chicago Tribune asked: "Can saints have bad days?"
Um, yes.
Time began its expose with this quote from one of the many letters written by Mother Teresa, which are found in the new book "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light" (Doubleday): "Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness are so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear."
Of course she felt empty once in a while. She dealt with people's suffering -- the poorest of the poor -- and the most debilitating and isolating of illnesses, which sometimes made her wonder how God could let such pain exist. Shocking? Not quite.
Try "human."
In one of her letters to a spiritual director found in the book, she wrote: "Now Father -- since '49 or '50 this terrible sense of loss -- this untold darkness -- this loneliness this continual longing for God -- which gives me that pain deep down in my heart -- Darkness is such that I really do not see -- neither with my mind nor with my reason -- the place of God in my soul is blank ..." The chattering class reacts with shock, as if they were encountering a senator in a public bathroom sliding his foot into the next stall. Apparently, the chatterers have never encountered the term "Doubting Thomas," Saint Augustine or actual believers. Apparently they have never seen the words of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, who at the hour of his death cried out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Christians believe faith to be a great gift -- one that, among other things, helps to explain the unexplainable. The fact that there can be challenges and dark nights is not press-stopping news.
DEMOCRATIC RELIGION
I wonder whether the media will be as aggressive as it looks at what seems to be newfound religion among Democratic presidential front-runners.
In a recent debate, Democratic candidates were asked about their spiritual lives. There were some cliches and some sincerity. But there was also the suggestion of a life of deep prayer.
Paul Kengor, author of the new book "God and Hillary Clinton: A Spiritual Life" (Harper), suggests that Hillary Clinton is a believer. And that possibility will present major challenges to media folk.
Kengor tells me: "Hillary is going to put the dominant media in a real bind. After telling us repeatedly that the faith of a politician should be kept private, or doesn't matter, or shouldn't be part of the public square, the secular press will now need to backtrack as it discovers that the Democratic front-runners are religious folks desperately in need of the 2000 and 2004 values voters."
So, after the initial freak out, Kengor predicts the media will adapt: "As Hillary gets the nomination, secular liberals will suddenly get religion." But don't expect an apology from the media about its double-standard approach toward a party's religious views. Just as it suddenly professed a newfound respect for Catholic bishops in the 1980s for denouncing Ronald Reagan's nuclear policies, the media "will once again be supportive of faith in the public square, but only selectively," Kengor says.
No.
Hillary is a Marxist and as such by definiton godless.
There can be no comparison between Hillary and Mother Teresa - the former is all about herself and her advancement, the latter was dedicated to serve the Lord through laboring for the unfortunate. No comparison at all ...
Yet for some reason the old media never have problems with atheists expounding at long length about religious beliefs. Fascinating.
Mother Teresa didn’t have a philandering husband and she didn’t kill Vince or Ron. I see NO similarities. Mother Teresa devoted her life to GOOD THINGS for the poor of Calcutta. She never put herself first. Hillary doesn’t deserve to be used in the same sentence with M. Teresa! And I am NOT Catholic, but I have alway ssaid Mother Teresa is the greatest person who has ever lived in modern times.
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It’s been my direct experience in life that...
the one thing The LOVE Itself needs more of in this world,
...for GOD is LOVE,
...is more LOVE.
And that only comes when...
...people are FREE..!!!
Making our Hero American Soldiers instruments of GOD’s LOVE for US on the Earth,
...putting a broad Smile on GOD’s Face in the Process.
This is why we lovingly support them...
and their Freedom Mission.
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..vs..
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HILLARY’s support of Communist North Vietnam’s takeover of a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War ..horridly brought down upon the innocents:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
..”JOURNEY from the FALL”.. MoviePremieres = Fall of Saigon CLARITY..
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What price is left for the still Free (that’s US) to pay now...
..in a new time of war
..in a new century
..with our own Freedom
..directly at stake
..right here at home..?
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Signed:..”ALOHA RONNIE” Guyer
~Pro-Freedom Citizen Activist 1997-2007
~Veteran-1st Major Battles for Freedom of the Vietnam War 1965-1966
(Photos)
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http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
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NEVER FORGET
The challenge will be to call her a believer with a straight face.
If there ever was a title that literally screams for a "barf" alert, this is the one.
Make that a "double barf"
Mother Teresa sought and accepted illegal campaign cash from the Chicoms - twice? I don't recall...
Where do atheists come into this? Hillary is a member of the United Methodist Church.
Or is it Democrat == atheist?
Hillary may be a member of a church, but she worships government of the Marxist sect.
I think many people have more faith in Mother Teresa even though she’s gone than they do in God their Creator and Redeemer. Wonder if she can save them.
she was and is a friend of mine, everything she did she adverted to her Lord and Savior. Don’t confuse esteem and worship.
Most leftist politicians who claim to be religious worship strange gods. They believe in Jesus the Welfare Pimp or God the Senile Grandfather.
“Mother Teresa and Hillary Clinton” comparing these two is blasphemy.
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