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The Postal Service announced plans for the Mother Teresa stamp along with stamps honoring Katharine Hepburn, Negro Leagues Baseball and Cowboys of the Silver Screen.
1 posted on 01/26/2010 9:47:40 AM PST by NYer
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2 posted on 01/26/2010 9:48:17 AM PST by NYer ("Where Peter is, there is the Church." - St. Ambrose of Milan)
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mother theresa’s too good for a stamp.


3 posted on 01/26/2010 9:49:34 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (denial springs eternal.)
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Thought this might interest you.


4 posted on 01/26/2010 9:50:39 AM PST by NYer ("Where Peter is, there is the Church." - St. Ambrose of Milan)
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Interesting that the Mother Theresa critics quoted in this article didn't bring up her ties to the Duvalier family, and her endorsement of them.

The Duvaliers were one of the reasons that Haiti now rots in poverty.

6 posted on 01/26/2010 9:53:09 AM PST by GunRunner
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I can’t think of a LESS polarizing figure than Mother Teresa.


7 posted on 01/26/2010 9:55:47 AM PST by Dan Middleton
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I find it interesting that atheists always seem to snipe at those who do good, while failing to do good themselves.


8 posted on 01/26/2010 9:56:06 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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Given their history, one would tend to believe that the FFRF is populated by nothing more than a bunch of whiny, immature adolescents who have nothing better to do than to make other people’s lives as miserable as their own.


9 posted on 01/26/2010 9:56:29 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Pants on the ground pants on the ground lookin like a fool wit yo pants on the ground)
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To: NYer
A prominent atheist organization in America
is attacking Mother Teresa as unworthy
of being honored with a memorial stamp

But The PofshitOTUS is deserving of the Peace Prize

Mother Teresa gave her life
to help those who could not help themselves

What Has Nobama done?

10 posted on 01/26/2010 9:57:24 AM PST by HangnJudge
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If yodeling cowboys and black athletes merit stamps,
then so does Mother Theresa... unless the problem is
that she wasn’t a U.S. citizen. Can non-Americans
be portrayed on U.S. postage?


11 posted on 01/26/2010 9:59:06 AM PST by HelenChicago
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Notice that the article makes careful purpose not to give a name associated with the FFRF.

Lighten up. What atheist group has done more to bring attention to and relief for world?


12 posted on 01/26/2010 10:00:41 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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It would be interesting to know what deep inner failure of the mental apparatus inspired the leftists to fight this stamp.


13 posted on 01/26/2010 10:03:08 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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Polarizing??!!


14 posted on 01/26/2010 10:03:12 AM PST by ottbmare (I could agree wth you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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So has any atheist ever done anything of note?


15 posted on 01/26/2010 10:04:40 AM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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“Everything I Know About Mother Teresa I Learned From Christopher Hitchens”. Required reading in some circles apparently.


18 posted on 01/26/2010 10:08:05 AM PST by lmc12
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“Polarizing Roman Catholic figurehead”????? They’re right on three of the four counts, but aside from a handful of loudmouth bedwetters, who finds Mother Teresa “polarizing?”


19 posted on 01/26/2010 10:09:31 AM PST by IronJack (=)
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I'm still waiting for the Jack Elam stamp.

26 posted on 01/26/2010 10:21:06 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Just a reminder to everyone: most atheists do not belong to any sort of organization, and these organizations do not represent the views of most atheists. This atheist, for one, certainly thinks that Mother Teresa is deserving of being honored on a stamp.


27 posted on 01/26/2010 10:26:23 AM PST by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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31 posted on 01/26/2010 10:40:35 AM PST by ari-freedom (Obamacare: nananana nananana hey hey hey goodbye!)
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To: NYer
What I would like to know is by what view of reality and knowledge these atheists presume that there is anything like an objective criterion of value by which to find Mother Teresa as "unworthy of being honored".

In a universe where there is supposedly, "at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference", as Dawkins put it, what grounds do they have for presupposing and asserting non-material values (ideals of "worth" and "honor") in a valueless, materialistic universe that is the result of nothing but time and chance, and blind to values?

Why should anybody take their arbitrary and inconsistent neurological reactions (which on their own account are nothing but the result of time plus chance) as if they amounted to anything at all, much less anything rational?

Cordially,

45 posted on 01/26/2010 11:27:35 AM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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A prominent atheist organization in America...............

Is there really such a thing?

55 posted on 01/26/2010 6:24:13 PM PST by Viking83
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