Posted on 06/18/2010 3:59:37 PM PDT by mlizzy
"Joy is the net by which you capture souls."
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." --Mother Teresa"I used to censor myself...now I wake up and ask myself 'Who do I hate today?'"
"Tell [the Jews] to get the hell out of Palestine..." --Helen Thomas
It is interesting to note how two woman from such similar humble beginnings could one end up so bitter and the other one so sweet. Is it because one kept her humility and religion while the other traded it for prejudice and feminism? Is it because Teresa realized you cannot be both against poverty and for abortion while Thomas did not? Yes, but it is best summed up by saying that because Mother Teresa decided to blindly follow Jesus she grew to actually see the Light (and thus to know the Truth) whereas Ms. Thomas, in falling in love with radical feminism, became blinded to the true Light and followed the Prince of Darkness instead. And nowhere was this more evident than their views on Jews and the Middle East.
Again, we must start by remembering that when the White House's war against Iraq was about to commence, Teresa and Thomas were both among President Bush's most verbal opponents. Both woman protested against an unnecessary war and the potential loss of innocent life, but Mother Teresa, seeing "W's" firm stance against abortion, realized George would never deliberately kill innocent civilians, whereas Thomas actually believed that the war in Iraq was started in order that Bush could accomplish this offense. This lie was recently repeated when Helen accused Israel of "deliberately massacring" the occupants of the Turkish "humanitarian aid" ship, when live video showed this flotilla sentiment to be not only false, but ridiculous. Ironically, it is only due to our own President's suspicious new coolness to our once strongest Middle Eastern ally that the former head of the White House Press Corps was able to hang around long enough to make those fateful comments on RabbiLive.com, and finally hang herself so completely that even Obama (whom Helen recently named the most media-manipulative president she had ever covered, and that list goes back to Jack Kennedy) had to tell her (behind closed doors, of course) to get the hell out of here.
And yet, when we talk about legacies, even a seasoned journalist like Thomas will admit to the fact that a picture is worth a thousand words. And the picture that is most etched upon my mind is their faces; the once homely face of (now) Blessed Teresa of Calcutta becoming "something beautiful for God," while the never very pretty mug of Ms.Thomas now evolving into something akin to the facial skin of the wicked witch on the Wizard of Oz. One only hopes that Helen can look at herself in the mirror before she melts--or burns.
woman=women
Mother Theresa = Saint
Helen Thomas = Hopgoblin
That's a terrible thing to say! It makes me almost ashamed to me a Freeper! Honestly, why would you want to demean hobgoblins that way? What have hobgoblins ever don't to you?
Ping!
Amen to your words, and to the Word of God.
I can't remember who the Saint was, but could smell souls and some she could not be around because of the ghastly odor. Do you recall her?I'm not sure of a female saint, Irisshlass, but NYer, I believe, mentioned on another post that St. John Vianney could smell the "stench of sin" on a particular woman.
< Helen Thomas = Hopgoblin >
“That’s a terrible thing to say! It makes me almost ashamed to me a Freeper! Honestly, why would you want to demean hobgoblins that way? What have hobgoblins ever don’t to you?”
LOL! ROFL!
Maybe it was St. John Vianney, but a remember a female saint, I’ll have to research it when I get some time. Thanks :)
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