Quotes from “Mother” Teresa (12/4/89 Time , pp. 11 & 13)
“These people are waiting to die. What are you telling them to prepare them for death and eternity? She replied candidly, ‘We tell them to pray to their Bhagwan, to their gods.’”
She was instructing these staunch Hindus to pray sincerely to their own Hindu idols and she felt that if they did this, God would certainly not judge them! No matter how plausible from man’s earthly vantage point, when good works are conducted by unregenerate religious people, what is promoted is a cursed false gospel, encouraging the lost heathen to have hope in their false gods, even as they lay upon their death beds. In God’s eyes, therefore, the entire endeavor is a cursed one, and no Christian should support, assist, or praise a work cursed by God!
The following is from an interview with a Catholic nun, “Sister” Ann, who worked in Kathmandu, Nepal, with “Mother” Teresa’s organization Missionaries of Charity. The interview was conducted 11/23/84 at the Pashupati Temple.
Q: Do you believe if they die believing in Shiva or in Ram [Hindu gods] they will go to heaven?
A: Yes, that is their faith. My own faith will lead me to God, ... So if they have believed in their god very strongly, if they have faith, surely they will be saved.
Q: Today it does not seem that the Catholic Church is trying to convert anymore. I know that John Paul II is saying now that those of other religions are saved. You do not believe they are lost anyway, right?
A: No, they are not lost. They are saved according to their faith, you know. If they believe whatever they believe, that is their salvatio
“Mother” Teresa could be called both a pantheist and a Universalist— because of this statement, but she could not be called a Christian of any stripe
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God have mercy.