Long article in Time magazine revealing the doubts and problems of Mother Teresa. Bless her heart, but she is probably the epitomy of a "good person doing her good works" that is as lost in Bablyon as they come.
The following quote:
"Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear."
— Mother Teresa to the Rev. Michael Van Der Peet, September 1979
It is clear that she has no understanding of Jesus Christ and lived a life steeped in bondage.
Another excerpt from the article:
"The smile," she writes, is "a mask" or "a cloak that covers everything." Similarly, she wonders whether she is engaged in verbal deception. "I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God — tender, personal love," she remarks to an adviser. "If you were [there], you would have said, 'What hypocrisy.'" Says the Rev. James Martin, an editor at the Jesuit magazine America and the author of My Life with the Saints, a book that dealt with far briefer reports in 2003 of Teresa's doubts: "I've never read a saint's life where the saint has such an intense spiritual darkness. No one knew she was that tormented."
She was completely wrapped up in the deception of religion, and we should all learn from her spiritual blindness.
One more great quote on religion:
Says Christopher Hitchens, author of The Missionary Position, a scathing polemic on Teresa, and more recently of the atheist manifesto God Is Not Great: "She was no more exempt from the realization that religion is a human fabrication than any other person, and that her attempted cure was more and more professions of faith could only have deepened the pit that she had dug for herself."
Hitchens is a professing atheist, but he nails religion and the deep, deep bondage it can get you into perfectly. Just like the bondage the Israelites had in Egypt where they cried out in misery to God, but still could not get Egypt out of their hearts.
Do not get me wrong I realize the loneliness and flesh ripping experience of the wilderness and the called out, but the truth anchors me when I gather myself. People deceived by religion have no truth to anchor too.
CIY