Earlier this year, @nytimes published this opinion piece on Mother Teresa, including testimony from her flock. It sounds eerily like The Handmaid’s Tale. Goldberg argues that Teresa got away with abusive, anti-female behaviors bc Christianity is normed.
“The Turning” portrays the order of the sainted nun …as a hive of psychological abuse and coercion. It raises the question of whether the difference between a strict monastic community and a cult lies simply in the social acceptability of the operative faith.”
“It opens with a woman, Mary Johnson, hoping to escape the religious order in which she lives. ‘We always went out two by two. We were never allowed just to walk out and do something,’ she explains.”
“‘Mother Teresa took her adherence to frugality and simplicity in her work to extremes, allowing practices like the reuse of hypodermic needles and tolerating primitive facilities that required patients to defecate in front of one another,’” The New York Times reported.”
“Viewed through a contemporary, secular lens, a community built around a charismatic founder and dedicated to the lionization of suffering and the annihilation of female selfhood doesn’t seem blessed and ethereal. It seems sinister.”
“One sister quotes Mother Teresa saying, ‘Love, to be real, has to hurt.’ If you heard the same words from any other guru, you’d know where the story was going.”
@nytimes’ Goldberg recognizes the pro-Christian, Orientalist bias that protects Teresa’s legacy, despite the evidence
@nytimes’ Goldberg recognizes the pro-Christian, Orientalist bias that protects Teresa’s legacy, despite the evidence
Apparently Karan Deep Singh didn’t get the memo. You’re on the wrong side of this, buddy.
Of course this is the only kind of coconuttery The New York Times is interested in platforming. People willing to whitewash Gilead as long as it makes Hindus the bad guys.
Of course this is the only kind of coconuttery The New York Times is interested in platforming. People willing to whitewash Gilead as long as it makes Hindus the bad guys.
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