Comments on: First Amendment, And The Fight For Mother Theresa http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa Powered By A Collective Voice Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:29:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: jcc http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa/comment-page-1#comment-197769 jcc Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:51:10 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=9940#comment-197769 Nick, A certain Mr. Aurelo claims that he is the owner of the photo of Mother Teresa I have copied from Wikipedia. I have no verifiable data that it was his. However, just to addres his concern, please remove the photo of Mother Teresa from the post. Sincerely, JCC Nick,

A certain Mr. Aurelo claims that he is the owner of the photo of Mother Teresa I have copied from Wikipedia. I have no verifiable data that it was his. However, just to addres his concern, please remove the photo of Mother Teresa from the post.

Sincerely,
JCC

]]> By: Joe America http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa/comment-page-1#comment-139842 Joe America Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:00:12 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=9940#comment-139842 Precisely. History is as secular as it gets. It's over. Joe Precisely.

History is as secular as it gets. It’s over.

Joe

]]> By: joma http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa/comment-page-1#comment-139620 joma Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:07:36 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=9940#comment-139620 Joe, Thanks for your reply. "They" is Laurie Gaynor where she is co-president of Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), along with Dan Barker. They are dedicated to the cause of separation between the Church and State (for USA). You may contact them direct and I find them to be responsive. You can ask them directly what good is their cause all about. They is also are community od non-religious, non-believer, agnostics, secularists and atheists. Some of their members are believer in gods, too. In the Philippines, there is also a very miniscule group, but not worth your attention - in the meantime. Joe, Thanks for your reply.
“They” is Laurie Gaynor where she is co-president of Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), along with Dan Barker. They are dedicated to the cause of separation between the Church and State (for USA). You may contact them direct and I find them to be responsive. You can ask them directly what good is their cause all about.

They is also are community od non-religious, non-believer, agnostics, secularists and atheists. Some of their members are believer in gods, too.

In the Philippines, there is also a very miniscule group, but not worth your attention – in the meantime.

]]> By: Joe America http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa/comment-page-1#comment-139591 Joe America Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:03:51 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=9940#comment-139591 joma, They is the people doing the criticizing of the stamp. I am a US citizen, and I intensely dislike organized churches; I feel they too often do the wayward works of man, not the good works of God. But I have no trouble with honoring a woman who got outside the bounds of our normal excuse-making and lazy, self-absorbed ways to make a difference. Joe joma,

They is the people doing the criticizing of the stamp.
I am a US citizen, and I intensely dislike organized churches; I feel they too often do the wayward works of man, not the good works of God.
But I have no trouble with honoring a woman who got outside the bounds of our normal excuse-making and lazy, self-absorbed ways to make a difference.

Joe

]]> By: joma http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa/comment-page-1#comment-139465 joma Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:13:26 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=9940#comment-139465 Who is 'they'? If rules are meant to be broken, then criteria should say so. Joe, just being curious, are you a US citizen? Who is ‘they’?

If rules are meant to be broken, then criteria should say so. Joe, just being curious, are you a US citizen?

]]> By: Anna http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa/comment-page-1#comment-139410 Anna Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:07:07 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=9940#comment-139410 I am surprised by the protests. I mean, if i were an atheist, I would still honor a woman like Mother Theresa -- -not because of her religion but because of what she did. I am surprised by the protests. I mean, if i were an atheist, I would still honor a woman like Mother Theresa — -not because of her religion but because of what she did.

]]> By: Joe America http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa/comment-page-1#comment-139311 Joe America Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:56:09 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=9940#comment-139311 She was helping people, which rises above the association with the church. Anyway, rules are meant to be broken and refined, if the situation merits. How can anyone complain about this stamp? Don't they have good work to be doing instead? Joe She was helping people, which rises above the association with the church. Anyway, rules are meant to be broken and refined, if the situation merits. How can anyone complain about this stamp? Don’t they have good work to be doing instead?

Joe

]]> By: joma http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa/comment-page-1#comment-139122 joma Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:10:35 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=9940#comment-139122 That absence seems to have started at almost precisely the time she began tending the poor and dying in Calcutta, and — except for a five-week break in 1959 — never abated. Although perpetually cheery in public, the Teresa of the letters lived in a state of deep and abiding spiritual pain. In more than 40 communications, many of which have never before been published, she bemoans the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness" and "torture" she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. "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." Recalls Kolodiejchuk, Come Be My Light's editor: "I read one letter to the Sisters [of Teresa's Missionaries of Charity], and their mouths just dropped open. It will give a whole new dimension to the way people understand her." Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415-1,00.html#ixzz0ebi6DPMG That absence seems to have started at almost precisely the time she began tending the poor and dying in Calcutta, and — except for a five-week break in 1959 — never abated.

Although perpetually cheery in public, the Teresa of the letters lived in a state of deep and abiding spiritual pain. In more than 40 communications, many of which have never before been published, she bemoans the “dryness,” “darkness,” “loneliness” and “torture” she is undergoing. She compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God.

She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. “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.” Recalls Kolodiejchuk, Come Be My Light’s editor: “I read one letter to the Sisters [of Teresa's Missionaries of Charity], and their mouths just dropped open. It will give a whole new dimension to the way people understand her.”

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415-1,00.html#ixzz0ebi6DPMG

]]> By: joma http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa/comment-page-1#comment-139102 joma Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:49:44 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=9940#comment-139102 It does not matter whether you believe or not but - is there an UFO or none? It does not matter whether you believe or not but – is there an UFO or none?

]]> By: mariano http://filipinovoices.com/first-amendment-and-the-fight-for-mother-theresa/comment-page-1#comment-139080 mariano Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:02:08 +0000 http://filipinovoices.com/?p=9940#comment-139080 It is your choice not to believe, or to believe. If you believe in UFO like me. Welcome to the Club! It is your choice not to believe, or to believe. If you believe
in UFO like me. Welcome to the Club!

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