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I just read your last insert

..and I believe that sounds more like the truth. I think I remember hearing that said somewhere that she had never had a personal relationship with God, but she continued to believe anyway.

posted by b2008 on December 15, 2007 at 11:00 AM | link to this | reply

Mother Teresa's Disbelief

I believe her disbelief was in people, not God. That's just my personal belief.

posted by b2008 on December 15, 2007 at 10:58 AM | link to this | reply

"So in her own diaries, Mother Teresa expresses a lack of belief, in God, in religion."

In her diaries, Mother Theresa described a 30-plus period of what is considered "dryness", or the lack of contact with the God that she was serving.  Basically she did not experience God the way the many mystics that preceeded her did: Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Francis of Assisi, etc., all had visions, locutions, or some physical manifestation that gave each of them tangible evidence of the God in whom they placed their faith.  Teresa experienced the purgition of an Angel; John of the Cross experienced locutions; Francis bore the stigmata.  All claim to have "felt" the presence of their Lord in many times of their lives.

Theresa of Calcutta did not experience any of these things; in other words, she felt nothing through her service.  Faith is believing and acting upon those beliefs despite the abscense of tangible evidence of the existence of a God.  Therefore, she did not express lack of belief in God or religion, but a decision to believe despite her lack of "personal relationship" with God.

posted by FineYoungSinger on September 5, 2007 at 10:31 AM | link to this | reply

Xeno -

Well said!

posted by sannhet on August 30, 2007 at 5:11 PM | link to this | reply