The Rhenish Missionary Society ( is Re: GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Doug Millison]

Not all missions and missionaries are the same.
How feeding a starving person or making a dying person's last few moments
on this earth a bit more comfortable can produce the catalog of ill effects
that have been trotted out in this thread is beyond me.
Hitchens' book on Mother Teresa is a cranky, biased, distorted jeremiad. I
recommend reading what people who have actually worked with her and her
nuns have to say.
It's very easy for comfortable, well-fed folks in the West to say that
those who feed the hungry elsewhere are in fact harming the people they're
trying to help. Some of these folks can also convince themselves that they
are doing good by passing up the people who are dying in the streets right
here in the U.S. of A.
Sweet dreams,
Doug
P.S. I'm biased, it's true. Read my article at
http://www.online-journalist.com/homeless.html for the gory details of my
crimes against humanity.

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