Calcutta Will Take a Century to Recover from Mother Teresa
https://missionariesofcharity.wordpress.com/2016/09/03/calcutta-will-take-a-century-to-recover-from-mother-teresa/
Did no one know that she hobnobbed with the Duvaliers of Haiti whose brutality was
unsurpassed (whose opponents were often cut up and fed to dogs)? No one in India
wanted to know. For the Western media, she was a metaphor, a setpiece, a stratospheric
certainty of image in an uncertain and changing world. Conversely, Kolkata was the
opposite metaphor of absolute degradation where “foetuses are given to dogs to eat” (as
remarked by her “other self” Francis Goree).
It was beyond the West’s interest, energy or remit to robustly challenge these wrong
stereotypes. But did Indian journalists not know that her main bank was the Vatican Bank,
a dark cavern of corruption, intrigue and murder? Before she died, it was well known that
she had accepted millions from Charles Keating, the notorious American swindler, but no
one in India cared.
I wonder how long it will take the world to recover from the Lord Of The Universe? Will he end with a BANG! or a whisper? Does this over inflated wind bag leave a wake of pollution and destroyed lives behind him, or is his effect on us end up as a tiny pimple that is gone in a few days?
I know for each of us the story is highly personal. The degree of damage is as unique as each of our fingerprints. What happens if each of us steps away and sees this whole drama as a tiny soap bubble. POP it. It is as if it never existed.
That will be the greatest insult to the ji. For his life to be as if he never lived. Let's do THAT! Heal to the point that he has no power over us. He is invisible. He is NOTHING. What if we googled him and nothing came up.
Karen
