http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-lecture.html According to Mother Teresa, abortion is “the greatest destroyer of peace today”: “Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe of malnutrition, of hunger and so on, but millions are dying deliberately by the will of the mother. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today.” (She says almost exactly the same thing at two other points in her speech.)
Her lecture also contains a baffling story: she once took rice to a starving Hindu family; instead of eating it all themselves, they shared it with their starving Muslim neighbours. Mother Teresa approved, commenting: “I didn’t bring more rice that evening because I wanted them to enjoy the joy of sharing.” How thoughtful. In Mother Teresa’s world, it seems, starving families prefer “the joy of sharing” to “more food.”
(Via Christopher Hitchens, who says she was not a friend of the poor, she was a friend of poverty.) 11:58
