Mother Teresa denied pain killers to some of her patients!

Mother Teresa is commonly thought of as an uber-saint. However, she may not have exactly been an angel too modest for wings. Often, she has been criticized for her views on human suffering. She adamantly believed that suffering would bring people closer to Jesus Christ, who supposedly suffered and subsequently “died for our sins.”

Thus, she denied some of the patients in her Homes for the Dying painkillers. Sanal Edamaruku, President of Rationalist International claims that one could “hear the screams of people having maggots tweezered out of their open wounds without pain relief.” On principal, strong painkillers were not even administered in severe cases as, according to Mother Teresa’s philosophy, it is “the most beautiful gift for a person that can participate in the suffering of Christ.” Well, the person suffering may beg to differ.

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