>>I guess that Mother Teresa comes closest, at least in modern times, to being a well known example of practising Christianity as it is intended.
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>I assume this is the same Mother Teresa who praised the good works of the Duvalier family in Haiti in helping the poor of that country. The same one who requested lenience for Charles Keating during his trial for swindling millions of dollars from the poor (who also happened to donate over a million dollars to her & lent her the use of his jet plane). The same one who claimed in her acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, that the greatest threat to world peace was abortion. The same one who laid a wreath at the tomb of Hoxha, the dictator of her own country, who made so many of her own country people suffer.
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>Some of her views that she went to lengths to express (it was her stated aim to spread her particular [extreme] views of Catholic fundamentalism) make DD sound like a moderate.
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>She may have done a lot of good, but if you look closely you'll find a lot of the hypocricy shown by the majority of religious people. She admitted to one interviewer that the good work she did was selfish, in that it was for her own salvation, the help to other people was a beneficial side-effect.


Len;

I think the problem with all of us is that we are human and do not "walk on water". If on average every human spent 51% of his/her life doing something good then the world would be a bit better. At least I would like to think so. I cannot think of one human who is without fault in one way or another.

Tom