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Mother Teresa: In Heaven or Hell?

Monday, 27 August 2007

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Mother Teresa: In Heaven or Hell?

Don Boys, Ph.D.

The London talk show host asked me, “Well, does that mean Mother Teresa is not in Heaven?― I gulped, thought for a
second, and said, “Well, I can’t know any person’s heart but if Teresa trusted the Roman Catholic Church, baptism, o
good and admirable works to get her to Heaven, she is not there.― The show’s host audibly gasped!

I had been asked to do the show dealing with Princess Diana since some Christian groups in England were saying that
the recently deceased Diana was now in hell. After dealing with the issue regarding Diana, the host hit me with the
Teresa question since the Catholic nun (known as the “Saint of the Gutters―) had just died. It is one thing to suggest that a
decadent, drinking, doomed princess was in hell but something else to suggest that one of the most kind, sacrificing,
loveable do-gooders of history might not be in Heaven!

I told the host “Good people don’t necessarily go to Heaven and bad people don’t necessarily go to Hell.― She was
astounded and said, “Would you please explain that?― I was thrilled to do so. I made it very clear that people go to Heaven
after repenting of sin and placing personal faith in the shed blood of Christ, and people go to Hell for not doing so. Good
or evil works have nothing to do with where one spends eternity.

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There is no doubt that evangelical and fundamental Christians can learn something from Teresa who ministered to the
"unwanted, unloved, and uncared for.― No one should be more concerned for the poor, disadvantaged, hurting, sick,
hungry people of the world than Christians. I think we could be more involved than we are (although many of us are
giving to world missions, feeding the hungry, providing clean water, supporting medical missions, going to mission fields,
etc.), and we could probably do more for people without sacrificing the essential message that only Christ saves.

Teresa did not appear sophisticated; however, she or her handlers were very astute in using the media for her own
end—raising money for her cause of adding members to the Catholic Church. She had connections with rich, famous
people who funded her charity according to Christopher Hitchens in The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory
and Practice. Some of the “sugar daddies― she fawned over were disreputable, unscrupulous people such as the bloody
Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier (who plundered Haiti), Communist Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, Charles
Keating, and other scoundrels.

Charles Keating of the Lincoln S&L fame is one egregious example of Teresa “working― the rich crowd. Keating gave more
than a million dollars to Teresa and flew her around in his jet. During his trial for fraud, Teresa wrote Judge Ito telling him
what a good guy Keating was and asked for leniency in sentencing. Teresa advised the judge to “do what Jesus would
do.― I’m not sure what Jesus would have done, but the judge gave Keating ten years for fraud.

Following the trial, Teresa received a letter from the Deputy District Attorney telling her that the money Keating had given
her was stolen from hard working people and suggested that she return the money. I would have suggested, “After all,
that is what Jesus would have you do.― The good nun never answered his letter (nor returned the stolen money). After all,
it was for the “poor.―

Teresa was also involved with Princess Diana who sought consolation at the time of her divorce. The nun said that the
divorce was unfortunate but was probably a good thing. However, Teresa took the opposite position when Ireland was
debating what to do about their prohibition of divorce and remarriage. It seems the nun was an opportunist, especially
when it fit her agenda. Her agenda was to raise money for her charity by schmoozing up to rich and famous people. She
raised a fortune but never built a hospital or hospice, or a home for children in India but did build convents in more than
150 countries! There has never been an accounting for the fortune she raised.

Teresa had theological problems as well as problems with principle. She was asked if she ever converted people (or only
fed the hungry, lifted the poor, etc.) and she replied, “Of course I convert. I convert you to be a better Hindu or a better
Muslim or a better Protestant. Once you've found God, it's up to you to decide how to worship him.― That is heresy. No
real Christian believes that.

I think maybe I was correct on that London talk show when I suggested that she was not a Christian but only a Catholic.
(Just as there are many Baptists who are not Christians.) This week Teresa’s letters to various confessors of the past 50
years are causing a major world-wide stir, with a major UK paper asking, “Was Mother Teresa an atheist?― A book of
letters to her friends and counselors, titled, Mother Teresa: Come be My Light, reveals the full extent of her long “dark
night of the soul.― The friendly author, Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk reveals Teresa’s emptiness since “the last nearly half-
century of her life she felt no presence of God whatsoever.― He adds, "neither in her heart or in the eucharist."

Teresa expressed her anguish, doubts, and fears when she bemoaned the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness," and
"torture" she was undergoing. The author wrote, “She [Teresa] compares the experience to hell and at one point says it
has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God.―

In one letter she wrote, “Where is my Faith — even deep down right in there is nothing, but emptiness & darkness — My G
how painful is this unknown pain — I have no Faith.― This was expressed by a woman who is on track to becoming a “sain
but here is a Baptist saint who has never had a similar experience in over 50 years of being a Christian.
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She lived in darkness all her life and cried, “If there be no God — there can be no soul — if there is no Soul then Jesus —
also are not true.― As she smiled to the world, she wrote to another confessor, “I have come to love the darkness.― John
3:19 tells us that “men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.―

My critics will be angry that I did not call her “Mother― Teresa but she was not my mother. My mother was Emma and while
she was not an activist in the slums of Zanesville, nor did she lift the sick and poor from the gutters, she was a godly
woman who knew Christ as her Savior. I am convinced she is in Heaven― Teresa, I’m not sure of her present location!

Copyright 2007, Don Boys, Ph.D.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives, author of 13 books, frequent guest on
television and radio talk shows, and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years His most recent book is ISLAM: America's
Trojan Horse! His websites are www.cstnews.com and www.Muslimfact.com.)

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