Athiests Going "Postal" Over Mother Teresa

I have to say that I am surprized it to the looneys at Freedom from Religion this long to start ranting & raving. Their name says it all. they hate religion & hate the Constitution that allows for free expression of religion. They want to eliminate any free expression. & this latest rant clearly shows it.

It also shows how far over the edge & out of touch with reality they are because of their hatred for God. Let's start with Gaylor's comment " Martin Luther King "just happened to be a minister". 1st of all he was known as Reverend King & a Baptist minister at that. 2ndly, Rev. King clearly based his actions on the Gospel. Maybe she better go back & read some of King's speeches. He was just as religious as Mother Teresa.

So if she makes the following claim about Mother Teresa: "Mother Teresa is principally known as a religious figure who ran a religious institution. You can't really separate her being a nun and being a Roman Catholic from everything she did," then you have to say the same about Rev. King. He always used Biblical symbolism to back up what he was calling for. he usually spoke in black Churches & talked about racism being a sin. & then there is the organization he started, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Note the fact that it is Christian. Sorry, but Gaylor's claim just doesn't wash.

Then there is this comment she made about Malcom X: "Malcolm X was not principally known for being a religious figure." WHAT THE . . . .?????? Is she serious. Up to the time he left the Nation of Islam in 1964, Malcolm X taught its beliefs in his speeches. His speeches were peppered with the phrase "The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that . . . "

She said they were known for their civil rights activities, not for their religion. Sorry but their civil rights activities were closely related to their religion & inseperable despite revisionist attempts to do so.

Clearly their actions were no less motivated by their faith than Mother Teresa's. & she knows it. But she also knows she can hide behind the "civil rights' claim to try & justify her claim. Bluntly, it is anti-God & in particular anti-Catholic hatred motivating her & the whole organization.

Then there is this comment of Gaylor"s: "other things that deserve to be commemorated but are not because the people behind it didn't have the power of the Catholic church."

"It's enormously difficult to get them (commemorative stamps) and people have huge campaigns, and to me this speaks of the power of the Roman Catholic Church in hierarchy.
"They want to make her a saint and this is part of the PR machine."

Is she serious? Does she honestly think the Catholic Church has that much power that they can make the USPS issue a stamp to push it's agenda? Or that it would? & it is clear she has no idea of how the process for canonization operates by her clim this is a PR move to have that accomplished. Out of touch with reality motivated by hate, that is what is behind her actions.

I could go on but I think I made my point.

I appreciate Bruce Sheiman's being willing to speak out & point out how Freedom from Religion is being hypocritical.

Meanwhile, if Gaylor & Freedom From Religion don't want to use the stamp, don't. Nobody is forcing them to. There are plenty of other stamps they can use, such as super pro-abortion, Planned Parnthood cheerleader Kate Hepburn. You will note that Pro-lifers aren't trying to claim she is being honored for her abortion stand. They know she isn't. Many of us won't use the stamp for that reason, but we won't demand the stamp not be made.

But I will suggest that we do our best to make Mother Teresa's stamp 1 of the fastest sell-outs in the history of the USPS. & then use 1 of them to tell Gaylor we won't be silenced. (In a respectful way, of course.)

Atheist Group Blasts Postal Service for Mother Teresa Stamp

An atheist organization is blasting the U.S. Postal Service for its plan to honor Mother Teresa with a commemorative stamp, saying it violates postal regulations against honoring "individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings."
The Freedom from Religion Foundation is urging its supporters to boycott the stamp — and also to engage in a letter-writing campaign to spread the word about what it calls the "darker side" of Mother Teresa.
The stamp — set to be released on Aug. 26, which would have been Mother Teresa's 100th birthday — will recognize the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner for her humanitarian work, the Postal Service announced last month.
"Noted for her compassion toward the poor and suffering, Mother Teresa, a diminutive Roman Catholic nun and honorary U.S. citizen, served the sick and destitute of India and the world for nearly 50 years," the Postal Service said in a press release. "Her humility and compassion, as well as her respect for the innate worth and dignity of humankind, inspired people of all ages and backgrounds to work on behalf of the world’s poorest populations."
But Freedom from Religion Foundation spokeswoman Annie Laurie Gaylor says issuing the stamp runs against Postal Service regulations.

Mother Teresa is principally known as a religious figure who ran a religious institution. You can't really separate her being a nun and being a Roman Catholic from everything she did," Gaylor told FoxNews.com.
Postal Service spokesman Roy Betts expressed surprise at the protest, given the long list of previous honorees with strong religious backgrounds, including Malcolm X, the former chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister and co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
"In fact we honored Father Flanagan in 1986 for his humanitarian work. This has nothing to do with religion or faith," Betts told FoxNews.com.
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Gaylor said the atheist group opposed Father Flanagan's stamp but not those for King and Malcolm X, because she said they were known for their civil rights activities, not for their religion.
Martin Luther King "just happened to be a minister," and "Malcolm X was not principally known for being a religious figure," she said.
"And he's not called Father Malcolm X like Mother Teresa. I mean, even her name is a Roman Catholic honorific."
Gaylor said Mother Teresa infused Catholicism into her secular honors — including an "anti-abortion rant" during her Nobel Prize acceptance speech — and that even her humanitarian work was controversial.
"There was criticism by the end of her life that she turned what was a tiny charity into an extremely wealthy charity that had the means to provide better care than it did," Gaylor said. "...There's this knee jerk response that everything she did was humanitarian, and I think many people would differ that what she was doing was to promote religion, and what she wanted to do was baptize people before they die, and that doesn't have a secular purpose for a stamp."
But the Postal Service said the commemorative stamp has nothing to do with Mother Teresa's religion.
"Mother Teresa is not being honored because of her religion, she's being honored for her work with the poor and her acts of humanitarian relief," Betts told FoxNews.com.
"Her contribution to the world as a humanitarian speaks for itself and is unprecedented," he added.
Some atheists, too, spoke out against the group's objections, including Bruce Sheiman, author of "An Atheist Defends Religion." He said the Freedom from Religion Foundation is being "hypocritical" and really "stepping over the line."
"Clearly there are a number of things that you can point to and say it's religious and a number of things you can point to and say that it's areligious," Sheiman told FoxNews.com. "So it really doesn't make sense to protest it."
He said the Foundation's campaign stems from concern that the abundance of humanitarian work done by believers will overshadow that done by atheists.
"Like billboards and bus ads, this is just part of the whole campaign that they're doing to make non-belief more visible," he said.
Gaylor said the foundation's only concern is the "other things that deserve to be commemorated but are not because the people behind it didn't have the power of the Catholic church."
"It's enormously difficult to get them," she said, referring to commemorative stamps, "and people have huge campaigns, and to me this speaks of the power of the Roman Catholic Church in hierarchy.
"They want to make her a saint and this is part of the PR machine."
The Foundation is encouraging its supporters to purchase the new stamp honoring the late actress Katharine Hepburn, who was an atheist, instead — or any of the other 2010 stamps, which include cartoonist Bill Mauldin, singer Kate Smith, filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, painter Winslow Homer and poet Julia de Burgos.
Betts said that despite the Foundation's accusations and letter-writing campaign, "The response to Mother Teresa has been overwhelmingly in favor of this stamp."
He said the Mother Teresa stamp, like other stamp subjects, will "stand the test of time, reflect the cultural diversity of our nation and have broad national appeal."