[Wikipedia-l] Re: Eric's abuse of his sysop powers

Tue Oct 21 18:19:29 UTC 2003

--- Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:

> This article, Mother Teresa, does cry out for
> segregation of critical views
> from positive views as we seem rather mean spirited
> to be bringing up all
> the uncomfortable facts (even God must have been
> unaware of them or she
> would never have been authorized to perform
> miracles) just as the Catholic
> community is celebrating a new saint. But I note the
> John Paul Jones
> article effectively debunks an American secular
> saint.

It may be that Eriks got an anti-Catholic gripe going
--who doesnt.  But Fred is exactly right --and the
issue is: Who is Mother Teresa?  Is she on her way to
being a saint, or a contemporary person, for whom an
encyclopedia article can write up all kinds of dirt on
her.

We can also ask: "Who *was* Mother Teresa?" but this
is the controversy --Catholics think of her as being
an "is" while non-Catholics will think of her as a
"was."

Which takes precedence?  Neither. This is an
encyclopedia -- we use [[news style]] and that neutral
point of view thing... 

Its quite easy to simply describe her humanist
accomplishments in a *secular, *encyclopedic, way --
and then to treat how Catholics revere her, and others
hate her --presumably for her supposedly making the
Catholic Church look good somewhat --(we can't have
that.)

~S~

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