OFFER IT UP?

                   
I am sickened by the idea that "mother Theresa", that sadistic old crone, is being elevated to "sainthood" by the equally sadistic catholic church!
Not that "sainthood" means anything to me, but it is certainly giving the PR spin on the  church a boost among many gullible people. Lets face it, that church  needs all the help it can get to boost it's failing image.
I am particularly nauseated by her appalling attitude to other's suffering! saying that the poor and sick should be grateful for their suffering believing that suffering, however it is caused is a gift from god!
"I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of christ.I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people!
What a piece of work! and what a bloody cop-out!
Although this doesn't surprise me at all, as I grew up in this dreadful religion, and I was always told I should be grateful for any pain or discomfort I felt
"Offer it up" was what I was always told! Any pain I experienced was considered something I should be "grateful" for, to enable me to "offer it up" in atonement for my many many "sins", both past and future. Sympathy ought never be craved, in fact it was a dirty word!
"You are gasping for breath " (I am asthmatic) "Offer it up!"
"You have a broken foot? (I fell off a swing) "Offer it up!"
You are being sick? you have measles? whooping cough? pneumonia? 
"Offer it up"
It seemed that any physical pain I went through was of no other consequence than to be used as an offering. I was then shamed into thinking that I was selfish for crying or complaining about pain, in fact I should welcome it so I got the chance to "Offer it up!"

What a clever way for this cruel regime to keep people subserviant and suffering! And worse still, if they continue to "honour" people in this way who obediently  further their  cause, and  are perpetuating this cruel and distorted view of humanity.

If I listened to that religious crap  I would be told I was sinful, unworthy, only here in this life to prove I am deserving of the next, the church of course saying that they alone are the custodians of the gateway to that joyful  never never land, and I should be deliriously happy at being in pain or afraid or starving, or raped by one of their sick "holy" men and OFFER it up!

WTF!

Thankfully I now know that every human being is  a very precious, unique, and irreplaceable part of the Universe and  that even includes me!

Compassion is where it is at, and something this awful woman and her appalling religion know Nothing about.