My gosh! I'm not Catholic and I don't care that she was Catholic. What matters most to me is that Mother Teresa was an AMAZING SELFLESS HUMAN BEING! She literally gave her heart and soul to help care for the abandoned, lost and forgotten. Simply don't buy the stamp and don't bother looking at it. Just don't DEPRIVE the rest of the world of wanting to honor her simply because YOU ARE OFFENDED! WTF have you done to make this world a better place?!?! What contributions have you made to society??? Other than living to IMPOSE your non-belief on the rest of us. Do you realize you are just as bad or even worse than the religious fanatics?! You have made having no religion a religion! A religion of NON-BELIEF! YOU HYPOCRITES!
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Christian Today India
written by Babu Thomas
Saturday January 30, 2010, 11:30am (IST)
An atheist group has criticized the US Postal Service (USPS) for honoring Mother Teresa with a stamp which it says goes against the postal regulations.
According to the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), the commemorative stamp violates postal regulations against honoring “individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings.”
According to the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), the commemorative stamp violates postal regulations against honoring “individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings.”
A press release from the U.S. Postal Service issued last month praised Mother Teresa for her 50 years of service to “the sick and destitute of India and the world,” as well as her “humility and compassion” and “respect for the innate worth and dignity of humankind.”
With this stamp, the U.S. Postal Service recognizes Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work, USPS said in the statement.
The stamp is expected to be issued on August 26 2010, Mother Teresa's 100th birth anniversary.
The FFRF, however, complains that the announcement violates the ninth regulation which states "stamps or stationery items shall not be issued to honor religious institutions or individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings or beliefs." [SHEER STUPIDITY!]
Its spokeswoman Annie Laurie Gaylor says, “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.”
However, the atheist group has no objections to existing images of Martin Luther King, a Protestant minister, and Malcolm X, strongly associated with the promotion of Islam.
The two men, FFRF says, were better known for their civil rights work than their religious beliefs.
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