Mother Teresa Doubted the Existence of God

Yes, it’s disturbing. When I read the article in the September 3, 2007 issue of Time Magazine I thought, “How could a saint have questioned the existence of God and where did I put my stack of toilet paper?” I’ve had my own doubts about religion and the authenticity of wrestling in my pubescent years, but I’m not a holy man and so I think it’s okay for people like me to be uncertain about our faith at times. Of course when I got older, I simply left it to the Catholic Church to be right. They seem to know what they’re doing and they’re so organized.

But what does this revelation really mean? Are the athiests right? But which athiests? Yes there are different kinds so you have to qualify which God you don’t believe in. Do you not believe in the calf god, Zeus, Allah, or Jesus? Athiests will probably use this as a trump card, “See even your own saint didn’t believe in God”. But the Catholic spindoctors would retort that the true message is Mother Teresa kept her faith despite what she felt inside. It was a time of trial and even Jesus himself felt despair before he died and cried out, “Father, Father, why have you forsaken me?”

I personally have never spoken to God, except for that time I accidentally took mushrooms in Amsterdam but He didn’t really “speak” to me, He communicated to me through the clouds. His message was, “Everything you need is on its way”. I’m pretty sure that was it or maybe it was “Get out of the way”. Then I talked to the animals and they told me not to eat them anymore but I said, “I’m sorry! I can’t! I’m so hungry!” And I went ahead and ate a shawarma.

I personally believe and know that there is a God though I could never prove it to anyone. To paraphrase pastor Rick Warren: in the end, you don’t lose anything if you believed and you were wrong but if you didn’t believe and you were wrong then you lost.