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Who is the most over loved historic person?

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#1 ·
Somebody who is usully very loved but they do not deserve to be. The person can be from any country or any period of time. Is it a eligious person? or a country leader?
 
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strange abraxas. I was going to put him as my answer in the original post. But I didnt want the thread to be just about him. Good answer
 
#316 ·
Yes! Sure he did some important things for Indians mainly the Hindus. But he was a little insensitive to the problems the Muslims were facing. Specially his civil disobedience movement was so damaging for the Muslims of India, who were already down socially and economically.
 
#105 ·
Totally ignorant statement. He didn't start any slave trade himself, plus slavery was a common thing everywhere. Columbus is a true Great of all times.

I'd say Che Guevara, a rabid murderer and psychopat without the slightest touch with reality.
 
#39 ·
Its easy to diss Napoleon because he wanted to bring slavery back but lets remember that the end of the slavery was a petition of the jacobines after the Terror era; Napoleon represented the bourgesy interests and was everything but a humanist. He at least mantained the monarchy out of the power for more 15 years :yeah:
 
#44 · (Edited)
Martin Luther. OCD nutcase who gets the love for speaking out against one sleezebag(Tetzel) and being the puppet behind the real thinker Melanchthon.
 
#46 ·
Mother Teresa :eek:

Horrible woman, felt that that suffering would bring people closer to Jesus, so she set up "clinics" for poor people and let them suffer rather than treat their illnesses so she could pray over them and "save their souls"

http://www.fitz-claridge.com/Articles/MotherTeresa.html
 
#50 · (Edited)
It doesnt appeal me when a link is so simple minded and has this kind of paragraph:

Mother Teresa was a conservative Catholic who supported the evil Pope's hard line on abortion, contraception, divorce, women priests, and generally had very bad ideas about women. A woman's highest virtue was to do her duty to the church and her husband – to be a “good” wife and mother and to serve the Catholic church.
So is it bad to be a good wife and mother? :lol:

Also this:

but the psychological reality was precisely that of slave labour. She chose India as her base and got many young girls for her convents. Those young girls/women were not there voluntarily in the psychological sense, they were there because their parents put enormous psychological pressure on them to become nuns. Mother T had a hideously austere set of rules for them, summed up by chastity, obedience and suchlike, and that meant obedience to the church, i.e., her. (One wonders what happened when chastity and obedience came into conflict. I'll bet it was chastity that got sacrificed.)
Off course she couldnt have done different, she was subordinated to the catholic church and all she could hope was to expect some discipline and rigorous laws. We are talking about a world pre-pills. This article was written by a feminist post-60 utopia woman. :eek: Give better links, next time.

But for me Mother Teresa was a problematic person.
 
#47 ·
Columbus gets off by virtue of living in the fifteenth century.

Che Guevara and De Gaulle are good picks.
 
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