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1. in other words, we have Freedom of the press, freedom to abort babies, freedom of same sex marriage.... and the list goes on & on.... but NOT Freedom of Religion...... give me a break....
   I thought our our country was founded on Freedom of religion.....
   Something is wrong with this 'picture'!!!

   Posted By: rusty

2. I thought freedom of religion means that one may practice whatever religion he or she wants to and the the govenment can't tell you which one you may practice. Freedom of religon does not mean you can't talk about, think about, do artistic things about religion or religious people. Having a stamp about Mother Theresa, or a Christmas, or Chanakha, or Ramadan stamp is not say one MUST practice one of those religions, it is saying that those religions are among those being practiced.

   Posted By: Tony

3. Contrary to what these rabid atheists claim, Mother Teresa was known almost exclusively for her humanitarian efforts, caring for the lease among us. There are hundreds of thousands of nuns in the world, but the post office singled her out for her efforts on behalf of humanity regardless of religion or ethnicity. The atheists have pretty much proven to the rest of us that alienation from God leads to blindness to the face of true charity.

   Posted By: lee

4. I think the last sentence that 'lee' wrote is so true, and so emblematic of the atheist mindset that it merits their consideration. It's not a condemnation, but it points to a very real and very big crack in their thinking, or their philosophy. Thank you 'lee'!
   

   Posted By: Evagrius

5. One India Reports? 10 to 1 it's a front for Hindu Extreme Nationalism. Check out the Caste System!
   Christianity is a threat to them. See how many churches are burnt and destroy along with christian villages. I say IGNORE the PEANUT GALLERY and BUY, BUY, BUY the STAMP!
   

   Posted By: john pat

6. Caring for the dying, serving the sick and neglected is 'religious', I thought it was an ethical obligation that even an atheist would support. I wonder who stands by and supports an atheist in their need, I hope it not anyone religious!!???!!!

   Posted By: paul

7. The Freedom from Religion Foundation has a perverted perception of the first amendment to the Constitution which was never meant to eliminate religious values from public life. Quite the contrary. If our country emulated many of the virtues Blessed Mother Teresa embodied, it would not currently find itself on the precipice of moral disintegration amid a Culture of Death.
   
   The Freedom from Religion Foundation has nothing to offer anyone and a lot to learn. Kudos to the US Postal Service.

   Posted By: Jim Connolly

8. If they're angry about the Mother Teresa stamp, they must be furious about the Madonna and Child on the Christmas stamp!

   Posted By: Msgr. James Petersen

9. The athiests are not the problem; the problem is with people in Government and society who accept what irrational athiests have to say.
   
   The amendment states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..."
   
   No law has been made here respecting a religion, but only a postage stamp which appeals to the public-at-large for the purpose of obtaining a large volume of sales and revenue.
   
   A rational atheist should understand this.

   Posted By: T. K. Hughes

10. I fail to understand how ANYONE can have anything against Mother Theresa! It is absolutely mind boggling!

    Posted By: Steven

11. The Freedom From Religion Foundation could always nominate someone with a similar track record to Mother Teresa to be placed on a stamp. No one would object.

    Posted By: Lewis P Buckingham

12. Gee, would that prevent acknowledgement of people from Martin Luther King, Jr., John Brown, Albert Schweitzer, Jonathan Edwards to Reinhold Niebuhr, Walter Rauschenbusch, Henri Nouwen and Thomas Merton?
    
    Religious leadership is one significant aspect of human leadership and it is sectarian and dogmatic not to want to acknowledge it.
    
    Note, you don't have to be an advocate of a leader's form of religious expression to say this. I myself have questions about the retail form of compassion Mother Teresa practiced, at the expense of addressing underlying social structures, and not recognizing that reproductive freedom would have helped alleviate the horrors she ministered to.
    
    But not to honor her dedication and Christian commitment to her understanding of how human suffering should be confronted is to attempt to establish your own form of religion (or irreligion) as a norm for all of us. Not a desirable First Amenement precedent.
    
    It's time for non-theistic humanists and freethinkers to grow up and accept the values of religious pluralism.

    Posted By: Ron Bohr

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