Christopher Hitchens Manages to Top Richard Dawkins, Assails Mother Theresa (Calls her a Fraud)

Discovery ^ | 10/31/2009 | Bruce Chapman

[Steelfish]

CH should not rush in where angels fear to tread. He has no clue about Catholic theology and much less about the Life of Mother Theresa. He needs to go and speak with the thousands who in their poverty died rich with the love that radiated from the hearts and souls of the order of nuns Mother Theresa established.

He needs to go and speak with those who were allowed to be born and were given life because of Mother Theresa efforts. While CH is an intelligent man and a good writer, his venomous attack on Mother Theresa would be repulsed by those who donate to her cause and the sick, the weak, the discarded mass of humans.

[stentorian conservative]

I like the way you think.

[SuziQ]

This is nothing new. He’s been saying this for years.

[kitkat]

Odd,I don’t see any quotes around Mother Teresa’s words in your post. Could it possibly be that Hitchens did a bit of twisting of her words in his attack book?

He surely seems to have NO understanding of the Church’s teachings.

[stevem]

I don’t know about the others, but Hitchens has been saying this about Mother Theresa for as long as I can remember.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Christopher Hitchens Manages to Top Richard Dawkins, Assails Mother Theresa(sic) (Calls her a Fraud)

No "h" in Teresa.

[johngrace]

Boy, if I did not know better I would believe he is praying in this photo. This guy is so warped its amazing. How this guy tries to find fault with Mother T blows my mind. Yeah if I was slowly dying on the street I would want him to help me than Mother T. Pray for him , he needs it

[TradicalRC]

I realize that he's not American but he still deserves another post on the American Taliban quote page.

[redhead]

An old atheist afraid to die and face the judgment he really KNOWS is coming. Poor lil' Christopher (nice Christian name, that...) whistling past the graveyard.

[mlizzy]

Mother Teresa Rocks! (and JP II too):)

Happy All Saints Day to the Saints (and Blesseds too -- you're almost there).

[Poe White Trash]

And we are to believe that E.O. Wilson was being disinterested and selfless when he "explained away" Mother Teresa's altruism?

Right.....

Do you have a source citation for E.O.'s blather, BTW?

[beaversmom]

That is very funny :)