Posted on 11/20/2012 10:30:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
An atheist group at Dartmouth College is planning an event aimed at skewering the reputation of the late Mother Teresa.
The Atheists Humanists Agnostics (AHA) club sent out a campus-wide e-mail announcing the program on Tuesday and promising a “full-out romp against why one of the most beloved people of the century, Mother Teresa, is as Hitchens put it… ‘a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf.’”
The e-mail says the group plans to screen an anti-Mother Teresa film, discuss Hitchens’ book, Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and question how the public has been “conned into thinking this woman [Teresa] was good.”
The e-mail states Teresa, who is on her way to sainthood in the Catholic church, “was not a friend of the poor,” but “was a friend of poverty.”
The email links to a now infamous article by the late Christopher Hitchens which attempts to debunk much of the lore that surrounds Teresa.
The event has ignited controversy on the Ivy League campus, with students telling Campus Reform they were upset AHA was hosting such an event.
“It’s easy for a group of privileged Ivy League students who have never experienced poverty to meet in a ‘super secret room’ and think themselves as intellectuals by bashing Mother Teresa,” Melanie Wilcox, Executive Editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review, told Campus Reform.
“I’d like to know what they have done, if anything, to help the needy,” she added.
AHA President Adam Hann, however, defended the event, but admitted he had intentionally used “provocative” language in the e-mail to excite interest among students.
“What I like to do is, when there are areas that people just get vitriol or angry even for bringing it up, I like to go and have that discussion,” said Hann.
Hann added that he estimates about five to ten people will participate in the event slated for this Saturday.
Mother Teresa is widely known for founding the Missionaries of Charities, a charity tasked with aiding the poor. She was beatified in 2003 by Pope John Paul II, a step toward possible sainthood.
Gosh, I wonder which three ...
Some historians are more positive about Simon de Montford.
There’s nothing braver than attacking a dead nun who spent most of her life working with the poor and the destitute/sarc.
“The evil that men do lives after them...”
If you were penniless with sores on your body on the street who would help you more than the other? Mother Teresa or Christopher Hitchens. Hmmmmmm . Maybe the one known for helping others than the one making fun of the one helping others. My faith is in the helper. Thank you very much.
The retired Bishop of my diocese was a long-time friend and confessor to Mother Teresa. He said when he first visited the Home for Dying Destitutes, a man was brought in who was dying of leprosy and had been partially eaten by rats. Mother Teresa asked him to give the man a blessing, which he did, and then said, “Now, please give him a bath.” Bishop Curlin says he replied, “Can’t I give someone else a blessing, Mother?” (he’s quite a pistol at 85), and she said, “It’s Jesus. You’re going to serve Jesus by washing him.”
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