Hitchens was wrong about a lot of things - although I was present at a speech Hitchens gave in which he said he supported Reagan’s Star Wars after Bill Clinton’s criminal support of giving China military/industrial secrets.
Mother Theresa took huge amounts of money from the horribly corrupt and murderous Duvalier family, the criminal Charles Keating and praised Albania’s evil dictator, Enver Hoxha.
I prefer to think she did it out of naivete and desperation; Hitchens believes otherwise.
This is Chris Hitchens:
“It [World War I] had crucially undermined the autocracy, the Romanov dynasty. And I think it had very much discredited the Russian Orthodox Church, for which he [Lenin] had a particular dislike. But he was very willing to finish those jobs, all three of them, to wipe out the Romanov family, to rebuild the army, and under Trotsky’s leadership of the Red Army, and to seize the opportunity to confiscate church property and to dissolve, as far as possible, the influence of the church.
One of Lenin’s great achievements, in my opinion, is to create a secular Russia. The power of the Russian Orthodox Church, which was an absolute warren of backwardness and evil and superstition, is probably never going to recover from what he did to it.
The difficulty was that he also inherited, and partly by his measures created, even more scarcity and economic dislocation. The Bolsheviks had studied what had happened to the French revolution and they knew there was a danger of autocracy developing in their own ranks, and they were always on the look out for another Bonaparte. And the person who most looked like Bonaparte to them was Trotsky, who had flamboyance and military genius and charisma.”
Mother Teresa certainly did not endorse the activities of dictators and criminals....and if they wanted to salve their consciences by donating to the needy....why should she deny them the opportunity?
Mother Teresa never judged others-—her philosphy was simply that....... one’s activities are between them and God.......b/c only he can judge.
Was he spared the hellfires? All Hitchens had to say was two simple words-—”save me.”