Happy All Saints Day to the Saints (and Blesseds too -- you're almost there).
Posted on 10/31/2009 8:30:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Catholics and other Christians probably don't care what anyone says about them anymore, given the relative lack of outrage over Richard Dawkins' comments in The Washington Post this week. (See blog post below). So who will notice what Christopher Hitchens just unloaded on the Dennis Miller show this morning? Miller, let it be said, was not buying it at all--merely letting Hitchens spout this about abortion and Mother Theresa:
"Mother Theresa spent her whole life saying (that what Calcutta needs) is a huge campaign against family planning. I mean, who comes to that conclusion who isn't a complete fanatic? She took - and I would directly say stole...millions and millions of dollars and spent all the money not on the poor, but on the building of nearly 200 convents in her own name around the world to glorify herself and to continue to spread the doctrine that, as she put it -- when she got her absurd Nobel Peace Prize -- that the main threat to world peace is abortion and contraception. The woman was a fanatic and a fundamentalist and a fraud, and millions of people are much worse off because of her life, and it's a shame there is no hell for your bitch to go to."
Christopher Hitchens is a regular contributor to The New Republic, The Atlantic and Vanity Fair.
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.
I like the way you think.
This is nothing new. He’s been saying this for years.
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.
I don’t know about the others, but Hitchens has been saying this about Mother Theresa for as long as I can remember.
No "h" in Teresa.
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
Right.....
Do you have a source citation for E.O.'s blather, BTW?
That is very funny :)
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