Yeah, they're pretty hot down there. ;-)
Posted on 11/03/2009 12:53:51 PM PST by Irisshlass
On October 30, atheist Christopher Hitchens appeared on Dennis Miller’s Internet radio show condemning Mother Teresa, yet again. Here is one of his choice statements: “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.”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded today:
I once told Hitchens that one of the real reasons he hates Mother Teresa has to do with his socialist ideology: he believes the state should care for the poor, not voluntary organizations, and he especially loathes the idea of religious ones servicing the dispossessed. Indeed, he sees in Mother Teresa the very embodiment of altruism, a virtue he cannot—with good reason—fully comprehend.
The fact of the matter is that socialism is the greatest generator of poverty known to mankind, and Mother Teresa did more to heal and rescue its victims than anyone in the modern era. This explains why she is adored by the people who knew her best—the men and women of India (she is second only to Gandhi as the nation’s most revered person).
Hitchens is positively obsessed by Mother Teresa, and that is a very telling commentary on his psyche. She is a constant reminder that reason without faith is a dark hole.
Contact Hitchens at chitch8003@aol.com
I would challenge him to go follow one of her workers around for a few days. See what they see and do what they do alongside them. Then get back to me.
Yeah, they're pretty hot down there. ;-)
How vile and depraved do you have to be to talk about Mother Terresa that way? Heck, I bet even most atheists would say she was a wonderful ray of sunshine in this world. Shame on Mr. Hitchens.
Hitchens pi**ed off his buddies by support for the Iraqi war and he now needs to win them back. This is a piece of pathetic scum who the liberal media regularly calls on to diss on classical and especially conservative British writers and essayists. Ignore him.
The odd thing is, he’s kinda-sorta anti-abortion. He gave one interview to Dennis Praeger and another one some years ago to somebody from National Right to Life Committee (was it Dave Andrusko?) saying he thought the “fetus” was undoubtedly human. Didn’t say abortion should be illegal, just that the infant in the womb is not the moral equivalent of a tumor.
I don’t think anyone believes that the ministry of the Missionaries of Charity is *all* that should be done to assist the poor or to develop economic opportunity.
The dying destitute should be picked up off the street and cared for ... AND poor children should be taught reading and marketable skills AND adults should be helped to establish economic independence AND government economic restrictions should be loosed AND caste discrimination should be fought AND blahblahblah.
However, a religious order can’t be everything to everyone, and the MoC charism is to *give* to the most desperately needy.
This drunkard’s liver must be the size of a bath mat.
Old news - he’s been after her for a long time now...too bad people still listen to him...I think he was ignored growing up...his brother, Peter, writes for the Daily Mail (UK) and is a big Thatcherite conservative...he strikes out Chrissy *hick*
Hitchens is very pro-abortion. Of course he it. The guy is a lefty and only supports the War on Terror because we’re fighting Islamic terrorists. If we were fighting secular socialists he’d be opposed to it.
Christopher Hitchens is a rancid character and only the lack of discernment among conservatives deludes us into thinking he’s “with” us.
Even if Mother Theresa was “religion free” she would still be a blessed person who dedicated her life to truly helping the poor. She washed them and clothed them, she didn’t demand higher taxes so her union goons could be employed handing out the “goodies”.
On the Amazon page for Hitchen's book on Mother Teresa, there are some comments from people who actually did work with her. They seem to agree with Hitchens.
Particularly disturbing is that money sent to help sick children under the care of Mother Teresa was diverted for other uses. She had access to vast amounts of funds but apparently chose not to spend the money on even modestly improved medical facilities that would actually have saved the lives of the people she was caring for.
She probably would, and he is a big enough punk that he would take it too.
Two of my favorite quotes:
"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given."
"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."
That's precisely what poor Hitch doesn't like about her, or doesn't understand: that she was not a philanthropist fund-raiser, social worker, etc. Her source was God's love; her method, God's love; her goal, God's love.
I want to let everyone know the reason this topic came up.
It came up because Anita Dunn mentioned how much she admires Chairman Mao and Mother Theresa. Dennis Miller brought up the topic and Christopher Hitchens is sick and tired of his hero (Mao Tse Tung) being badmouthed.
Christopher Hitchens is a leftist through and through. He is only in favor of the War on Terror BECAUSE Muslims are being killed. That’s it!
Will we as conservatives stop being so in need of validation from the left that we think a vulgar lowlife like Christopher Hitches is “on board” and “one of us.” He’s not! Christopher Hitchens enjoys seeing Muslims killed. It brings him happiness.
That’s really all there is to the man.
I don’t want to harsh the `Two Minute Hitchens Hate’ buzz/orthodoxy here, but the evidence (below) is that Mother Teresa, previously Agnes Bojaxhiu, born a Macedonian of Albanian descent, died agreeing with Hitchens.
I think Hitchens’ problem with “good works” is that they tell people it’s OK for them to accept life on earth as a living hell because the afterlife awaits them.
And both Mother Teresa and C. Hitchens came to disbelieve in God and an afterlife, or at least that’s what she wrote in her twilight years.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Mother_Teresa_doubted_existance_of_God_0824.html
Hitchens is just an ass. There are legitimate criticisms of Mother Theresa, but Hitchens goes WAY too far into foaming-at-the-mouth blind hatred territory.
That’s why Hitch pays his taxes. He doesn’t want to get his hands dirty. Anyway his hatted of Mother Theresa is pathological. He probably hates himself because he know he is incapable of doing what anotherliberal, Albert Schweitzer did and as she did, which was actually to help people.
So what did she spend it on?
a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges, "If many believe so, it is so." This type of argument is known by several names,[1] including appeal to the masses, appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to the people, argument by consensus, authority of the many, and bandwagon fallacy, and in Latin by the names argumentum ad populum ("appeal to the people"), argumentum ad numerum ("appeal to the number"), and consensus gentium ("agreement of the clans").
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