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To: Made In The USA
Hutchins should learn to be respectful and tolerant of people of faith, we are the majority, and it will serve him well in life.

"What is needed from the supporters of this very confident faith is more self-criticism and less self-pity and self-righteousness" -Christopher Hitchens

At least Hitchens was consistent.

34 posted on 11/20/2012 1:09:16 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth" - Voltaire)
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To: Oztrich Boy; Made In The USA; Tax-chick
The Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints -- the department which investigates and approves/disapproves of people "nominated" for sainthood --- invited Christopher Hitchens to Rome to testify against Mother T., which means, to be what is colloquially termed the Devil's Advocate, to present evidence to the effect that she did not lead a life of heroic virtue. They paid his expenses and duly took his deposition.

I'm reasobnly sure it followed the lines of his many Down-With-Mother-Teresa magazine articles: it evidently wasn't enough to derail the canonization process.

I spent almost 2 decades admiring, often disagreeing with, but usually enjoying Hitchens' writings. Although he had a hodgepodge of knowledge as well as loads of style, he was at best sophomoric --- and at worst, snake-mean and turkey-stupid--- abou Mother T or anything to do with Catholicism. I'm mentining this only because. in the hundreds of venues that were open to Hitchens' anti-Teresa venom, the most surprising must the Vatican itself, which was admirably open to whatever he had to say.

I'll go into greater detail to anyone who asks!

If I were the Judge--- which thanks be to God I'm not--- I'd handcuff Hitchens (d. 2011) to Pope Innocent III (d. 1216) in purgatory. They'd about deserve each other. At the end, salted, dry-roasted and saved, they'd enter heaven friends, and merrily, thanks no doubt to Mother T's prayers, and ours.

Y'all can pray for me, too, in case they have three-person shackle sets. I'll bring the popcorn.

35 posted on 11/20/2012 2:16:17 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (What does the Lord require of you but to act justly, to love tenderly, to walk humbly with your God.)
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To: Oztrich Boy; Made In The USA; Tax-chick
The Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints -- the department which investigates and approves/disapproves of people "nominated" for sainthood --- invited Christopher Hitchens to Rome to testify against Mother T., which means, to be what is colloquially termed the Devil's Advocate, to present evidence to the effect that she did not lead a life of heroic virtue. They paid his expenses and duly took his deposition.

I'm reasobnly sure it followed the lines of his many Down-With-Mother-Teresa magazine articles: it evidently wasn't enough to derail the canonization process.

I spent almost 2 decades admiring, often disagreeing with, but usually enjoying Hitchens' writings. Although he had a hodgepodge of knowledge as well as loads of style, he was at best sophomoric --- and at worst, snake-mean and turkey-stupid--- abou Mother T or anything to do with Catholicism. I'm mentining this only because. in the hundreds of venues that were open to Hitchens' anti-Teresa venom, the most surprising must the Vatican itself, which was admirably open to whatever he had to say.

I'll go into greater detail to anyone who asks!

If I were the Judge--- which thanks be to God I'm not--- I'd handcuff Hitchens (d. 2011) to Pope Innocent III (d. 1216) in purgatory. They'd about deserve each other. At the end, salted, dry-roasted and saved, they'd enter heaven friends, and merrily, thanks no doubt to Mother T's prayers, and ours.

Y'all can pray for me, too, in case they have three-person shackle sets. I'll bring the popcorn.

36 posted on 11/20/2012 2:16:29 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (What does the Lord require of you but to act justly, to love tenderly, to walk humbly with your God.)
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To: Oztrich Boy; Made In The USA; Tax-chick
The Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints -- the department which investigates and approves/disapproves of people "nominated" for sainthood --- invited Christopher Hitchens to Rome to testify against Mother T., which means, to be what is colloquially termed the Devil's Advocate, to present evidence to the effect that she did not lead a life of heroic virtue. They paid his expenses and duly took his deposition.

I'm reasobnly sure it followed the lines of his many Down-With-Mother-Teresa magazine articles: it evidently wasn't enough to derail the canonization process.

I spent almost 2 decades admiring, often disagreeing with, but usually enjoying Hitchens' writings. Although he had a hodgepodge of knowledge as well as loads of style, he was at best sophomoric --- and at worst, snake-mean and turkey-stupid--- abou Mother T or anything to do with Catholicism. I'm mentining this only because. in the hundreds of venues that were open to Hitchens' anti-Teresa venom, the most surprising must the Vatican itself, which was admirably open to whatever he had to say.

I'll go into greater detail to anyone who asks!

If I were the Judge--- which thanks be to God I'm not--- I'd handcuff Hitchens (d. 2011) to Pope Innocent III (d. 1216) in purgatory. They'd about deserve each other. At the end, salted, dry-roasted and saved, they'd enter heaven friends, and merrily, thanks no doubt to Mother T's prayers, and ours.

Y'all can pray for me, too, in case they have three-person shackle sets. I'll bring the popcorn.

37 posted on 11/20/2012 2:16:45 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (What does the Lord require of you but to act justly, to love tenderly, to walk humbly with your God.)
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