Hitchens affects the virtues of being honest, objective and reasonable. Concerning Mother Teresa and the Passion he is obviously not.
You quote a long tract from Hitchens attacking Mother Teresa. Why do you believe it? The people who knew here best appreciated her.
By SUSAN CABA CALCUTTA, India -- The truest tribute to Mother Teresa Saturday was in the streets of her adopted city. While cardinals, queens, diplomats and politicians paid homage in a state funeral that stressed her devotion to the have-nots of the world -- but included few of them -- tens of thousands of poor and working-class Indians assembled behind barricades to watch her cortege pass.
She was saying this when it was not cool:
God told us, "Love your neighbor as yourself." So first I am to love myself rightly, and then to love my neighbor like that. But how can I love myself unless I accept myself as God has made me? Those who deny the beautiful differences between men and women are not accepting themselves as God has made them, and so cannot love the neighbor. They will only bring division, unhappiness, and destruction of peace to the world. For example, as I have often said, abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today, and those who want to make women and men the same are all in favor of abortion.
Here's a short biography. She's done far more than Hitchens will.
I have no opinion on it one way or the other. This is not about me and what I believe.
You are the one that used the word "hypocrite" to describe Hitchens.
In the excerpts I provided, Hitchens portrayed contradictory behaviors by various people.
The names of the people involved aren't important.
My question to you was, and is, what word would you use to define such behaviors -- if they indeed did occur as he stated? That's all.