For some reason, people are only now realizing Christopher Hitchens' distaste for Mother Teresa. It's like they started paying attention to the world a week ago.
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Christopher Hitchens doesn't like Mother Theresa
Category: Policy and Politics
Posted on: October 31, 2009 11:15 PM, by Josh Rosenau
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In other DIsco news:
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated.
What a bunch of pathetic wankers.
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Martin
Posted by: MartinDH | November 1, 2009 5:39 AM
This is one of the things that Hitchens definitely gets right. Although to be honest I was very disappointed by "Missionary Position" because it was basically just this relentlessly vitriolic diatribe with a half-dozen or so facts propping it up. He could have done a much better job.
Posted by: apuleius platonicus | November 1, 2009 5:44 AM
So you are saying they gone far past the Enlightenment in history? You are so generous.
Posted by: a lurker | November 1, 2009 7:20 AM
Wow, they really are behind the times, aren't they. Next thing you'll know they'll have caught up with the fact that he has a pathological hatred of the Clintons. I've always suspected Bill got a date with a woman who turned Hitchens down back at Oxford. Either that or Hitchens figured out which side paid more in this decade.
There was a lot to criticize about Mother Teresa's administrative and medical knowledge, and her anti-contraception-anti-choice position too. But Hitchens isn't a credible critic.
Posted by: Anthony McCarthy | November 1, 2009 9:16 AM
But what about Francisco Franco? Is he still dead?
Posted by: Zeno
| November 1, 2009 10:56 AM
"...it’s a shame there is no hell for your bitch to go to." ~ Hitchens
Oh Hitchens, what's wrong with you? Seriously, you forgot to mention the hypocritical, pedophile Pope deserves a spot alongside that insane, deluded cunt.
Posted by: fsereqwrfwef | November 1, 2009 11:27 AM
I really like the theory about Hitchens and Clinton back in the day Oxford. But, yeah, it was probably the money. It would be very interesting to see a plot of his income before and after he became a cheerleader for the War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq.
Posted by: apuleius platonicus | November 1, 2009 12:49 PM
Never was there a more inappropriate name than the Discover Institute.
Posted by: T. Bruce McNeely | November 1, 2009 4:49 PM
Of course, I mean the Discovery Institute.
Posted by: T. Bruce McNeely | November 1, 2009 5:36 PM