Moderated Book about Hitchens claims he almost converted

[zooterkin]

She was beatified as "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta". Her canonization has been scheduled for 4 September 2016. Until then, she is Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, not Saint Theresa.

She'll always be the thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf to me.

 

[The Big Dog]

She'll always be the thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf to me.

And Hitchens will always be a sloppy writer and researcher, and a drunken British bigot to me.

 

[ddt]

And Hitchens will always be a sloppy writer and researcher, and a drunken British bigot to me.

He was anything but sloppy in his research to the question whether waterboarding is torture. Unlike all those chickenhawks in the Bush Jr. administration.

 

[Desert Fox]

She was beatified as "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta". Her canonization has been scheduled for 4 September 2016. Until then, she is Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, not Saint Theresa.

She'll always be the thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf to me.

And Hitchens will always be a sloppy writer and researcher, and a drunken British bigot to me.

I am perfectly fine with personal dislike of Hitchens. . . .What I have a problem with is the awe and worship which Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu gets.

That is the thing. . . .Atheists are free to disagree with Hitchens, Dawkins, Darwin, etc. We also have to in no way worship any of them.

 

[The Big Dog]

He was anything but sloppy in his research to the question whether waterboarding is torture. Unlike all those chickenhawks in the Bush Jr. administration.

Is this a joke? I intentionally left out Hitchens decade long cheerleading with brutal offensive war against Muslims and Iraq:

Hitchens was obviously more urbane and well-written than the average neocon faux-warrior, but he was also often more vindictive and barbaric about his war cheerleading. One of the only writers with the courage to provide the full picture of Hitchens upon his death was Gawker‘s John Cook, who — in an extremely well-written and poignant obituary — detailed Hitchens’ vehement, unapologetic passion for the attack on Iraq and his dismissive indifference to the mass human suffering it caused, accompanied by petty contempt for those who objected (he denounced the Dixie Chicks as being “sluts” and “*********** fat slags” for the crime of mildly disparaging the Commander-in-Chief). As Cook put it: “it must not be forgotten in mourning him that he got the single most consequential decision in his life horrifically, petulantly wrong”; indeed: “People make mistakes. What’s horrible about Hitchens’ ardor for the invasion of Iraq is that he clung to it long after it became clear that a grotesque error had been made.”

He was a racist bigoted drunken chickenhawk.

That so many "skeptics" fall for his ignorant infantile attacks on Blessed Theresa of Calcutta baffles me.

 

[ComfySlippers]

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That so many "skeptics" fall for his ignorant infantile attacks on Blessed Theresa of Calcutta baffles me.

That so many "religious" are too scared to admit that a man in a silly dress decides what are really real miracles is the joke.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Is this a joke? I intentionally left out Hitchens decade long cheerleading with brutal offensive war against Muslims and Iraq:



He was a racist bigoted drunken chickenhawk.

That so many "skeptics" fall for his ignorant infantile attacks on Blessed Theresa of Calcutta baffles me.

I have never read anything from Dawkins on "Mother" Teresa (spit). I have only read her own words and those convince me she was a miserable, lying, spiteful, deluded hypocrite.

YMMV

 

[jimbob]

I am perfectly fine with personal dislike of Hitchens. . . .What I have a problem with is the awe and worship which Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu gets.

That is the thing. . . .Atheists are free to disagree with Hitchens, Dawkins, Darwin, etc. We also have to in no way worship any of them.

Indeed, and nobody is claiming that Hitchens has literally performed any miracles.

 

[catsmate]

Is this a joke? I intentionally left out Hitchens decade long cheerleading with brutal offensive war against Muslims and Iraq:



He was a racist bigoted drunken chickenhawk.

Isn't that a bit of a double standard given your obsession with "Radical Islamic Terrorism"?

That so many "skeptics" fall for his ignorant infantile attacks on Blessed Theresa of Calcutta baffles me.

You mean factual and verified exposure.

 

[The Big Dog]

Isn't that a bit of a double standard given your obsession with "Radical Islamic Terrorism"?


You mean factual and verified exposure.

My what? By the way, super tu quoque fallacy.

Hitchens' Book was called Missionary Position, to the thrill of Ninth Graders all over the world.

I am a bit relieved though that no one is trying to justify his decade long lust for total war in the Middle East that made Dick Cheney look like.... Mother Theresa.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

My what? By the way, super tu quoque fallacy.

Hitchens' Book was called Missionary Position, to the thrill of Ninth Graders all over the world.

I am a bit relieved though that no one is trying to justify his decade long lust for total war in the Middle East that made Dick Cheney look like.... Mother Theresa.

And what exactly has this to do with the fact that by her own words "Mother" Teresa (spit) was a lying, hypocritical, uncaring, mean spirited, cruel, sorry excuse for a human being?

 

[Joey McGee]

war against Muslims

Crazy conspiracy theory.

He was a racist

Evidence?

chickenhawk.

Evidence?

That so many "skeptics" fall for his ignorant infantile attacks on Blessed Theresa of Calcutta baffles me.

So in your mind, Hitchens was the only person who ever criticized ever and everyone only criticized her because he did and they are all fanboys?

Entertaining...

 

[The Big Dog]

And what exactly has this to do with the fact that by her own words "Mother" Teresa (spit) was a lying, hypocritical, uncaring, mean spirited, cruel, sorry excuse for a human being?

Actually the thread is about hypocritical, bigoted, mean spirited, cruel, sorry excuse for a human being, neo-con warmonger Chris Hitchens (drink!) not Nobel Prize Recipient The Blessed Theresa of Calcutta....

 

[abaddon]

That so many "skeptics" fall for his ignorant infantile attacks on Blessed Theresa of Calcutta baffles me.

Regardless of your ad hom attacks against him, the fact remains that he was indeed correct. She really was a poisonous Albanian dwarf who took pleasure in the suffering of others. Nothing blessed about the evil little witch at all.

 

[catsmate]

My what?

Your obsession with Islam and Muslims. Do you read your posts?

By the way, super tu quoque fallacy.

Actually, no.

Hitchens' Book was called Missionary Position, to the thrill of Ninth Graders all over the world.

So what?

I am a bit relieved though that no one is trying to justify his decade long lust for total war in the Middle East that made Dick Cheney look like.... Mother Theresa.

I see you've abandoned trying to defend that vile woman.

 

[The Big Dog]

Regardless of your ad hom attacks against him, the fact remains that he was indeed correct. She really was a poisonous Albanian dwarf who took pleasure in the suffering of others. Nothing blessed about the evil little witch at all.

Set irony meter to warp ten! When did "albanian" and "dwarf" become acceptable perjoratives anyway.

No matter, noting that Hitchens was an incompetent researcher and bigot is not fallacious, nor is pointing out that his spittle soaked hatred of all things religious (ultimately culminating in his decade long fetish with war in the middle east again Islam) shows his bias.

It is bizarre that the author of this book is trying to in some small measure redeem hitchens who was mentally and intellectually bankrupt decades before he died.

 

[jimbob]

Regardless of your ad hom attacks against him, the fact remains that he was indeed correct. She really was a poisonous Albanian dwarf who took pleasure in the suffering of others. Nothing blessed about the evil little witch at all.

Look, nobody's claiming that she was a saint

 

[Desert Fox]

Compare what "Mother" Teresa did to Edmund Hillary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_Trust

 

[The Atheist]

Actually the thread is about hypocritical, bigoted, mean spirited, cruel, sorry excuse for a human being, neo-con warmonger Chris Hitchens (drink!) not Nobel Prize Recipient The Blessed Theresa of Calcutta....

Oh, that is priceless!

No matter what anyone thinks of Hitch, he was absolutely not directly responsible for thousands of deaths.

Exactly unlike the filthy Albanian nun who lost her faith. I hope it preyed on what passed for her mind in her final days that maybe she should have tried using all those millions for treatment instead of throwing it at the church.

As for Nobel Peace prizes, I'm afraid their value dropped to zero the day gave one to Kissinger.

There is nothing admirable about Teresa of Hades.

It is pretty funny how Hitch's name is nowadays automatically related to Teresa, though.

 

[The Big Dog]

Oh, that is priceless!

No matter what anyone thinks of Hitch, he was absolutely not directly responsible for thousands of deaths.

Exactly unlike the filthy Albanian nun who lost her faith. I hope it preyed on what passed for her mind in her final days that maybe she should have tried using all those millions for treatment instead of throwing it at the church.

As for Nobel Peace prizes, I'm afraid their value dropped to zero the day gave one to Kissinger.

There is nothing admirable about Teresa of Hades.

It is pretty funny how Hitch's name is nowadays automatically related to Teresa, though.

It is odd that people seem insistent on repeating Chris's incompetent slurs. I mean do you really expect people to believe that because Blessed Theresa ran hospice for the poorest of the poor that she was a muderer? Please.

Chris was the last of the 19th century type of Brit, arrogant, drunken colonialist, virulently anti-Catholic bigot. He had more in common with Trevelyan than modern people.

It would be to his benefit if his name was associated with a Saint, instead his last decade means that his name is associated with neo-conservative warmongers like Cheney.

Maybe his history caused him to consider conversion as the author of the book suggests.