Monday, January 18, 2010

Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa


See also: 'Hell's Angel: Mother Teresa' by Christopher Hitchens

11 comments:

  1. I would really like to see him talk some time, but I think 5 minutes in an audience with the type of cackling, pretentious sycophants these sorts of speakers tend to attract would make me go postal.

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  2. Mother Theresa was highly overrated.  She worked extensively to prohibit birth control to countries most in need of it.  She's a fraud and a evil woman.  Saint.  Indeed.

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  3. Read Aroup Chatterjes book "The final verdict". The first three chapters are online.

    There is so much more Hitchens could have said about Theresa.

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  4. WTF are  you talking about?

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  5. They aren't all as bad as the crowd in this video.

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  6. Oh, now I get it.  Blake was engaging in the fallacy of extrapolating from one single example by assuming this was a typical audience "these sorts of speakers tend to attract".

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  7. <span>Blake you're a turd.  I have no idea if that's particularly 100% true but feel it's something I must say since I do agree completely--no, <span>completely</span>.  Sycophancy sucks--and this video as well as innumerous others and situations I have witnessed live and in person are full of it.  It's nauseating.  And disheartening.</span>

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  8. Uhhhh so I'm a turd that you agree 100% with......hmmmkayyy.

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  9. Um no actually I've seen plenty of of his talks on video and the sort of people in the audience that I'm referring to seem to pretty much be a universal annoyance.

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  10. Those crowds are mostly for his talks in bookstores and other "booksigning"-events. Naturally almost everyone attending such an event is a fan. His debates otoh attract mixed crowds. Or you could invite a bunch of your superior friends and make sure the crowd is a scoffing kind, instead of the laughing one.

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  11. Blake, one musn't confuse things here. The cackling you're referring to is simply menopausal ladies flushing red hot for the hitch.

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