[religion] Why Mother Teresa Should not be a Saint — Christopher Hitchens on the canonization of Mother Teresa … ‘I discovered that she had taken money from rich dictators like the Duvalier gang in Haiti, had been a friend of poverty rather than a friend of the poor, had never given any account of the huge sums of money donated to her, had railed against birth-control in the most overpopulated city on the planet and had been the spokeswoman for the most extreme dogmas of religious fundamentalism. Actually, it’s boasting to say that I “discovered” any of this. It was all there in plain sight for anyone to notice. But in the age of celebrity, nobody had troubled to ask if such a global reputation was truly earned or was simply the result of brilliant public relations.’
Chris Hitchens on Mother Teresa
This entry was posted on Friday, January 3rd, 2003 at 11:52 pm and is filed under Politics, Religion.
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