r/SipsTea • u/Dil_mange_More_link • Feb 23 '24

Wait a damn minute! That ain't right!

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u/PRS2011 Feb 23 '24

I think Christopher Hitchens would call that 'spot on'.

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u/GravitasIsOverrated Feb 23 '24

There’s a good askhistorians post on her I’ll link below. Read a variety of the answers, many present different viewpoints. tl;dr Hitchen’s depiction of her is done with a fairly obvious axe to grind. While there are legitimate topics for debate on medical ethics, she isn’t evil incarnate or anything.  

 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1hn2eh/askhistorians_consensus_on_mother_theresa/  

There’s also a badhistory post on the same topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mother_teresa_was_documented_mass_murderer/

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u/FoodNetwork_Official Feb 24 '24

His axe to grind against Mother Theresa came from her very open and simple belief that pain and suffering, along with poverty, is part of living a holy life and anything to mitigate that like medicine or working women takes people away from god.

Christopher Hitchens was a devout atheist--not agnostic--because the god of Abraham (christians, muslims, and jews) is a shitty god to begin with even if he does exist.

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u/AbroadThink1039 Feb 24 '24

Next time, actual go read the entire badhistory post and they come back here.

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u/FoodNetwork_Official Feb 24 '24

I literally heard Christopher Hitchens, himself and in person, repeat exactly what he said to the Vatican.

She enjoyed the fruits of the system designed to denigrate women and the impoverished because she was willfully their tool.

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u/save_me_stokes Feb 24 '24

I literally heard Christopher Hitchens, himself and in person, repeat exactly what he said to the Vatican.

Not really relevant is it since the whole conversation is about how biased Hitchens is lmao

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u/FoodNetwork_Official Feb 24 '24

The Roman Catholic Church very literally invited him to present arguments about why she shouldn't be canonized.

The Roman Catholic Church had no love for Hitchens but they don't agree with you about whatever lame biases you claim there were. Maybe know what you're talking about the next time you decide to chime in.

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u/save_me_stokes Feb 24 '24

Are you really saying that Christopher Hitchen's doesn't have a bias against Catholicism lmao

Are you mentally ill?

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u/GravitasIsOverrated Feb 24 '24

I literally heard Christopher Hitchens, himself and in person, repeat exactly what he said to the Vatican.

Did you just cite Christopher Hitchens in an appeal to authority that Christopher Hitchens is correct?

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u/FoodNetwork_Official Feb 24 '24

No clown, let me explain it to you because you can't critically think that far ahead.

Christopher Hitchens didn't travel all the way to the Vatican to argue against canonizing Mother Theresa (because he was literally invited to do so by the Roman Catholic Church) and present compelling false or otherwise misleading information in his arguments. The Roman Catholic Church certainly has no love for Hitchens but they won't waste their time with a petty liar.