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wonder where Mother is now?a very hot suana, perhaps? | The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice | Christopher Hitchens

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	• The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice Christopher Hitchens Verso, 1997 - 98 pages average customer review:based on 138 reviews view larger image
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Mother Teresa, a monstrous myth

In addition to the above book please see the one by Dr. Aroup Chatterjee, "Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict". He has researched MT over many years and gives detailed evidence that seems to be incontrovertible. In fact, it was his efforts that gave birth to the TV documentary narrated by Hitchens. Chatterjee's book is published by Meteor Books, Calcutta (see their site www dot meteorbooks dot com). See also a review of the book on Amazon. In September 1998 the German magazine Stern published a devastating article entitled "Mother Teresa: Where are her millions?". A Google search using the article's title will lead you to websites that have reproduced it. The height of deceit, in the name of God! She will rot in hell.

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The grand jury would indict...

If you're looking for the case against Mother Teresa, this is not it. Christopher Hitchens's purpose was narrower, and intelligently so. The Missionary Position is only an indictment of Mother Teresa.

But don't let that "only" fool you. What Hitchens does superbly here is wonder, quite persuasively, "Why hasn't anyone ever questioned this woman?" He alleges sufficient particularized facts to create a reasonable doubt about the means and ends of someone whose saintliness has always been taken for granted. Hithchens's charges are compelling enough to make you conclude discovery and a wider investigation are necessary, but he never carries out a full-on prosecution.

Besides consorting with unsavory characters (and taking their money), Mother Teresa's greatest trespass, according to Hitchens, was accepting the mantle of compassionate caretaker of the poor, while harboring a philosophy that celebrates suffering and does little for the poor but let them wretch, surreptitiously convert them, and let them die so that they might go to heaven. Meanwhile, her well-to-do patrons in the developed world sleep well at night after having written her a check, knowing that they have done good. Her unbending opposition to any contraception also doesn't win her any points in Hitchens's scorecard, but what does he expect from a Catholic nun?

If you believe in God, you might take offense to how easily and unapologetically Hitchens dismisses any notions of a creator or afterlife or other mysticisms. But if this is the case, I don't think this book was written for you; I think he wrote this book assuming (at the very least) an informed secularism on the part of the reader. As always, Hitchens proves to be a good and interesting writer, and I recommend this book.

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wonder where Mother is now?a very hot suana, perhaps?

At face value, this book is damning to the reputation of Mother
Teresa. And this is exactly where most reviews should end. But in my opinion, this book is well written, terse and funny. Morality has nothing to do with Christianity, and this is the sad part about religion in general. Yes, Chris Hitchens is not Mother Teresa's biggest fan, but he writes this book through facts, and and the questionable deeds of the subject herself. That's why this book has been really helpful to me. I know nothing about Mother Teresa except the saintly portraiture I see on television once in a while and sadly, on top of my patients' overhead tables who are dying or suffering from pain. She was a patient at one of the most exclusive hospital in Torrey Pines in California sometime in the early 90's. People that work there still talk about it as though they were visited by the Virgin Mary herself. But when I ask basic questions like, Why did she have to came all the way here in La Jolla, CA to ge treated? Who is she anyway? And stuff like, who paid for her treatment? I was treated like a bothersome child and at worst a heretic for asking such questions. I guess we have lost our own ability to be objective. In conclusion,I value this book for being a tool of objectivity. I should drop a start though, because it was too short.

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Inflammatory whistle-blowing.

Mother Teresa has become a cliche -- in and outside India. A figure known so well for charity and generosity that even the late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi -- who was incidentally also called a Mother by millions of Indians -- couldn't resist her (media) charm. Indira Gandhi sterilization for the masses as a govt. policy, while the subject of her affection was openly against birth control and undid what is right for the country.

Such is the charm of Mother Teresa that the government of India is planning on instituting an award on her name. While, in fact, Mother Teresa has tarnished the image of India. In a way, probably, Mother Teresa symbolizes all that is wrong with India -- and the world, and much more.

Mr.Hitchens provides a compelling picture of Mother Teresa; her cunning and clever manipulation; her innate instinct for dramatization and image building. It is a story of how the old religion meets the glitter of the new mass media.

Mr.Hitchens insinuates and is 'ad hominem' at times. Which clearly could have been avoided; he would rather let the 'evidence' do the talking -- which he provides enough of.

Although the investigation on Mother Teresa is not exhaustive, whatever Mr.Hitchens presented was worth looking at. All that the media presents as digestible is sometimes not; Mr.Hitchens' book proves that. Saints have no souls and evil is peddled with dogma.

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