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Read the Christopher Hitchens book, The Missionary Position, on MT. It shows her to be unreasonable and hypocritical.
Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith
Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear.
— Mother Teresa to the Rev. Michael Van Der Peet, September 1979
On Dec. 11, 1979, Mother Teresa, the "Saint of the Gutters," went to Oslo. Dressed in her signature blue-bordered sari and shod in sandals despite below-zero temperatures, the former Agnes Bojaxhiu received that ultimate worldly accolade, the Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance lecture, Teresa, whose Missionaries of Charity had grown from a one-woman folly in Calcutta in 1948 into a global beacon of self-abnegating care, delivered the kind of message the world had come to expect from her. "It is not enough for us to say, 'I love God, but I do not love my neighbor,'" she said, since in dying on the Cross, God had "[made] himself the hungry one — the naked one — the homeless one." Jesus' hunger, she said, is what "you and I must find" and alleviate. She condemned abortion and bemoaned youthful drug addiction in the West. Finally, she suggested that the upcoming Christmas holiday should remind the world "that radiating joy is real" because Christ is everywhere — "Christ in our hearts, Christ in the poor we meet, Christ in the smile we give and in the smile that we receive."
Yet less than three months earlier, in a letter to a spiritual confidant, the Rev. Michael van der Peet, that is only now being made public, she wrote with weary familiarity of a different Christ, an absent one. "Jesus has a very special love for you," she assured Van der Peet. "[But] as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak ... I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have [a] free hand."
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Read the Christopher Hitchens book, The Missionary Position, on MT. It shows her to be unreasonable and hypocritical.
I find him to be a total jerk, so I don't think I'll bother with his book.
Too bad. Jerk or not, he's a tremendous writer. I know nothing of his personality, which apparently is to my benefit. I try to separate the "art from the artist", myself.I find him to be a total jerk, so I don't think I'll bother with his book.
Anyway, it was more of a recommendation to everyone reading this thread, which so far is you and me.
A great human being was not perfect, and struggled with her faith.
O.K.
He writes like a jerk, though...
Hitchens is one slow talking, often times in a condscending tone a jerk, but he is smart..
I've made the comparison before, but Ann Coulter's pretty smart too.
Just saying.
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