2. In the wake of Mother Teresa's canonization, many people are bringing up the best anti-Teresa polemic, Hitchens' Missionary Position
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3. Like many people, I was much taken with The Missionary Position when it first came out. Two-thirds of it are a brillian debunking.
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4. Where Missionary Position works best is destroying media myths around Teresa (stuff on that fraud Malcolm Muggeridge are great).
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5. And Hitchens pointedly calls attention to stuff sentimental centrist media avoids: Teresa's anti-contraceptive stance & sqalid politics
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6. Where the Missionary Position falls apart is that to decisively make case Hitchens has to show Teresa's hospitals were no good.
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7. Hitchens makes a few gestures in that direction with second hand reports but as so often doesn't do reporting to seal his case.
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8. Allied with lack of reporting is general absence of Indian voices. Teresa lived most of her life in India & was polarizing figure.
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9. Reason I could never fully accept Hitchens was I knew that although she was controversial, Teresa had many non-Catholic admirers in India
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10. When Teresa died, the government of India declared a week of mourning -- indicating a level of respect in India Hitchens didn't address
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this is a misrepresentation. She did not have a high level of respect, she had near universal acclaim.
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Don't think it was that universal. Many right-wing Hindus disliked her.
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when she died they were way out of the mainstream and their complaints were not about the quality of her charity.
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