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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11. Of course Hitchens himself can now be debunked as thoroughly as he debunked Mother Teresa: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/772600859180077057 …
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12. Now, it's easy enough to find many, many examples of Hitchens being wrong. Via
@MaxBlumenthal Hitchens on Saddam http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/07/iraq-arab-saddam-iran-hitchens …3 replies 5 retweets 53 likes -
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13. Hichens went from placing his hopes in Saddam to being Paul Wolfowitz's mouthpiece -- surely a case of two bad extremes.
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14. And for the prosecution I'd also add that while Hitchens was an often delightful writer to read he was a dangerous model to imitate.
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15. By dangerous model to imitate I mean Hitchens was (like Hemingway, Kerouac, Hunter Thompson) too admired by men as a great rogue male.
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I smell misandry on the wind. Is every Hitch fan a rogue bro?
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Apparently, not *all* of India mourned her passing. The Cult of Suffering had its hometown dissenters: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/world/asia/mother-teresa-critic.html …
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Sure, and I respect Chatterjee for doing the research Hitchens was too lazy to do.
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His research was sufficient unto the day: re-use of needles, the cult of suffering, cozying up to dictators. Do we need more?
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What is asserted without evidence can be denied without evidence. Hitchens didn't really provide evidence on key claims.
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