What is Reddit's opinion of
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice?
From 3.5 billion Reddit comments
By popularity on Reddit, this product is:
24 reviews of this product found across Reddit:
She was a monster. She fetishized suffering, and was the cause of so much of it that it's unfortunate that there's no hell for her to suffer in. Although she probably would love it.
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
You can stop at the number after /dp/. Everything beyond that is superfluous and is used to track link sharing back to your account.
>https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1455523003/
Will get people to the same place, but it's much cleaner and without the tracking links.
Even after I left the Catholic Church and religion all together I still held a kind of reverence for Mother Teresa. Learning the truth about her - and knowing how deceived most ppl still are - is still beyond disturbing. I’m looking forward to this podcast, ty. Hitchen’s book, The Missionary Positionis insightful, harsh, and angry… highly recommend!
Hitchens's book "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice": "A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word."
Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than THE MISSIONARY POSITION, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa.
A Nobel Peace Prize recipient beatified by the Catholic Church in 2003, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was celebrated by heads of state and adored by millions for her work on behalf of the poor. In his measured critique, Hitchens asks only that Mother Teresa's reputation be judged by her actions-not the other way around.
With characteristic élan and rhetorical dexterity, Hitchens eviscerates the fawning cult of Teresa, recasting the Albanian missionary as a spurious, despotic, and megalomaniacal operative of the wealthy who long opposed measures to end poverty, and fraternized, for financial gain, with tyrants and white-collar criminals throughout the world.
It was the late Christopher Hitchens who first taught me about the inhumanity of Mother Teresa, though I'd watched a lot of clips of his I haven't read his book, The Missionary Position.
What does it mean to be a wretched person? Maybe it means to be someone who feels no greater joy than watching another suffer unto death, just to feel the satisfaction of being there, when in all their desperation and without basic respite, accepting your religion on their deathbed.
By her own accounts she watched nearly 30,000 people come through her doors, and with broken empathy managed to convince them that their suffering only brought them closer to god. I'd like to know how anyone came to the conclusion that this woman was worthy more than anybody else of earning a Nobel peace prize.
Well, Mother Theresa is an expert on the subject. She left humans in her care to die in pain, denying them medical care and antibiotics. Her policies led to deaths from untreated injuries and diseases in the filthy, poorly managed hospices she ran (The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice https://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1473084988&sr=8-1&keywords=hitchens+mother+teresa&linkCode=sl1&tag=chitch-20&linkId=58b39e60ab5d4a6a041d265dc54c8221)
Christopher Hitchins had quite a bit more to say about her; she cozied up to the Duvalier family who ran Haiti as a savage dictatorship for years and considered Charles Keating (disgraced savings and loan executive who bankrupted hundreds of elderly retirees when his pyramid S&L investment bank collapsed due to his greed and mismanagement) as her good friend.
She also opposed contraception and compared contraceptives to abortion, even though India women begged for them so they wouldn't be forced to give birth every year.
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Is a great book by - Christopher Hitchens
Time to end religion.
​
https://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003
Hitchens noted in his evaluation of Mother Theresa that after her, they did away with "Devils Advocate" and this process is pretty much just marketing.
Christopher Hitchens wrote a book about her that details how awful she was.
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Hitchens also recorded a short documentary about the subject.
Since you mentioned him, this seems like an appropriate place to mention Hitch's book about Mother theresa
Penn and Teller's Bullshit did a quick segment on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4nCaxHN-cY
Christopher Hitchens wrote an entire book on it:
http://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428101413&sr=8-1&keywords=the+missionary+position
If you're into more academic stuff I think the most recent study done on her was by Serge Larivée from University of Montreal. Sadly the thing is in French, but it basically boils down to what's listed here:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/uom-mta022813.php
I definitely agree with Christopher Hitchens on Mother Teresa
I don't need to read any more apologetic Theist literature, the market is already SATURATED with the fallacious claims.
I'd much rather read about REAL things, and people.
Feel free to enlighten yourself on the real actions of Mother Teresa.
And the name of said book...The Missionary Position (God I miss Hitchens)
https://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003
Alternatively, you could read the dear late Hitchens' excellent <em>The Missionary Position</em> (available in fine bookstores everywhere).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa
http://www.amazon.com/The-Missionary-Position-Mother-Practice/dp/1455523003
Pablo just wanted money. Mother Teresa revelled in suffering.
> she helped thousands of sick and needy.
No she didn't.
> just because you don't believe in the same thing she fors doesn't mean she's a monster
She believed in achieving spiritual zen through the suffering of others. That is evil.
> She's done more good than you ever will.
Not sure about that. She may have done good (on rare occasions), but her body of work was evil without question. I will never cause the same amount of suffering to any one individual, that she did to thousands.
Her legacy lives on:
He wrote a whole book about her.
Edit: spelling
Popular alternatives to The Missionary Position: Mo...
Aquinas (A Beginner's Guide)
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
