Ivy league atheists (wait, is that redundant?) are doing their best Christopher Hitchens by attacking Mother Teresa. It’s kind of funny. You can always tell how effective a Christian is by the level of animosity leveled at them.
It’s like every time you hear the words Pope Benedict and Nazi used in the same sentence, an angel gets its wings. It’s the same with Mother Teresa, you know that her work on earth converting people to Christ is still going strong by the vociferousness of the attacks against her.
The Atheists Humanists Agnostics (AHA) club sent out a campus-wide e-mail announcing the program on Tuesday and promising a “full-out romp against why one of the most beloved people of the century, Mother Teresa, is as Hitchens put it… ‘a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf.’”
Mother Teresa is widely known for her life’s work of aiding the poor and comforting the sick.
The e-mail says the group plans to screen an anti-Mother Teresa film, discuss Hitchens’ book, Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and question how the public has been “conned into thinking this woman [Teresa] was good.”
The e-mail states Teresa, who is on her way to sainthood in the Catholic church, “was not a friend of the poor,” but “was a friend of poverty.”
The email links to a now infamous article by the late Christopher Hitchens which attempts to debunk much of the lore that surrounds Teresa.
The event has ignited controversy on the Ivy League campus, with students telling Campus Reform they were upset AHA was hosting such an event.
“It’s easy for a group of privileged Ivy League students who have never experienced poverty to meet in a ‘super secret room’ and think themselves as intellectuals by bashing Mother Teresa,” Melanie Wilcox, Executive Editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review, told Campus Reform.
“I’d like to know what they have done, if anything, to help the needy,” she added.
AHA President Adam Hann, however, defended the event, but admitted he had intentionally used “provocative” language in the e-mail to excite interest among students.
“What I like to do is, when there are areas that people just get vitriol or angry even for bringing it up, I like to go and have that discussion,” said Hann.
Hann added that he estimates about five to ten people will participate in the event slated for this Saturday.
Five to ten people. Compare that with the millions who take inspiration from Mother Teresa daily.
November 26, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Interesting how they use the Hitchens quote that apparently finds being an "Albanian dwarf" worthy of criticism. Very intellectual.
November 26, 2012 at 3:36 pm
The fact of the matter is that the militant atheists don't want an honest discussion. Confront them with the obvious and they start with the insults and the attacks. Then they go off into the old canards about the inquisitions, the crusades and the holocaust. Same old tripe. They're only looking for one thing and that's attention. Ignore it!
November 26, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Sounds like they should be losing their status as a campus organization for being a "hate group".
November 27, 2012 at 8:34 am
I'm just amused by the fact that, in the book "How Not to Write a Novel", the section on "don't make your villain a one-dimensional cartoonish bad guy" uses, as its example, "These villains unselfishly dedicate all their free time to plotting Mother Teresa's downfall, without any cash incentive or reason to hate Mother Teresa other than 'her phony nice act makes me see red.'"
Psst. Atheists. Maybe people wouldn't assume you were bad people if you didn't, y' know, act like such stereotypical bad people.
November 27, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Wow. Because with all the murderers, drug dealers, human traffickers, husbands who abuse their wives, etc., the only person they could find to pick on was Mother Theresa? Pretty shameless plea for attention, I'd say.
November 28, 2012 at 3:27 am
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November 28, 2012 at 3:28 am
Reminds me of William Murray, Madalyn Murray O'Hair's son, who commented back in his atheist days that he suggested their group set up some charitable activities. His follow atheists weren't interested in such a positive endeavor.
Seems that too many atheists are bent on tearing people and communities down. I know who'll they will blame for it, but why the negativity