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Summary: Hitchens tells it like it is!
Review: Most people will automatically be repelled at the idea of a book exposing the hypocrises and agendas of Mother Teresa, a woman described by many as a modern-day saint. Those who steer away will miss an excellent investigative novel that explores not only the motives of Mother Teresa, but the effect (or lack of) that she had on the world.
Do not fear that this book is simply a character assassination, either. Hitchens does not set out to slander or destroy Mother Teresa, and in fact even defends her in some instances, stating his belief that she was not a spiteful or evil woman, but simply did not do as much as good as she is thought to. A must read for anyone interested in the truth behind the legend.
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Summary: If this is true, this woman caused people to die...
Review: To the reader from Tennessee below, the reason it is important to read this book - and important to find out if Hitchens' allegations are true - is because Mother Teresa was a very powerful woman who set up a series of medical facilities which are still in operation. One of Hitchens' most disturbing criticisms - which has since been confirmed by former members of the Congregation - is that the millions of dollars' worth of donations sent to Mother Teresa by people like you and me were NEVER used to make these clinics more sanitary or to provide basic medical care for the indigent people who arrived at their doorstep. The reason, Hitchens says, that Mother Teresa is known for her work with the dying is that so many people died in her clinics! Listen, folks, if even *one* person died unnecessarily, that's one too many and more than enough justification for Hitchens to conduct this long-overdue investigation!
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Summary: Really hateful
Review: I'm not a Christian; I consider myself a leftist and an atheist. And certainly many of the critiques Hitchens mounts against the Catholic church and its practitioners have merit. But there is something so innately loathesome about going after Mother Teresa--of all people--in such a vindictive, mean-spirited manner. Most of his charges produced little more than a shrugging of my shoulders: did her words actually do that much to help Charles Keating? Is it a disgrace that she has undergone better health care treatment than her order can afford to provide? Should we think her a monster because she liked being friends with Princess Diana, and wanted to be exalted in spirit through her religious work? From its smarmy title alone, this book announces itself as an exercise in pure vindictiveness: I for one am sick of Hitchens, and wish he'd stop claiming to speak for the left.
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Summary: SSSSMOKING!
Review: This incendiary book is so hot I'm surprised it doesn't spontaneously combust! Hitchens packs more dyn-o-mite in this short monograph than other authors spend thousands of pages on. He totally demolishes the myth of this fraud.What is so amazing about the Mother Theresa story is how it lay there, out in the open - until a journalist of Christopher Hitchens' fearless disposition came along. None of the mainstream media would touch it, for fear of "offending" the faithful. Well, children, how do you like your Mother Theresa now? God will well and truly bless you, Christopher Hitchens, for having the guts to expose the frauds who come forward in his name.
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Summary: Mother Teresa: Dr. Kevorkian in drag.
Review: After reading this, I'm persuaded that while churches may be good for the soul, they're hell on the body.
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Summary: Superb Expose of a Cynical, Fraudulent Opportunist
Review: As an extremely devout Orthodox Jew, I read Christopher Hitchens' account of "Mother" Theresa with a mixture of sorrow and anger. Sorrow because it is sad to see people's faith in an icon destroyed; anger at the Catholic Church for perpetrating one of the greatest hoaxes of the century. Hitchens is a superb journalist of the Tom Wolfe school. He gets his facts straight, and not one of his targets escapes unscathed. You will never be able to think about "Mother" Theresa the same way after reading this book. Dynamite!
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Summary: It's about time someone pointed out the Hypocrisy
Review: Hitchen's book successfully deflates the "saintliness" of a con artist in a sheet. I find it interesting, that even in the face of so much evidence, Christian revues of this book take on a defensive whiny tone and beg the question: What's wrong with making people suffer? Suffering is good! It just goes to show that Christians once again will excuse ANYTHING as long as it is done "In the name of God". They want their little icon, and don't care what she did. As a Christian, I am embarrassed by this woman. Her agenda was to be declared a saint. That is a selfish motive any "TRUE" saint would not have. This is a wonderful book. Too bad people don't really want to look at the truth. Suffering does not enhance the human condition. To advocate suffering, one must be without a soul. If this woman's actions are acceptable to you, what does that say about your morals?
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Summary: A much-needed antidote to one of the biggest myths around...
Review: Christopher Hitchens brilliantly dismantles the Mother Teresa institution, revealing a very well-covered world of propaganda, greed, and fraud. He totally destroys the ill-founded popular conception that there is such a thing as a purely good man, a notion that, when bought by a huge chunk of humanity, can and does yield disastrous results for society.
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Summary: Are things taht bad?
Review: Things must be very sad for the left wing these days when the only target of scorn it can produce is a 4 foot 10 inch dead Catholic nun. Interesting that Christopher Hitchins, an icon of the left, choses someone like Mother Teresa to criticize so severely when she herself is so revered by the poor - the very people the left was supposed to champion. No wonder it has found itself so marginalized. For the record - I am by no means a right winger. I consider myself fairly far to the left, but Hitchins has earned himself no points with this silly ax grinding of his.
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Summary: So what?
Review: So what? Mother Teresa was a "traditional" Catholic. There are traditional Catholics and nontraditional Catholics. What is the point? It seems that Hitchins has a problem with the fact that a so called "traditional" Catholic is so revered around that world that he feels the need to debunk her image. Has it worked? I doubt so, as millions still admire her service to the weak and poor - yes even many of us who did not agree with all her conclusions, actions, and thoughts. I learned a long time ago that just because someone reaches different conclusions from me does not make that person evil, or bring into question their motivations. Maybe Hitchins too will grow up one day.
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