THEIST_WATCH
  Msg  : 76                                         Written : 08/11/94 06:19pm
  From : ROBIN MURRAY-O'HAIR                        Status  :                 
  To   : ALL                                                                  
  Subj : "Mother" Teresa                                                      

                         "Mother" Teresa

     In his new book, _For the Sake of Argument,_ Christopher Hitchens
remarks on "Mother" Teresa of Calcutta. With what can only be called
kindness he describes here as "a dangerous sinister person who properly
belongs in the caboose of the Pat Buchanan baggage train."
     It seems that while in Calcutta for a visit in the early 1980s he
stopped at her Missionaries of Charity in Bose Road which had the motto
("He that loveth correction loveth knowledge.") He had the opportunity
to take a walk with her and described her as having "a butch style" as
she accepted kisses bestowed on her feet, taking them as no more than
her due.
     He saw her fight against birth control propaganda as representing
"the Vatican's heinous policy of compelling the faithful to breed."
     He kept his eye on T.M. then for a number of years and was
appalled as she turned up in Haiti to "sanctify the vulture-like
regime" of Papa Duvalier. She next was seen in Beirut to bind up
Lebanon's wounds as a guest of the Phalangists. She then went to her
home country, Albania, to cozy up with Hoxha's successor (Ramiz Alia)
who had been a member of the ultra-fascist Albanian Youth of the Lictor
which advocated the forcible conversion of the Balkans to Roman
Catholicism. Later during the hectic times of the S&L bonanza in the
United States she "nursed at the ample tit of Charles Keating" of
Lincoln Savings and Loan of California, receiving $1.4 million and the
use of a company plane.
     The book sounds like a delight. American Atheists is in the
process of ordering it.


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