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(16,488 posts)Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,488 posts)There is, indeed, a great void now. We needed him.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)I didn't realize we were in the Hitch-olympics!
chillfactor
(7,672 posts)after watching the video.....that respect took a serious nose dive.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)He was a Gore Vidal wannabe, and not a very good one.
And Oh how he hated the Clintons!
Major Nikon
(36,877 posts)She also thought suffering was a gift from god and she was baptizing those within the care of her charity without any regard to their chosen religion. Those who want to focus on Hitchens rather than Mother Teresa or the facts presented appear to embrace ad hominem because that seems to be all they have to impeach the work.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Hitchens was a miserable drunken sot that didn't do anything but write nasty shit about everybody and everything. He wasn't worthy to clean Mother Teresa's toilet.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)You might want to pick a different metaphor.
struggle4progress
(119,445 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)As extensively documented her hospices were literally shitholes.
struggle4progress
(119,445 posts)About 85% of these cities have no sewage treatment facilities, so about 80% of the sewage remains untreated
http://cpcb.nic.in/newitems/12.pdf
struggle4progress
(119,445 posts)to serve a city of 600,000. The system has had little added to it and the original structure has significantly deriorated yet it is supposed to serve a city of now about 14 millions ...
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/calcutta.htm
Collapses of old brick sewers in Kolkata have become more frequent in the last years
http://www.bi-constructionnews.com/en_article_sewer_rehabilitation_in_Kolkata.news
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)struggle4progress
(119,445 posts)where about 875 million people do not have access to toilets and about 750 million people simply defecate openly
Major Nikon
(36,877 posts)So for someone to use their undeserved claim to fame to promote that shitbag position so vehemently is rather telling.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)You are you to judge anybody?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)trying to carefully enunciate Kolkata and putting the stress in all the wrong places."
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/09/02/492447039/tk
How do you pronounce it, warren? There's an audio at the link if you want to correct it.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Simple question.
rug
(82,333 posts)Simple question.
Do stay on track.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Why is this a question you can't answer rug? It's a very simple, yet very important question.
rug
(82,333 posts)Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Your refusal to answer speaks volumes to what the answer is.
rug
(82,333 posts)Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Stop the deflection and answer, do you agree with her stance on abortion?
Major Nikon
(36,877 posts)Meanwhile people are still quoting him after his death while you are still throwing rotten tomatoes anonymously on the interwebs.
Did you even bother considering statements like that work both ways?
And I've been to India and several other 3rd world areas, not that it has anything to do with the subject at hand and just seems like another lame lob on your part rather than dealing with the actual facts of matter.
rug
(82,333 posts)He was a war-mongering cheerleader of George Bush and his wars, and a failed trotskyite.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)will be the day that I would buy any of that nonsense. Forget it.
Major Nikon
(36,877 posts)No worries there.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)I'm fairly certain I'm a better person than he is.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Where did all that money go?
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/a-new-expose-on-mother-teresa-shows-that-she-and-the-vatican-were-even-worse-than-we-thought/
Why didn't she choose to honor god with her suffering, as she forced others to?
Mariana
(14,914 posts)She wasn't terribly interested in experiencing that particular gift from God herself, was she?
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)An expert.
Mariana
(14,914 posts)She died of a massive heart attack, is what was reported.
Another poster has already linked to reports about the appalling conditions and lack of treatment the inmates of her facilities endured. But when she sought medical attention, she went to modern hospitals to obtain it.
longship
(40,416 posts)guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)He was a piece of coal waiting to become a diamond. With enough pressure, and thousands of years, who knows.
longship
(40,416 posts)But I don't have to in order to love the guy. He was one of the greatest orators of our age. His religious oratory was splendid. god is not Great is an extraordinary read.
I don't throw people under the bus just because of a disagreement. That would be a stupid thing to do. And regrettably, all too common here on DU.
Hitchens was awesome.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
No point in pointless argument.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)Hitchens Disagrees with Catholic Church Doctrine
Big surprise there - not...
Major Nikon
(36,877 posts)The editor of the Lancet investigated and verified the same conditions as did others.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Mariana
(14,914 posts)Denial of pain relieving treatment to people who are dying was Mother Teresa's doctrine, not that of the RCC.