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The Missionary Position - Christopher Hitchens

Description: ISBN 185984054X / Author: Christopher Hitchens / Genre: Biography / Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by Ronald Reagan, Margaret ... more

The Missionary Position - Christopher Hitchens ... Thatcher and the House of Windsor, and eulogized throughout the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta has entered that most select of sanctums: the house of living saints. But, as Christopher Hitchens argues, all is not as it seems in the canonization of Saint Teresa. In a searching examination of the Teresa cult, Hitchens recasts our relationship with Mother.

Newest Review: ... When Jose Saramago won the Nobel Prize for literature the Vatican issued a statement against the award, and anything that can ... more

... rile up the Catholic hierarchy certainly demands our attention. Hitchens book elaborates on the problem with religion: that it discounts all those who do not practice the given religion. The Abrahamaic religions do not teach us how to live with honor. Mother Theresa saves mythical souls, and gives purpose to suffering, true humanitarians alleviate suffering and teach us to live as best we can without the carrot of heaven or the threat of hell. Catholicism is great in its two-faced idealogy that does not help ...more

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The Missionary Position - Christopher Hitchens: Missionary Position is my favorite (197 words)
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This book is great. I was traveling in Kathmandu, Nepal, went into a bookstore and this title grabbed me. I wondered why I never heard of the book in the US. Upon looking further I discovered the idea of the book was an essay attacking Catholicism. When Jose Saramago won the Nobel Prize for literature the Vatican issued a statement against the award, and anything that can rile up the Catholic hierarchy certainly demands our attention. Hitchens book elaborates on the problem with religion: that it discounts all those who do not practice the given religion. The Abrahamaic religions do not teach us how to live with honor. Mother Theresa saves mythical souls, and gives ...

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