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The Missionary Position
- Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word." Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa.
A Nobel Peace Prize recipient beatified by the Catholic Church in 2003, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was celebrated by heads of state and adored by millions for her work on behalf of the poor. In his measured critique, Hitchens asks only that Mother Teresa's reputation be judged by her actions-not the other way around.
With characteristic élan and rhetorical dexterity, Hitchens eviscerates the fawning cult of Teresa, recasting the Albanian missionary as a spurious, despotic, and megalomaniacal operative of the wealthy who long opposed measures to end poverty, and fraternized, for financial gain, with tyrants and white-collar criminals throughout the world.
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- Anuradha
- 11-07-19
There was much more to be said
I have no complaints about the narrator. Hitchens is a renowned atheist, who inspired several people to look both beyond and behind-the-scenes of theism. We Indians along with the rest of the world continue to worship her, consider her the epitome of motherhood and sacrifice. To call baloney on all that is not easy, and hitchens is one of the most vocal to speak out about what was really going on, and I have great respect for the man. The book was fairly engaging. I have not fact checked personally, but I did indeed know about a few of these things from other sources. That said I felt there was so much left out. Her mansions, her dying "disciples" yes it was talked about, but nowhere near how much could have been. And I know he had much more to say, it's an ocean of dissatisfaction with the amount that was talked about mother Theresa. I wonder why he took that route - was he threatened? Was he trying to keep it small?. But it still remains a cautionary tale for the humanity which is often more than willing to blindly trust religious charlatans.
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