arsCynic reviewed Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens
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4 stars
If this book was a Youtube video, the likely title would be: "Hitchens UTTERLY DESTROYS mother Teresa".
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Missionary Position
4 stars
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by the British-American journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens published in 1995. It is a critique of the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa, the founder of an international Roman Catholic religious congregation, and it challenges the mainstream media's assessment of her charitable efforts. Only 128 pages in length, it was re-issued in paperback and ebook form with a foreword by Thomas Mallon in 2012.The book's thesis, as summarized by one critic, was that "Mother Teresa is less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs."
Review of 'The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
When religious zealots hold power, it is very difficult to topple them. However, Hitchens does a fine job of exposing perhaps the biggest fraud, of the 20th century.
