doriangrey on August 31, 2007 at 11:11 AM

What’s so smart about Hitchens? The man said he’d love to fight in an American civil war so he could kill right wing Christians. You’re wrong about him not being your enemy. He is your enemy just as much as Osama is. Hitchens just doesn’t have the power, guts or brains to do what Osama did and simply settles for opening his mouth and saying something stupid. Supporting the war in Iraq is not something smart people do, it’s something EVERYBODY should be, especially when one is a liberal atheist. If fundamentalist Islam takes over, all you or I have to do is pay a head tax. Hitchens would get his melon chopped. He has more reason to want to fight this war than I do. Just becase he isn’t brain dead like evey other anti-war liberal doesn’t mean he’s smart either.

When you view her work through that prism, it becomes clear why Hitchens calls her The Ghoul of Calcutta.

Krydor on August 31, 2007 at 3:27 PM

You would have to be smoking some pretty damn serious crack to even think of viewing it through that “prism”. I find it no strange thing that those peering through this “prism” are those who attack Christianity at every opportunity. For that non-existent being that atheists don’t believe in sake the last thing we can have is some one like Mother Teresa actually being REAL…

He is an opportunistic Marxist.

Hey, I’m all for capitalism, but consider the source. He has books to sell…and opinions he puts out there lay his base….

just sayin’

Somehow, half of the country doesn’t know that Nick Berg and Danny Pearl are only the first of us to meet the new masters head on.

Everyone else is next -if this movement of violent, intolerant “religious” despotism isn’t defeated.

What good is gaining power if you only use it to allow our civilizational suicide?

Anything that does not weaken the Jihad strengthens it.

And its aim is clear: a global theocratic gulag.

How this kind of future doesn’t worry half of the nation is what is worrisome.

We must all hang together, or the Jihad will hang us one by one.

profitsbeard on August 31, 2007 at 1:18 PM

Magnificent post, profitsbeard. Hear! Hear!

His last comment about religion made me toss my intellectual cookies (the few that I have). Religion is not the problem…the way people of any faith twist religion towards demonic ends is. It’s not the faith, it’s the people, stupid!

Translation: “I disagree strongly with what Hitchens has to say, but I am incapable of formulating a reasoned counter-argument. Therefore, I’m going to slur Hitchens personally in the vain hope that he’ll shut up and go away. And, even if he sticks around, then my expressions of hatred will help me to feel better. And maybe others will have second thoughts about supporting Hitchens knowing that so many people hate him!”

Loundry on August 31, 2007 at 3:49 PM

Christopher Hitchen’s wild fantasies regarding Mother Theresa have less backing than any religion Chris criticizes. Next you’ll be asking us to defend 9/11 Truth.

You are right to say that Christopher Hitchens remarks about Mother Teresa are ghoulish. There is a strong undercurrent to Hitchens that is foul and ghoulish. He strikes me as the type of person that cries louder and louder and whinier and whinier, “Look at me, Everyone look at me, I’ve got something to say.” “I’m saying something, why isn’t everyone looking at me.” He acts like the spoiled brat everyone wants to slap upside the head.

marianpaul on August 31, 2007 at 10:54 AM

Translation: “I disagree strongly with what Hitchens has to say, but I am incapable of formulating a reasoned counter-argument. Therefore, I’m going to slur Hitchens personally in the vain hope that he’ll shut up and go away. And, even if he sticks around, then my expressions of hatred will help me to feel better. And maybe others will have second thoughts about supporting Hitchens knowing that so many people hate him!”

doriangrey

It’s a trifle deeper than that. Her religious beliefs led her to allow and condone the suffering of those in her care because (and I hope I’m absolutely wrong on this) she thought the more they suffered in this life the better the reward in the afterlife.

When you view her work through that prism, it becomes clear why Hitchens calls her The Ghoul of Calcutta.

Haven’t fact checked this, but that is the basis for his dislike.

Krydor on August 31, 2007 at 1:32 PM

If I read Hichens correctly the basis for his dislike of Mother Teresa was actually the fact that she was religious, his hatred for all things religious is truly venomous.

~B (Old PoliPundit days)

Good to see you are still spreading the good word.

Hot Air is my home, so yeah, all my blogging is here. You can find years of my old stuff at JunkYardBlog though. That’s where I blogged before we launched Hot Air.

Bryan on August 31, 2007 at 12:43 PM

Thanks, Bryan. I really enjoy your stuff. If you ever go solo, it’d probably be my first and last stop of the day. I look forward to checking out your old stuff.

Nothing is difficult for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.
- Murphy

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

You can’t get there from here.
- New York cab driver

For some reason it always seems like the left wants to see our soldiers with pillows jumping on the beds of our enemies whilst soft downy goose feathers float lazily through the air and girly giggles rain upon our Carebear/My Little Pony beadspreads.
….

Keep in mind that these places weren’t/aren’t medical clinics, but places the terminally ill go to die after no one else would take them in.

Haven’t fact checked this, but that is the basis for his dislike.

And if they had simply stood behind our effort to defeat this expansionistic and unholy terror that is openly attempting to slaughter its way to power and (by its brutal and immoral intimidation) subjugate the world.

By confusing the fact of the Jihad with their mere political aims and their local power strugggles, they blindly and brainlessly weaken the nation when we are fighting for our, and the West’s survival.

Somehow, half of the country doesn’t know that Nick Berg and Danny Pearl are only the first of us to meet the new masters head on.

Everyone else is next -if this movement of violent, intolerant “religious” despotism isn’t defeated.

What good is gaining power if you only use it to allow our civilizational suicide?

Anything that does not weaken the Jihad strengthens it.

And its aim is clear: a global theocratic gulag.

How this kind of future doesn’t worry half of the nation is what is worrisome.

We must all hang together, or the Jihad will hang us one by one.

Sweet… :)

Professor Blather on August 31, 2007 at 12:19 PM

Hot Air is my home, so yeah, all my blogging is here. You can find years of my old stuff at JunkYardBlog though. That’s where I blogged before we launched Hot Air.

It’s no more ghoulish to sneer at the death of Mother Teresa than it would be to sneer at the death of Osama bin Laden.

Enrique on August 31, 2007 at 10:49 AM

Congrats, Enrique. In one sentence you authored the single dumbest thing I’ve ever read on the Internet.

And there is a lot of dumb on the Internet.

Moral equivalence between Mother Theresa and Osama bin Laden. I’ve now officially seen everything and can die happy. How about Princess Diana and Genghis Kahn? Were they close?

Wow.

I’ll let you know if anybody challenges your Crown of Stupid. It’s a big Internet so I wouldn’t doubt it.

But man, you’ve raised the bar with this one! Well done!

Enrique on August 31, 2007 at 10:49 AM

I believe intentions matter.

I especially like this line:

It almost seems accidental that he’s on the right side of the war in Iraq.

It is nothing short of bizarre to watch someone who is both very smart and very wrong on so many issues … also articulate so clearly the reasons we are in Iraq.

I wonder if you’re right about the Islamist versus Leftist paradigm? I hope not, but Hitchens own words on Vietnam suggest you’re right.

Do you have a personal blog elsewhere? Is all your blogging done here?

Enrique on August 31, 2007 at 10:49 AM

The worst that can possibly said about Mother Teresa is that she might have been naive about the causes of suffering and therefore advocated solutions to it that don’t work. The best that you can say about bin Laden is that at least his mass murder isn’t driven by entirely base motives: He believes, somewhere in there, that he’s serving a calling higher than himself.

But still, bin Laden is an imperialistic mass murderer on a global scale, and Mother Teresa devoted her life to trying to help the poor. So there’s really no comparison between the two that’s at all valid, and it’s nonsense to suppose that there is. Hitchens is flat wrong about her. Just flat wrong.