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The big lie about Mother Teresa: glorifying suffering instead of relieving it
- DrScump 11y agoA similar WP story from 2015, posted to HN in December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10762326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10762326
- icebraining 11y agoNot a word about Hitchens? He had been writing about this for over 20 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position
- cholantesh 11y agoIn my experience, bringing up Hitch in this context has been highly counterproductive to discussion. People tend to look at his assessment of Teresa as nothing more than an extension of his anti-theistic views. Obviously, this doesn't stand up to scrutiny, but it happens nonetheless.