Mother Teresa

Part 1



Here is a 3-part series I found on youtube. It is a criticism of Mother Teresa by Christopher Hitchens, an outspoken anti-theist and generally inflammatory writer.

I watched all three parts, and I definitely think that Hitchens is being too harsh. No one is perfect, but Mother Teresa has spent much more time caring after the poor and dying than Hitchens would in a dozen lifetimes.

I do think that if you are going to make abortion as your biggest issue (which Mother Teresa did), then you need to support and invest in contraceptives. Mother Teresa, on the other hand, said that both abortion and contraceptives were the greatest threat to peace around the world. This is an ignorant and wrong position, but it doesn't maker her an evil person. It makes her a good woman with a misguided belief system.