Ah, yes, Hitchins. A Vanity Fair columnist is certainly well qualified in this area. I notice he raises a lot of innuendos, but precious few facts. He says that her money has been going to build convents "somewhere in Kenya," but doesn't suggest that he has ever tried to visit one, or find one. (Nor does that suggest that she has millions in the bank.)
Hitchins, of course, revels in trying to destroy people of some public interest. Kissinger, for example. guardianunlimited.co.uk.
Clinton. (Well, maybe he had a point there.) salon.com. He claims that "William Jefferson Clinton (who never needed to inhale, by the way, because he baked his marijuana into cakes and cookies) ..." I have never heard or read this anywhere else, and there were enough people after Clinton that one would think if this were verifiable it would have been all over the place. Is it accurate, or did Hitchins make it up? Is he the sort of writer who makes it up as he goes along? pipes.org
Hitchins admits to being a dedicated Marxist. www-hoover.stanford.edu Of course, Marxism is antithetical to Christianity, so it's hardly surprising that he would revel in trying to tear down a Catholic idol.
One commentator actually calls it "hatred," and writes "When I read about the bishop and Father Barham, I kept thinking of
Christopher Hitchins' hatred for the late Mother Teresa. Of course part of
the reason Hitchins disliked Teresa was that she sucked up to dictators
(Baby Doc Duvalier) and thieves (Charles Keating) as long as they
contributed to her cause, but I think the main reason for Hitchins'
animosity is that Teresa believed it was more important for the poor to
abstain from practicing contraception or abortion than for them to live
comfortably in the material. Such a position is hard for an atheist like
Hitchins, or me for that matter, to understand. I don't think a supposed
Christian like the bishop would have understood such a stance, at least not
viscerally. He would be familiar with the words, but would look askance at
someone who actually believed that the Kingdom of Heaven was more important
than life here on earth."
trollope.org
Frankly, when you put Hitchins up against the Nobel Peace Prize committee, I'll go with the Nobels. Hitchins's honesty, objectivity, and reportorial ethics are, let's be kind, questionable. Maybe you have other, objective analysts who have more trustworthy information? |
