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    The document provides a summary of Christopher Hitchens' book "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice". Hitchens offers a critique of Mother Teresa and argues she was a religious fundamentalist who opposed measures to end poverty and associated with tyrants and criminals. While celebrated as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Hitchens asks her reputation be judged by her actions, not the perceptions of her. Through meticulous study, he recasts Mother Teresa as a despotic and megalomaniacal figure who longed fraternized with the wealthy for financial gain.

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    The document provides a summary of Christopher Hitchens' book "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice". Hitchens offers a critique of Mother Teresa and argues she was a religious fundamentalist who opposed measures to end poverty and associated with tyrants and criminals. While celebrated as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Hitchens asks her reputation be judged by her actions, not the perceptions of her. Through meticulous study, he recasts Mother Teresa as a despotic and megalomaniacal figure who longed fraternized with the wealthy for financial gain.

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    Christopher Hitchens, "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Prac tice" ISBN: 1455523003 | 2012 | EPUB/MOBI

    | 128 pages | 2 MB/863 KB "A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kin d. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. I t is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word." Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than THE MISSIONARY POSITION, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous study of the life and deeds of Moth er Teresa. A Nobel Peace Prize recipient beatified by the Catholic Church in 2003, Mother T eresa of Calcutta was celebrated by heads of state and adored by millions for he r work on behalf of the poor. In his measured critique, Hitchens asks only that Mother Teresa's reputation be judged by her actions-not the other way around. With characteristic elan and rhetorical dexterity, Hitchens eviscerates the fawn ing cult of Teresa, recasting the Albanian missionary as a spurious, despotic, a nd megalomaniacal operative of the wealthy who long opposed measures to end pove rty, and fraternized, for financial gain, with tyrants and white-collar criminal s throughout the world.

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