Atheist group at Dartmouth plans anti Mother Teresa event

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Atheist group at Dartmouth plans anti Mother Teresa event

3759 1448Google +33 292 By Oliver Darcy, on Nov 16, 2012

An atheist group at Dartmouth College is planning an event aimed at skewering the reputation of the late Mother Teresa.

The Atheists Humanists Agnostics (AHA) club sent out a campus-wide e-mail announcing the program on Tuesday and promising a “full-out romp against why one of the most beloved people of the century, Mother Teresa, is as Hitchens put it… ‘a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf.’”

Mother Teresa is widely known for her life’s work of aiding the poor and comforting the sick.

The e-mail says the group plans to screen an anti-Mother Teresa film, discuss Hitchens’ book, Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and question how the public has been “conned into thinking this woman [Teresa] was good.”

The e-mail states Teresa, who is on her way to sainthood in the Catholic church, “was not a friend of the poor,” but “was a friend of poverty.”

The email links to a now infamous article by the late Christopher Hitchens which attempts to debunk much of the lore that surrounds Teresa.

The event has ignited controversy on the Ivy League campus, with students telling Campus Reform they were upset AHA was hosting such an event.

“It’s easy for a group of privileged Ivy League students who have never experienced poverty to meet in a ‘super secret room’ and think themselves as intellectuals by bashing Mother Teresa,” Melanie Wilcox, Executive Editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review, told Campus Reform.

“I’d like to know what they have done, if anything, to help the needy,” she added.

AHA President Adam Hann, however, defended the event, but admitted he had intentionally used “provocative” language in the e-mail to excite interest among students.

“What I like to do is, when there are areas that people just get vitriol or angry even for bringing it up, I like to go and have that discussion,” said Hann.

Hann added that he estimates about five to ten people will participate in the event slated for this Saturday.

Mother Teresa is widely known for founding the Missionaries of Charities, a charity tasked with aiding the poor. She was beatified in 2003 by Pope John Paul II, a step toward possible sainthood.

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The Catholic church has supported thousands of hospitals around the world. How many have Atheists started and kept running?

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Obama at the UN: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”

Will the Kenyan step in on this christian issue as well?

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What do they hope to accomplish with this?

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Obama at the UN: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam”

Will the Kenyan step in on this christian issue as well?

why would you expect the president to get involved? people are free to have a negative opinion of mother theresa, who cares?

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why would you expect the president to get involved? people are free to have a negative opinion of mother theresa, who cares?

Mother Teresa > Susan Rice

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Mother Teresa > Susan Rice

what? you want a dead person to be ambassador to the u.n?

that's smart.

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what? you want a dead person to be ambassador to the u.n?

that's smart.

Hadn't thought about that, but that might not be a bad idea. However, I do believe Mother Teresa was a citizen of India. BTW, how many Security Council resolutions have the living US ambassadors blocked or vetoed, thwarting the democratic will of the world?

Edited November 23, 2012 by The Patriot

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Hadn't thought about that, but that might not be a bad idea. However, I do believe Mother Teresa was a citizen of India. BTW, how many Security Council resolutions have the living US ambassadors blocked or vetoed, thwarting the democratic will of the world?

mother teresa believed that suffering was a gift from god. pretty sure she'd thwart the democratic will of the world too. i was only trying to understand why you brought up susan rice?

obama should most definitely stop this event from happening, it is so completely comparable to him stating that extremist islam shouldn't be allowed to hijack the religion.

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mother teresa believed that suffering was a gift from god. pretty sure she'd thwart the democratic will of the world too. i was only trying to understand why you brought up susan rice?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqKVanhvqGI

Chivalry should extend to all women.

Edited November 23, 2012 by The Patriot

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Chivalry should extend to all women.

i don't get the correlation, it must be profoundly deep.

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i don't get the correlation, it must be profoundly deep.

It seems obvious to me that some folks want to besmirch the reputation of a good woman, and Obama has stepped up to the plate in the past, to protect that reputation.

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It seems obvious to me that some folks want to besmirch the reputation of a good woman, and Obama has stepped up to the plate in the past, to protect that reputation.

difference being that mother teresa has nothing to do with government/politics. and this is a small event occurring on a college campus. small potatoes..

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Apparently the President should have an opinion on everything, and voice it. Even when it has nothing to do with politics.

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difference being that mother teresa has nothing to do with government/politics. and this is a small event occurring on a college campus. small potatoes..

Apparently the President should have an opinion on everything, and voice it. Even when it has nothing to do with politics.

So, it was just about politics after all? I am shocked!

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So, it was just about politics after all? I am shocked!

what was just about politics? obama defending rice? yes that would be the realm of politics.

college kids having a not so popular opinion about mother teresa? nothing to do with politics. i'd say that would fall under the realm of catholicism.