Mother Theresa was an Atheist?

[Aspirin99]

It sure sounds that way.

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msFullArt.asp?an=14550

[phrog]

20 or so years ago I had the utmost admiration for Teri, I lost most of that in later years, long before Christopher Hitchens wrote such an expose about her. Third season of Penn and Teller's Bullshit had an episode called Holier than Thou which really trashed her, which also included a short interview with Hitchens. Now they want to tell me she had leanings toward Atheism? I'll have to rethink and at least give her points. Alas, her acceptance speech (http://www.quoteworld.org/speeches/mother-teresa-nobel-prize-acceptance) for her Nobel prize shoots most of anything positive I can say about her.

[David]

The book where that story is from is this one:

Amazon.com: Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: Books: Mother Teresa,Brian Kolodiejchuk

I'm almost intrigued enough to order it! Although, I first need to get through a few small Ayn Rand books on Philosophy which I just picked up.

[stan2reason]

Harris posted an essay (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sam_harris/2007/08/the_sacrifice_of_reason.html) on the Washington Post/Newsweek site regarding the MT issue.

[phrog]

I haven't read it yet but this week's Time mag has a cover story "The Seceret Life of Mother Theresa"

[formerfundie]

Harris posted an essay (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sam_harris/2007/08/the_sacrifice_of_reason.html) on the Washington Post/Newsweek site regarding the MT issue.

Ask yourself, when even the doubts of experts are thought to confirm a doctrine, what could possibly disconfirm it?

If dawkin's isn't god, then harris is....

[phrog]

Here's Hitchen's take o the issue from Newsweek (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20497111/site/newsweek/)

[stan2reason]

Ask yourself, when even the doubts of experts are thought to confirm a doctrine, what could possibly disconfirm it?

If dawkin's isn't god, then harris is....

Couldn't agree more.