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skepticscott

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8. +1 But don't expect an answer with any substance

Reply to onager (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 06:15 AM

Sep 2012

It's a favorite tactic of folks to try to attack what Hitchens wrote (on many topics) on the basis of anything but the merits. Yes, he was a drunk, an ass and a bully at times, but he almost always knew far more of what he spoke about than his critics, who (just as here) generally shrank from engaging him about the facts on the ground.

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My Take: The Mother Teresa you don�t know [View all] cbayer Sep 2012 OP

Somehow I'm not surprised okasha Sep 2012 #1

This is not the first negative piece done on her Goblinmonger Sep 2012 #2

It's not a negative piece. okasha Sep 2012 #3

No, Hitchens got her exactly right. onager Sep 2012 #4

+1 But don't expect an answer with any substance skepticscott Sep 2012 #8

"he was a drunk, an ass and a bully at times" - OK! Nice role model. Starboard Tack Sep 2012 #21

Who said he was a role model? skepticscott Sep 2012 #22

But he didn't say what okasha claimed him to say. Goblinmonger Sep 2012 #24

I seriously doubt that I am attacking fellow atheists. Starboard Tack Sep 2012 #27

Not surprised at all. cbayer Sep 2012 #5

"...the guy who defended waterboarding (even after experiencing it!)..." Rob H. Sep 2012 #12

Ah, the harsh sunlight of more facts skepticscott Sep 2012 #14

From The Guardian okasha Sep 2012 #17

The Guardian quote is incomplete and out of context Rob H. Sep 2012 #19

Are you surprised? Cherry-picking and quote mining is permissible in order to make a point. cleanhippie Sep 2012 #20

What, you expected intellectual honesty skepticscott Sep 2012 #23

Busted and humiliated again! trotsky Sep 2012 #26

Dear trots. okasha Sep 2012 #28

So you aren't going to admit that, best case scenario, that you were wrong? Goblinmonger Sep 2012 #29

Uhm, Goblinmonger, I wasn't lying. okasha Sep 2012 #30

From your post (#1 on this thread): Goblinmonger Sep 2012 #31

This particular quote, no. okasha Sep 2012 #32

Then you were just wrong. trotsky Sep 2012 #34

Because I'm right. okasha Sep 2012 #36

You sure are, kash. trotsky Sep 2012 #37

Dear kash, trotsky Sep 2012 #33

Glad to know you still have one. okasha Sep 2012 #35

Teresa is given a pass for a lot of things others are demonized..and even jailed for. Vehl Sep 2012 #6

How much of this do you think she was aware of? Do you think she was complicit? cbayer Sep 2012 #7

You just can't help but be an apologist skepticscott Sep 2012 #9

"Suffering" was an important... rexcat Sep 2012 #15

I'm sure she was very aware. unapatriciated Sep 2012 #10

I wondered about the degree of your first hand experience and very much appreciate your cbayer Sep 2012 #11

anyone who went to parochial school or attended catechism in the 60's knows the pain of a nuns ruler unapatriciated Sep 2012 #13

I think the accusations being leveled here go a step beyond rulers on your knuckles. cbayer Sep 2012 #16

Untrue. okasha Sep 2012 #18

She must have been fully aware, as she had an iron grip on her charity's governance Vehl Sep 2012 #25