Mother Theresa was...

[Valmy]

Damn that is one Eastern European looking person.

I read somewhere she was born in the Ottoman Empire.

Well the Serbs liberated her homeland when she was a toddler.

[Martinus]

Damn, I thought she was white.

Support for her from Breitbart: plummetting. 

[HVC]

Damn that is one Eastern European looking person.

odd she looks Southern European to mee. Might just be the sepia thing.

[Martinus]

Damn that is one Eastern European looking person.

odd she looks Southern European to mee. Might just be the sepia thing.

I agree. She doesn't look Eastern European to me at all. She looks Romanian, Bulgarian or Roma.

[The Larch]

Damn that is one Eastern European looking person.

I read somewhere she was born in the Ottoman Empire.

From Wiki:

Born    Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
26 August 1910
Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
(modern Skopje, Republic of Macedonia)

She was ethnically Albanian. You guys seem surprised by this, I thought it was pretty well established.

[CountDeMoney]

Damn that is one Eastern European looking person.

odd she looks Southern European to mee. Might just be the sepia thing.

[spellus]The hawtest and most bootiful wimmins in the verld[/spellus]

[Razgovory]

Damn that is one Eastern European looking person.

odd she looks Southern European to mee. Might just be the sepia thing.

I agree. She doesn't look Eastern European to me at all. She looks Romanian, Bulgarian or Roma.

We consider those Eastern European.

[CountDeMoney]

We consider those Eastern European.

Just another example of how Marti thinks he's people.

[Valmy]

Damn that is one Eastern European looking person.

odd she looks Southern European to mee. Might just be the sepia thing.

I agree. She doesn't look Eastern European to me at all. She looks Romanian, Bulgarian or Roma.

We consider those Eastern European.

Yeah. My apologies. Southern Euro. She certainly does not look Polish or something.

[Valmy]

She was ethnically Albanian. You guys seem surprised by this, I thought it was pretty well established.

Since she is being judged for failing modern western secular values you can see why people might think she was a modern western secular person in someway.

[Razgovory]

She was ethnically Albanian. You guys seem surprised by this, I thought it was pretty well established.

Since she is being judged for failing modern western secular values you can see why people might think she was a modern western secular person in someway.

I think it goes deeper.  She fucks up the whole "religion is evil", idea promoted by people like Hitchens.  She must be presented as a monster because otherwise the whole philosophy unravels.

[Valmy]

I think it goes deeper.  She fucks up the whole "religion is evil", idea promoted by people like Hitchens.  She must be presented as a monster because otherwise the whole philosophy unravels.

I hardly think Hitchens required every single religious person be evil. Granted he is not around to ask anymore.

[grumbler]

I think it goes deeper.  She fucks up the whole "religion is evil", idea promoted by people like Hitchens.  She must be presented as a monster because otherwise the whole philosophy unravels.

I hardly think Hitchens required every single religious person be evil. Granted he is not around to ask anymore.

Don't interrupt the tribal narrative. Hitchens was evil and lacked all sense of nuance and that's all there is to it. He must be presented as a monster or the whole magical thinking philosophy unravels.

Personally, I think Hitchens was just too much in love with his own self-image, which was built around what he saw as telling the unwelcome truth, so he plunged ahead and believed (and I do think he believed; he wasn't trying to fool others) the most absurd "truths" if they were sufficiently "shocking."  His statement along the lines that "it is a matter of record that Mother Teresa was a fanatic and a fraud" shows how far he was deluding himself, because, of course, that wasn't a matter of record at all.  He just assumed that whatever he believed was self-evidently true and "a matter of record," and he lacked the humility and self-awareness to examine his own positions.

Of course, pretty much the exact same thing was true of Mother Teresa and is true of her uncritical defenders, as well.

[CountDeMoney]

You see that?  grumbler went Hitchens there.

[HVC]

You see that?  grumbler went Hitchens there.

you never go full Hitchens.