Teresa(refusing pain meds to someone in terminal stages of cancer): Think of your pain as kisses from Jesus. Patient: Please ask Jesus to stop kissing me.
“Teresa (refusing pain meds to someone in terminal stages of cancer” References and citations please this is a myth. These are reviews of Hitchens book about mother Teresa (The Missionary Position). Of course you will have to take it in good faith and on face value like Hitchens did with his so called witnesses, half truths and accounts that these reviews are reliable sources. “As an atheist and a person who insists on following logical principles, I'm extremely disappointed with this book. The fact that it's less than 100 pages of large print with no appendix of citable sources says a lot about the substance of this book, or lack thereof. The language is extremely leading, and reading this book gave me the same feeling of revulsion I got watching the logic-free documentary Vaxxed. Hitchens will weirdly focus on one thing and then go on for pages as if it's some sort of damning evidence. For instance, the book starts off talking about a photo that exists of MT with Michele Duvalier. And the Duvaliers are bad. And there she is, right there in the photo with one of them. And they're holding hands and looking at each other. Right there in that photo. With the bad woman. And she's smiling. And she doesn't deny it. And therefore MT is a horrible person, the worst kind of person, and it's totally obvious. He goes on for pages with stuff like this, and it's a very tedious read. He also weirdly makes her out to be horrible and fanatical because she takes Christian stances, like being anti-abortion. Really? The missionary Christian nun buys into the Church's position on abortion? Shocking. Or not. It's also apparently her fault that people claim that she performed miracles that she never once claimed to have performed. I mean, he's bashing her because the Church sainted her and he thinks her miracles were a sham. Yet, he's an atheist, which means that he thinks all miracles and saints are a sham. Why is MT somehow worse than the rest? He's also fixated on her forgiving people, questioning by whose authority she forgives, and what right does she have to forgive, and no one asked her for forgiveness. As if each of us doesn't have the right to forgive others for the slights and errors we perceive in them. The only semi-valid points Hitchens makes are that she might have spent the money that was donated to her in a more constructive way, and that she took money that maybe she shouldn't have taken, or that she should have returned. But he doesn't even do a good job validating those positions. For instance, maybe she could have built a hospital for the poor as he points out, but her mission was giving comfort to the dying, not curing the sick. All in all this book was a waste of time. It's nothing more than a lame attempt to tarnish another person, and for no obviously valid reason. It's a takedown for the sake of takedown, and it's utterly unconvincing.” “As an atheist reader, I was expecting Hitchens to expose Mother Teresa as some sort of phony based on what I heard about this book. Instead, he merely speculates about her alleged intentions and smears her with basically no supporting evidence whatsoever. I expected more from Hitchens, who holds himself out as a provider of truth. This book was completely pointless - it told me nothing about Mother Theresa other than that Christopher Hitchens has a baseless hunch that she wasn't as great a person as many people believe her to be.” “It appeared to me that Hitchens had already formulated his opinion of this nun who spent her whole life helping the poor and sick, then used examples and quotes out of context to support this. His inability to accept that help and dedication even when sometimes misguided adds up to infinitely more than the contribution of a literary critic who appears to be impressed by little more than his arrogant estimation of his own intelligence.” “This is a mean spirited book typical of a mean spirited writer” “This is a mean spirited book typical of a mean spirited writer who detested religion and charity. Hitchens was a man who always considered himself absolutely right on every subject despite having moved politically from the extreme left to the extreme right and physically by moving from Britain to the United States. He abandoned England in a similar manner to the Cambridge spies, that is gravitating to a perceived larger more influential country or ideology and despising the land of their birth. The book is sloppily researched and full of self conceit on the part of the writer. Opinions are treated as fact and lies taken on face value We have all come across people like Hitchens in our lives. They are the sort who stand outside the tough truths of life sneering at those who attempt to help alleviate suffering or troubles and who avoid getting involved apart from copiously criticising workers trying to get the job done.The small bully egging on the large bully from a safe distance. Whether Mother Theresa of Calcutta is a saint is beyond my judgement. She was a fallible human being who dd her best under extreme circumstances and deserves credit for this not a verbal onslaught from a man who never raised a finger to help others and deserves to be swiftly forgotten”. “Devoid of substance”
“Teresa (refusing pain meds to someone in the stages of terminal cancer)” What can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence! Evidence and citations please this is just half truths and extraordinary speculation. Half truths and speculation are not evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence! All these accounts have been taken on face value. I’ll stick with Lady Diana’s account of Mother Teresa thanks all the same. There’s nothing Earth shattering about the fact that a Catholic nun would try to take a stoic approach to discomfort and material belongings. This is a non sequitur and it is beyond doubt that Christopher Hitchens is not a reliable and neutral witness or researcher regarding this subject matter as he earned a six figure sum demonising religious expression in order to sell certainty to atheists. She was 87 in 1997 and most of the older generation who went through WW2 took a stoic approach to suffering including the non religious as a coping mechanism and encouraged others to do the same. Men and boys in particular were encouraged to endure struggles and suffering. Should we label our grandparents as evil for doing something that was part of the cultural norm. Nevertheless , theres no evidence Mother Teresa did this to a harmful degree its pure speculation, myth and attrition bias. Similarly there’s no evidence that she refused to give opioids to patients with severe pain or that she refused to use algorithms for pain management as they didn’t even exist until the World Health Organisation developed the algorithms for pain management (The analgesic ladder) in 1986. Drugs for sever pain such as opioids were highly restricted in India at the time so the drugs that were used in most hospitals during the period of time Hitchens is referring to we would now only use for mild to moderate pain control. It’s common knowledge among health care professionals that even doctors and nurses in hospitals in India at the time had very poor pain management skills poor access to strong opioids and ineffective “algorithms” as effective algorithms did not exist for goodness sake. So why single out an hospice run by nuns when it was like this all over India due to the poor knowledge of people who were considered at the forefront of medicine and nursing at the time. The fact is that the world was still waiting for the science and evidence based practice to evolve with regards to the safe and effective administration of opioids. Morphine was dangerous and caused respiratory depression until pain control experts eventually developed an appropriate algorithm in 1986 that nurses and doctors could implement on the wards. It’s only in the last 20 years that devices like (PCAs/ patient controlled analgesia) has evolved to the level where ward staff are comfortable managing the side effects for a patient who is self administering morphine through a pump syringe driver directly into the patient’s vein to free up ward nurses for other urgent duties. Hitchens didn’t have a clue and has clearly been debunked by healthcare professionals.
“Teresa (refusing pain meds to someone in the stages of terminal cancer)” If Christopher Hitchens had researched properly and not lied people wouldn’t be completely mislead Dr Fox who Hitchens uses as his main source of reference for criticising mother Teresa’s hospice, Dr Fox himself notes that weak analgesics (like acetaminophen) were used to alleviate pain; what was lacking were strong analgesics like morphine. Hitchens conveniently neglected to mention this fact. The wording is important, Fox only noted 'a lack of painkillers' without indicating it's cause, not that Teresa was actively withholding them on principle. What Hitchens wouldn't talk about is the responses Dr. Fox got from other palliative care professionals. Three prominent palliative care professionals, Dr. David Jeffrey, Dr. Joseph O'Neill and Ms. Gilly Burn, founder of Cancer Relief India, responded to Fox on the Lancet.They note three main difficulties with respect to pain control in India: "1) lack of education of doctors and nurses, 2) few drugs, and 3) very strict state government legislation, which prohibits the use of strong analgesics even to patients dying of cancer", with about "half a million cases of unrelieved cancer pain in India” How convenient of Hitchens to ignore the problems that were wide spread across India that were identified by three top experts in a top medical journal such as the Lancet. Hitchens attempts to destroy Mother Teresa and his cult following who accepted every thing he claimed as gospel truth can only be described as fanatical. Before (WHO) The World Health Organisation developed an algorithm in 1986 (Analgesic ladder) for the effective and safer usage of analgesics even people in first world hospitals were in hospital much longer on bed rest due to poor recovery times caused by bad mobility which was caused by poor pain management resulting in many more people dying of DVT complications and infection. These nuns provided an hospice, food shelter, comfort warmth for a while in a time and place that was extremely challenging for even highly trained medical and nursing staff in India and even in first world hospitals at the time (Lancet, Dr. David Jeffrey, Dr. Joseph O'Neill and Ms. Gilly Burn, founder of Cancer Relief India) Mother Teresa’s hospices were not an highly equipped hospice with regards to effective and safe pain control because even the best equipped hospitals in the first world struggled until the World Health Organisation developed algorithms in 1986 for safe and effective pain management. MTs hospice wasn’t even an hospital! Nevertheless, since the dangers regarding morphine weren’t as well known and strict prior to the WHO guidance on safe and effective usage of opioids , the Charity was able to use stronger painkillers like morphine and codeine injections at least occasionally under prescription at their homes, as witnesses have described. Iv references and sources for this if required. Historically and traditionally, hospices were run by religious institutions and were places of hospitality for the sick, wounded, or dying and for travelers. The fact is that the first oral morphine tablets (the essential drug of palliative medicine) only arrived in India in 1988 under heavy regulations To single out Mother Teresa's hospice is unfair and disingenuous when it was an issue not just for hospices, but hospitals in India and in first world hospitals too Just a peripheral research of the claims regarding Mother Teresa’s use of analgesics demonstrates Hitchens half truths to be completely absurd. One of the Dr fox references Hitchens uses he conveniently doesn’t mention the fact that Dr Fox himself said the hospice was clean and people were well cared for. Also Dr Fox never actually stated Mother Teresa refused to give painkillers but only stated “there was a lack of painkillers”. The list of inaccuracies and half truths in Hitchens dishonest attack on mother Teresa goes on. There’s a lot of evidence out there if you can be bothered to fact check but apparently if you want to find evidence to demonise a frail old women and the thousands of volunteers who helped her tend to the poor, sick, homeless and dying you will find it.❤️
This is so sad because the charity will have lost and is continuing to lose needed financial aid and volunteers due to this smear campaign. Please share the truth. It’s not about winning an argument it’s about helping the poor, sick and dying ❤️
@@georgedoyle7971 No Hitch, No Penn and Teller here. Just a good ole "crikey" report on Teresa's work "for Christ". ua-cam.com/video/wl9arzVuZbA/v-deo.html Also, for an enlightening contrast on helping the sick and the dying of Calcutta (Kolkata), it is worthwhile learning about the great work of Dr. Jack Preger. He did not work for Jesus, instead, he devoted his time, energy and knowledge to helping the People.
Years back in India I met a young Irish nurse who had volunteered for Theresa's centre in Kolkata. She left in dismay after a child was denied potentially life-saving treatment. She was also appalled by the squalor, lack of hygiene and lack of basic pain management. She met Theresa and found her rigid and uncompassionate. She felt the place was a reprehensible death cult. And Theresa wasn't revered in India as the Catholic guy claimed. With the people I knew she was seen as a condescending imperialist. The claims of my Irish friend are corroborated by many similar accounts by other volunteer nurses and doctors, and by a peer reviewed paper in the Lancet journal.
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 What do you think - I made it up?? Not only did she leave - it made her question her Catholic faith that the Church was supporting this woman. She was very shaken up by it all.
Anecdotal evidence! Stop jumping on the band wagon. How hypocritical! Its OK to accuse Mother Teresa of being guilty by association but Hitchens gets a get out of Jail free card for publicly supporting the Iraq war, a war that lead to the deaths of thousands of innocent men women and children and turned out to be unjustified. If mother Teresa is guilty by association then Hitchens is also guilty by association as his friend Sam Harris supports torture, Dawkins promotes the idea eugenics would work on humans and Daniel Dennette promotes the idea that accountability and free will including consciousness is an illusion so the Nazis were not accountable for their actions. When your defending Hitchens please remember to defend all these horrific ideologies. There is no real difference between Hitchens’s outrage to “reason” and a right wing homophobic evangelical’s outrage to God. Equally, the cringe fest in the comments section of any Hitchens debate from his cult following and the outright hatred of religious expression and ironic worship of Hitchens makes the most happy clappy right wing homophobic evangelical look like an acolyte of human rights in comparison. Hitchens made a six figure sum demonising moderate religious expression in order to sell certainty to atheists. But Hitchens knew the papal encyclicals of the last fifty years have consistently criticized the way in which capitalism preys upon the poor (more consistently than the lapsed Marxist Hitchens himself). Not to recognize the work of liberation theology the priests and bishops who were assassinated defending the poor. For Hitchens to purposely disregard this is a shortcoming very worthy of criticism, however much New atheists such as the “four horsemen” wish to deny it. Hitchens intellectually dishonest approach would inevitably backfire as evidenced in his support of the Iraq war. A war that lead to the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women and children and turned out to be completely unjustified and lead to rise of terrorism and more innocent lives destroyed. Similarly, Hitchens comrade Sam Harris’s approach to people’s “well being” lead to him promoting state sponsored torture. In the same vein Dawkins completely undermined his own credibility by promoting the idea that eugenics would work on humans and Daniel Dennette the only real philosopher among the ironic “four horsemen” most worryingly promoted the idea that moderate religious believers were more dangerous than extremists. I think the bereaved families of the holocaust victims would beg to differ with Dawkins that eugenics works on humans and with Daniel Dennette that moderate religious believers are more dangerous than extremists. In contrast the brilliant cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky responded to this worrying trend and its unquestioning cult following with “I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.” (Noam Chomsky) In discussing the exodus, Hitchens basically rewrites history and insists that “There was no flight from Egypt, no wandering in the desert . . . , and no dramatic conquest of the Promised Land. It was all, quite simply and very ineptly, made up at a much later date.”(Christopher Hitchens). According to Hitchens historical revisionism “No Egyptian chronicle mentions this episode either, even in passing. . . . All the Mosaic myths can be safely and easily discarded.” Hitchens rhetoric clearly demonstrates a superficial survey of the evidence. Might we suggest that Hitchens begin with Hoffmeier’s Israel in Egypt and Ancient Israel in Sinai? It should be noted that Hoffmeier’s books were not published by some small evangelical theological press but by Oxford University hardly a bastion of regressive fundamentalist apologetics. Hitchens’s claim that “no Egyptian chronicle mentions this episode (of Moses and the Israelites) either, even in passing” is simply untrue. Let’s not forget “what can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence”. Ironically in Hitchens case if the evidence conflicts with your own personal agenda and anti religious ideology just fabricate the evidence. According to Noam Chomsky... “religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in helping those in need. In contrast, the US carried out a virtual war against the church in central America in the 1980’s primarily because prime elements in the church were working with great courage and honor to help those in need. And to organize them to help themselves. It is more than symbolic that the decade opened with the assassination of an archbishop and ended with the murder of 6 Jesuit intellectuals, in both cases by military forces armed and trained by the US government.” (Noam Chomsky). Where was Hitchens conscience during the Iraq war or when he knowingly falsified the history of religious and philosophical ideas. ? As Nietzsche wrote in "Beyond Good and Evil," “No one is such a liar as an indignant man.” No offence intended all the best to you and your family and keep safe during this Corona virus crisis ❤️
The remarkable thing about Hell’s Angel is that it purports to defend the poor against Mother Teresa’s supposed exploitation of them, while never actually interviewing any on screen. Not a single person cared for by the Missionaries speaks on camera. Was this because they had a far higher opinion of Blessed Teresa than Hitchens would permit in his film? Avoiding the people at the heart of Teresa’s ministry, Hitchens posed for the camera and let roll a series of ad hominem attacks and unsubstantiated accusations, as uninformed as they were cruel. He called Muggeridge-one of the most acclaimed journalists of the twentieth century-an “old fraud and mountebank,” mocked his belief in the supernatural, and even referred to Mother Teresa as a “presumable virgin.” She was denounced for meeting with unsavory politicians and businessmen, in order to assist the poor, but ironically, it is Hitchens who used the film to promote Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a notorious ex-priest whose record as Haiti’s President was symbolized by corruption and abuse. Of Teresa’s travels abroad, Hitchens declared: “She may or may not comfort the afflicted, but she has certainly never been known to afflict the comfortable”-but the documentary shows her doing exactly that, decrying abortion in front of affluent pro-choice audiences.
Indians do not like the publicity she got for her voluntary work. This was because while they have a space programme and are the Worlds 7th biggest military spenders they did not want the World to know they do not give a dam about their poor ....... He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora ......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted. At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂️Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs. The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done. Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. “Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana. Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.” The demand for medical marijuana Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits. “It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.” Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids. Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news
I saw Penn (he’s the big guy, right) on a Joy Behar show (I think), and he was debating the existence of god with a Rabbi. The Rabbi said something about Penn not believing in god, and Penn replied, “I not only don’t believe in god, I can’t believe YOU believe!” I’ve never forgotten that! ❤. I’m going to have to UA-cam or Google that interview with Joy. It was awesome!
Heck yeah, amazingly revealing. And they are switched totally onto Hitchens which is obviously a sign of great science respecting minds. I don’t know why I knew so little about Ms Theresa either. Great doco, glad it’s here. Reminds me I’m not as crazy as I suspected haha 😅
Have you seen the series?..its brilliant..opened my eyes to really vile and sick people who are revered in religious circles...ghandi was pretty horrible too ..check it out..
@@gmaellen5530when you find it, let us know please? Sounds like a great thing to see. I’ve often wondered the same thing, when I see supposedly intelligent people say they believe such things. Can you imagine a US president admitting that they DON’T believe in a God??? Political suicide
Not a MT fan, but Hitch's demeanor and sources aren't exactly reliable. He reads to me as somebody who's up his own end because he thinks he knows the right answer to everything where everybody else doesn't. He didn't reveal anything other than rumor for a woman he already had great disdain for.
If any one of us found ourselves in the position of caring for a terminally ill relative but what we actually did was to deny them any form of medical treatment and just tell them they needed to suffer for Jesus we would (quite rightly) be locked up for neglect yet this woman did exactly that for decades and on an industrial scale.
when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
A lot of them also died of cholera because of how they never sanitized anything. Tons of them died of cholera and all you have to do to survive cholera is drink water.
@@johns1625 yep because suffering brought them closer to God. That sick fucking demented bitch.. she’s way closer to Satan’s wife then she is being a saint
My grandparents owned a restaurant in India, I remember my grandmother telling me what an evil woman she was. She had lots of donations from them and businesses in the area yet the so called hospital was a shit pit.
Think about it. 1/ It was still a lot better than the alternative otherwise people would have brought their relatives there. 2/ Hindus should be ashamed at how they do not care for their poor with more Billionaires in India than the UK they could afford to look after their own poor. So they deflect saying they are not in poverty or the foreigners are not helping.
@@1234poppycat it may be better than zero but she subverted the vast sums she collected to the church while no pain relief for them (heroin is cheap!!) Another theft. I should send you pictures of the convents in our town. They have rooms for drawing, for pottery making, for painting, they have a room for greeting card signing! Their own hospital within. Therapy pools, their own million dollar chapel, living areas with multiple fireplaces, grand pianos, commercial dining facilities, state of the art everything. 2 employees per nun. They pray for the poor...but you'd have to be a 100 millionaire to afford that nursing home.
@@mp5249 Well give me the link of pictures of the nuns living in great wealth as you claim ... I know you will not be able to do this because such claims are not true. I await your excuse
@@1234poppycat lol then come to Iowa. One convent is under reconstruction at the cost of 1/2 million per nun. There simply are no new nuns. The other convent has two under age 60, both are from Vietnam and are here to go to college.
KatherineMacChesney Question: If my ex-wife had cheated on me, taken $10 000 of my money and left without even so much of a good-bye, is it still my fault then? I will never understand this growing trend in society that assumes a woman can do no wrong simply because she doesn't have a penis.
KatherineMacChesney LOL, what of when family court asks him to pay, cleaning his account all the same? Heads i win, tails you lose, is that how you play? I bet your bf/ hubby dumped you for someone sweeter, nicer, one who thinks feminists are absolute shit.
I’m sure this isn’t that controversial in the corridors of the church. They cannot admit it in public. She’s the saint of hypocrite rich conservative catholics.
@Rei Ren indeed. She was a propaganda coup for the rich conservative 'catholics' who want their sheep poor and pliable. There was no way her sainthood could have been sidestepped. She represents a retrograde view of Catholicism.
Hitchens was a brilliant and a true hero to humanity. We will look back at his legacy in the future and many more will realize how important and valuable his contributions were. Love you Christopher Hitchens☮️
I wish this video had more views after being on since 2011. I also wish Hitch was still with us. Thanks Penn & Teller for narrating the truth with such real passion.
when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
+Steve Rohan forever self indulgent forever a self publicist the cynical negative over consuming lifestyle did for him in the end.. You have to pity Hitchens..
Steve It does not take much for Hitchens to impress you. As a fully paid up member of his sycophant circle you obviously like the man others see his opinions as just that even though his sycophants see them as facts they must unquestionably accept.
@@RocketKirchner He was in position to criticize all the dishonest people of the world. The fact that he had a wrong opinion, more than one I would say, changes nothing to that.
Man, Hitchens was a beacon of truth and reason, and a fountain of knowledge. We need more Hitchenses in the world. R.I.P. Edit: Penn and Teller are fucking great, too.
@@Jo-id9zm Of course you have never looked at it that way because you are the same kind of person. Sadly your pride and arrogance will lead you to the same consequences. Being a smart ass looks good until reality bites
@@Phill0old quite literally everything hitchens said, can be fact checked. He was against liars, hence his love of destroying religious idiots. I'm guessing you're a theist who saw some truth in what he was saying, so reverted to your default setting of condemning anything that sheds light on the fact religion is utter nonsense, and detrimental to humanity
@@poozer1986 The interesting thing about facts is that they are in need of interpretation. They don't tell us anything in and of themselves. So you can interpret them one way and I another way and others yet more ways. The question is what agenda the interpreter has. Hitchens had an agenda. He was also prone to being smart and evasive when it suited him. He is not alone in that but you pretending he was some sort of secular saint is amusing.
Hitch's death deprives the world of his wit and insight, especially on matters (religion, Mother Teresa) that others treat with undeserved reverence. "Mumble"? Hitch was as erudite as they come, his command of English and his delivery was, indeed, amazing. "Pseudo-intellectual"? Hitchens was a brilliant, best-selling public intellectual and polemicist who earned the respect of those in and out of his aggressively atheistic camp. In addition, there was nothing fake about him: The reason you can smugly remark on his "sips of scotch" is because he didn't care enough to try to hide his "vices" from public scrutiny. "Garbage"? Certainly not Hitchens and the inspiration he gave to other freethinkers. However, that epithet fits with your lame sarcasm, for example, "like....uhh...umm...oh yeah" = you are pushing your index finger in your chin while looking skyward, feigning a brilliant insight into the obvious that Hitch did "jack squat", except it is not obvious but a mere difference of opinion about Hitch's legacy. Your attempt at sarcasm is not only clumsy and obvious, it is misplaced and not clever in the least. Don't be butthurt. You tried.
nunya baznus The people that call him pseudo-intellectual demonstrate they have no idea who he was. Either that or they dont know what the word even means and are just repeating what they saw in a You Tube comment.
nunya baznus It sounds to me like you are the biased one. He made enemies easily and no doubt offended you too in some way. I don't agree with all his views either, but I can look at the man as a whole and see his successes. He was certainly regarded as an intellectual peer by a great many people more important then you, that's for sure.
Atheists will go to any lengths to try to ruin the reputation of Mother Teresa They will have plenty of gullible atheists believing them. Hitchens was good with the one liners but usually had nothing to back it up, only his sycophants would think it smart because they were just having their prejudices confirmed with his opinion. THINK He is offering his opinion and that is not backed up with facts!!
@@1234poppycat really you are a moron if thats what you believe I have visited her so called hospital in calcatta its a torture chamber a squalid house of death where did the millions go that she raised straight into the coffers of the catholic church blinded by faith is true in your case ignorance breeds religion. religion breeds ignorance
@@1234poppycat I'll try to be as polite as I can. No Atheist, or believer for that matter, should even have to try to ruin Mother Theresa's "reputation". She did that for herself, in life. Her so called "Reputation" is one of complete lies, fabrication and fantasy. Agnes, was a horrible and cruel woman, who caused more suffering than she ameliorated, and was a TOTAL fraud and a THIEF!! PERIOD !! Those are the FACTS, they're readily available to everyone in the world to see and learn. The Catholic Church is an ABOMINATION. There's practically NO SUCH THING as a real, practicing Catholic, anywhere in the world today, and the only reason this superstitious stupidity still exists today, is because of gullible, fearful, ignorant people like you. Please do not confuse ignorance with stupidity. There is a big difference, and if YOU are ACTUALLY still under the impression, and the belief system, that Mother (Agnes) Theresa was a "good" person, then I hate to have to tell you, that you are ABYSMALLY IGNORANT !! All the truth and the facts about her, and that TORTURE CHAMBER called the Home for the Dying, are readily available for anyone to see. I really hope that you will do some serious research into this, and PLEASE, don't be afraid to look up the REAL, DOCUMENTED, UNDENIABLE FACTS AND CRIMES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH throughout history. I sincerely wish you luck on your road to, at least "some" enlightenment.
@@paulstewart7529 Your absolutely correct. Agnes was a horrible person, a total fraud and a thief!! It's enraging to think, that in this day and age, there is still such pathetic, superstition and stupidity!! If there was ever a MONUMENT, built to PROVE that the Catholic Church is nothing but filthy, evil, money hungry, FRAUD, it was this: "House for the Dying"!! The Catholic Church has stolen BILLIONS of dollars, and that DUMP didn't even have BEDS??? I can only imagine the kind of SLOP those poor children were forced to eat, while they "Suffered for Christ"!! If the Catholic Clergy had any decency or sincerity, THEY would live under those conditions, while the sick children were housed in the comforts and LUXURY of the Vatican. The Catholic Church DOES do a little good here and there. I've seen some proof of this, but for them to have allowed THOSE KIND OF CONDITIONS, at the Home for the Dying, while the conditions at the Vatican are ABOVE AND BEYOND that of ROYALTY, is REVOLTING !!
@@MikeS-um1nm I am so sorry for you. You don't know Catholicism and you have swallowed the opinion of Hitchens and others over the facts with regard to Mother Teresa. As for intelligence I am not going to list my post grad qualifications. Just because you put something in block capitals does not make it true ( UNDENIABLE FACTS AND CRIMES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ) Think for yourself.
@@kingsman428apparently you can't read and i bet it took you all day to learn demonstrably and twice as long to learn how to spell kingsman - very creative and unique. how many times did you have to watch it before you could figure out how to spell it. i asked you to leave me alone and i meant it. you're picking a fight with me here because you would never do it in person, so keep it up and i'm gonna do something about it. it's you who have shown what you really are, not me. and as far as my point of view, i'll defend it to my last breath because it's true. go bother someone else because well you can get away with it on here. we all get it dude. you don't believe in anything. you will soon. i'll pray for you. now leave me alone.
+Darryn Grabbe And the magic trick is that you made the millions turn into a billion ...... but then again don't worry yourself with facts ... few bother on this site !!
+AJA Deacon semantics, the official numbers do not mean much as the church has no accountability and often launders its money using charities as fronts to funnel back to the boss' in the funny hats
+Darryn Grabbe I posted ""And the magic trick is that you made the millions turn into a billion ...... but then again don't worry yourself with facts ... few bother on this site !! +Darryn Grabbe And the magic trick is that you made the millions turn into a billion ...... but then again don't worry yourself with facts ... few bother on this site !! Read more Show less "" Thanks for responding with more made up nonsense
+Darryn Grabbe And the magic trick is that you made the millions turn into a billion ...... but then again don't worry yourself with facts ... few bother on this site !! yours is the made up nonsense ..... so no doubt you can explain your "" irony "" !!
No we need more people like Mother Teresa who actually help and care for the poor and oppressed. Hitchens did a good job focusing on his privileged lifestyle .... In his performances and writing when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
So I have explained and all you can do is come up with insults ............ Qe need more people like Mother Teresa who actually help and care for the poor and oppressed. Hitchens did a good job focusing on his privileged lifestyle .... In his performances and writing when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
@@LifeOfRy It was people like Hitchens who buried their head up their ass that are the issue. Mother Teresa helped more people than Hitchens. The complaint they could have done more than the great amount they did rings hollow AND helps no one. It also ignores that the primary goal was saving souls and conversion.
I went to one of these Home of the Dying as a kid in India, one of the most grueling experiences ever. People strewn on the floor in pain and agony. I was 6 years old and I still hear that day like no other.
you should be more ashamed that your government did less for the poor than Mother Teresa otherwise they would have gone to Indian government care!! She had 500 centres around the World say 100 in each centre 50 000 at $2 a day that is $100 000 = $1 million every 10 days
@@krishnaveti hmm, why don’t you bury your head up your arsenal and pretend that you are better .. For all her faults, she did what she believed in.. she was an uneducated woman who wanted to help the poor in India… but you would rather, that the poor just begged for food and died on the streets… disgusting and shameful
@@franceleeparis37 she was murders, evil witch who got of, of seeing people die in agony. She created more suffering so that she could enjoy the death and the hopelessness of those she pretended to care about!
when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
As Hitch put it ' she was as about as far from the caring and loving attributes of a 'mother' as its possible to be ' Thankyou Penn and Teller for a superb job.
As long as you dont think you have been given any evidence , empirical data or reasoned logic and fact .... He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora ......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted. At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂️Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs. The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done. Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. “Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana. Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.” The demand for medical marijuana Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits. “It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.” Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids. Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news
Thanks for this. Just yesterday my roommate and I were listening to an NPR radio story about Mother T. We both started calling out Bullshit on her being portrayed as a Saint and laughed and laughed. Then today while going to UA-cam for something different, this popped up and reminded me of why we were laughing with just a bit of irony. Thanks for posting this and thanks to Penn and Teller and Chris as well!
Christopher please , he promised his Mother he would never let anyone call him Chris, he pulled up anyone who did . I heard one interviewer do it once n get away with it, he spoke very fast . His Mother took her own life . Miss the Hitch 🥃✌🏼
when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
*GASP!!!!!!* It's *SEXIST!!!* to use the term "bullsh*t" when she cows go poop, too. And, it's also *SPECIESIST!!!* because non-bovine animals also expel digestion remnants through their anal orifice. In the future, instead of saying "bullsh*t", everyone should please say "Non-gender-specific non-species-specific animal excrement". And instead of using "BS", please use "NSNSAE". Thank you for your cooperation.
iska788 We don't know what caused his cancer. It's not that well known for what all can cause it. We know that his father also had it, though. Smoking and booze may be a factor, but we can't say that it was caused from it. As bad as they may be, they should not be the direct target for blame unless otherwise shown.
@@marcokite The Christians' message is one of b.s. But keep up that dream of yours about Seeing Granny Again after your stroll through the Pearly Gates...
@@marcokite Funny, I see your trite little 2 Samuel 24, scriptural story, in pretty much that exact same light. Bitterness, pettiness - and dishonesty. Thus, far.
I met Penn and Teller. Awesome dudes, better magicians. Teller’s voice is so formal. Penn loves his kids like crazy. His daughter ran to him after the show and he stopped everything to hug her.
@UC79mAinFiSWwWCH81ZR3bbg thank you. He felt the need to tell the story like it makes HIM an authority cuz he saw a guy hug his daughter. Well so do I, and I'm a piece of shit. So big deal.
No it turned out that lazy selfish people who were anti Catholic lied against her... now from someone who knows ""Denver Britto 1 week ago What a load of horseshit, i'm from India and she did more for the poor there and around the world than any of you here. Hitchens didn't do a drop if his own research for his book abd just relied on secondary reports from a few people with axes to grind. """
@@1234poppycat All her detractors were godless bastards who earned obscene amounts of money, which funded their selfish, decadent lifestyles, by writing libellous poison about a pious lady who slept on hard floors, had no possessions, and devoted her life to relieving the suffering of the sick and afflicted.
@@1234poppycat how about the indian doctor that wrote a first hand account of what Mother Theresa did? Is he not qualified to speak on it? How about the video evidence of the terrible conditions in the “hospitals”? I can’t see how you can excuse that.
I think there should be a campaign for the cannonisation of Christopher Hitchens. I'd like some of the religious trinkets in my house. A statue, a painting and some candles.
I suspect that the very idea of making Hitchens a saint would result in him coming back from the dead and stuffing the proposal where the sun dont shine. Having said that it would of course be the ultimate irony if the world were to find itself with a Saint Hitch.
4:51 What’s most amazing is a friend of mine who is a physician and Catholic priest and worked for her said that many of the people who were in her “hospice” could have been cured with drugs that cost pennies / antibiotics, anti parasitic meds. She felt that no, their suffering made them closer to God. It truly was a cult of suffering / I think in the real world we call that masochism.
Old school Catholicism was based mostly on suffering, but suffering of an existential or personal nature, not enabling the pain and suffering of Others.
Me too. Thank the gods of the Internet for UA-cam for preserving the genius of the Hitch for future generations. He was a genius and would've been a fascinating guy to get sloshed and chain smoke with.
Poor women spent her life helping the unseen only to be rediculed by people who just hate her based on speculations and haters and mainly because her God was Jesus Christ.
@@craigdavidson2278 She was living off of donations/alms for which she was even spit upon literally. She was begging for abandoned babies she picked from garbage dumps man.. Can you imagine? She fostered orphans picked from such conditions. Christopher hitchens is an ignorant. How many people have he helped convinced that there is no all loving being? Only humans for humans.
The more you discover about her the creepier she looks. Reminds me of the stereotypical authoritarian catholic school teacher nun who gets off on corporal punishment and psychologically manipulating children. And so many people out there who think because she's nun and worked in "charity" that makes her an altruistic sweet little old lady. Looking at all those dying people forced to sit in one spot all day with no visits from loved ones and not given even any expression of kindness just so they could die feeling suffering like Jesus dying on the cross makes me sick. Nobody deserves that kind of cruelty.
Haaaaa, Christopher Hitchens is to the catholic church and Mother Teresa what Michael Moore is to a ham sandwich. Relentless...unstoppable, without fear. That made me lose my shit.
Hitchens was a lazy gossip and slander journalist who tried to attract people to his articles by being controversial .. He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora ......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted. At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂️Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs. The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done. Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. “Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana. Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.” The demand for medical marijuana Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits. “It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.” Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids. Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news
Dear Penn and Teller, I know someone who'd been to India and met mother Teresa. He said the poverty was so severe if you gave a child a penny it was a death sentence. But the "hospice" that he saw was not the showplace that you saw. People were not laid out in the building but on the street. The lucky ones had some type of material between them and the filthy pavement. One man was writhing in pain and terror. She bent down and whispered in his ear, but it did not comfort him. My friend asked what did you tell him? This is a direct quote, "I told him, 'You suffer for Christ.'" 'Nuff said. You guys are beacons of enjoyment and reason in a dark and dangerous time. Good on you. Peace,
@@Jasontvnd9 what's your evidence? Hitchen's book, which he didnt actually do any of his own research for but just relied on a couple of sources with their own axes to grind?
@@denverbritto5606 How about her own quote "There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ's Passion. The world gains much from their suffering," That would seem to coincide with the same like of thinking that the OP's comment made. There's also the 2013 Ottowa University study did that looked at Evidence Teresa did not prescribe pain medication. There's even an overwhelming amount of reports that her ulterior motive was to try to convert non Christians into Christians. Doctors who visited one of her 517 missions found unhygienic conditions with lack of food and complete refusal to provide any real painkillers. Lower estimates on the donations to her cause are somewhere around $150m a year. Most suspect closer to $200m a year , Certainly should be enough to fund the missionaries she had to a much higher standard than she was. Bear in mind that she did not rent the missionaries they where paid for by the Church and the workers where all volunteers. She is an evil women.
@@Jasontvnd9 Robin Fox based his critique of conditions in her hospices by comparing to large well-funded hospitals in the UK, clearly he had no idea about funding or regulations or health conditions in India, for which he was later criticised himself. The 2013 Ottawa study doesn't do any research either, the main source it cites is Hitchens himself. As for her comment, you can criticise her philosophy of acceptance of suffering while still acknowledging that her actions alleviated many peoples' suffering, at least a lot more than many others were doing in Calcutta 50 years ago. As for conversions, as long as they aren't coerced, what do you care why someone's motivated to help others. Maybe Hitchens had better motivations than her in your opinion, but how much did he help the suffering in Calcutta.
@@mp5249 The nuns in my parish live in an ordinary apartment and work with parishioners and the poor for little more than pocket money (they all share one 10+ year old car)
@@1234poppycat nuns in my town (4 convents) are having their estate (most expensive land in town) rebuilt at the cost of $800,000 per nun. Average home here sells for under 200K. 2 indoor pools. It's a freaking palace.
Okay, since nowadays we're "identifying" as whoever we want to be(the Worlds Greatest Male Athlete as 'a Kaitlyn' Genderbender female, and, whiteyRachel Dolezal, pretended to be black to receive welfare fraud), I now "IDENTIFY" as GOF; the millionaire missionary. 😎👍
Can't believe I (and many, many others) were brainwashed to be forced to believe that this old bag was a saint. Good thing Hitchens pulled me out of the fog.
Jazzkeyboardist1 Seems you really need to examine if your education has had any use. If you cannot see the difference between the two, look at sentence one.
But mr atheist was far from brilliant . Anyone with insight knew that Nun was no saint. But Catholic do tend to let the Vatican think for them. Catholics seem to think it takes the responsibility off themselves, for the lies they accept. I once too was one- Catholic that is. Until I just couldn’t gage on the Blatant BS anymore. The Vatican teachings again Jesus Christ has to wake You up!! Or your soul is lost. Remember!! You Can think for yourself! Because your. Decisions will be the cursor where you will spend eternity. And when you say Jesus you can’t say but they lied to me I only believe with the pope said. That doesn’t cut it with The Master Jesus Christ.
Unfortunately it does not shock me that Atheists will go to any lengths to try to ruin the reputation of Mother Teresa & that they will have plenty of gullible atheists believing them. Hitchens was good with the one liners but usually had nothing to back it up, only his sycophants would think it smart because they were just having their prejudices confirmed with his opinion.
@@1234poppycat what do you mean? Everything said in the video was true, Why don't you agree? Because you assumed she was a better person? Fucking dummies and their opinions.
mother teresa should have been forced to receive the exact same care she was providing for all those poor people she left dying miserably in her facilities instead of enjoying the best medicine that all of her ill gotten money could buy.
I said that to a religious person one time. He said "she didn't have a say anymore, people responsible for her decided to take her to the best hospitals". I just said "she didn't spend any money on the suffering people to at least ease the suffering, and she could've requested ahead of time to not be taken away. You know practice what you preach."
that is just stupid Hitchens logic .. THINK Are you saying anyone who substantially helps the poor in a poor country should be banned from getting help/ hospital treatment in the West ??
@@1234poppycat Look up the word hypocrisy. Have someone read the definition to you. It will shed some light on your religion. You may not see the light with your head up your ass, but try anyway.
I remember how angry I got when I found out that Mother Teresa was not interested in curing and rehabilitating the seriously ill - rather she wanted to share in their suffering! She was a fraud and Hitch was right to criticize her.
I went to a papish school and they tried to teach me mother tersea that she all good and she could not have done anything wrong. It was only when I was older that I found out about her the truth
Hitchens rarely took the risk of using evidence to back up his opinion on Mother Teresa... I wish his sycophantic supporters delved into thinking for themselves ... When Mother Teresa was still alive a volunteer gave a presentation at my Church She described -- first hand having worked in Calcutta for over a year -- that the nuns were the most dedicated selfless and wonderful people she had ever come across. That they were totally devoted to the sick and dying worked over 70 hours a week with the poor ( in addition to prayers mass etc) The pictures you see are when the nuns stood back for five minutes so they did not appear on the filming and it looked like the sick were just left there. Volunteer (mostly ) Hindu (occasionally some Catholic doctors from the West) attend daily and administer what medicines they are allowed to by the State. As of 2013 across India it was estimated only 2% had proper palliative care when dying - because the State refuses to allow the medicines / puts huge administrative costs and hurdles in place. Even today outside wealthy homes with air conditioning most Indians sleep on a mattress on the floor - more preferable than on a bed cos it is a bit cooler Hitchens only convinces people who do not have detailed info. I have spent time explaining this because I have researched and taken an interest over decades and realise in your dedication to Hitchens you will just dismiss this out of hand.
Well start being angry as you find out you were lied to !!! Mother Teresa cared for the poorest of the poor and it was not ill people but terminally ill & it was the Indian government who held back pallative care painkilling drugs until 2017 ( Search Indian "Quora " Magazine) when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
Irony is that virtually every atheist is a better Christian, according to Jesus' words, than any of the people among the gang of thugs trying to force "Christianity" down people's throats.
Christopher Hitchens is absolutely correct. Sister Nirmala, Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, stated that before she died Mother Teresa told her, '' The poor should remain poor, without them we will lose our jobs.''
Do you actually have any proof or do you always believe rumours.....not being a catholic I wouldn't necessarily trust everything they say or do but I certainly would not hold Hitchens up as the arbiter of truth. Praying for you regardless Gilly wife of Mark
@@markmooney5662 and I will fart for you .. apparently farts in someone’s intention actually works compared to preying... and they are natural as well. And isn’t that funny that you asking for evidence for something ... but you don’t need any evidence for god to believe... lol
@@Dycdom So just because someone believes in the fundamental nature of mind and consciousness/theism that means they can’t expect evidence when someone is accused of a crime. ? Seems a bit irrational and fanatical. Equally Hitchens claims are very suspect because nurses, never mind nuns, can’t even prescribe opioids only a doctor can it’s a controlled class A drug which is why opioids are locked up in a safe on the wards and counted with two qualified nurses at the end of a shift to ensure they the haven’t been stolen. If there is any morphine missing we are legally accountable and have to contact the police. Please also explain how even if Mother Teresa could prescribe drugs for severe pain she would be able to do so when No 1. The first oral morphine tablets (the essential drug of palliative medicine) only arrived in India in 1988 under heavy regulations. No 2. Many of the nuns were not properly trained nurses and non of the nurses in the main hospitals in India and in the first world were adequately trained to give strong pain killers as the (WHO) The World Health Organisation didn’t develop an effective algorithm (analgesic ladder) for managing dangerous drugs such as opioids safely until 1986. No 3. When opioids were strictly controlled in all the hospitals in India and opioids were rarely used as it was an endemic problem. In response to Dr Fox Hitchens main source of criticism of Mother Teresa three prominent palliative care professionals, Dr. David Jeffrey, Dr. Joseph O'Neill and Ms. Gilly Burn, founder of Cancer Relief India, responded to Fox on the Lancet.They note three main difficulties with respect to pain control in India: "1) lack of education of doctors and nurses, 2) few drugs, and 3) very strict state government legislation, which prohibits the use of strong analgesics even to patients dying of cancer", with about "half a million cases of unrelieved cancer pain in India” How convenient of Hitchens to ignore the problems that were wide spread across India that were identified by three top experts in a top medical journal such as the Lancet. To single out Mother Teresa's hospice is unfair and disingenuous when it was an issue not just for hospices, but hospitals in India and in first world hospitals too. I can supply references for this if needed. No 4. Dr Fox who Hitchens uses as his main source of reference for criticising mother Teresa’s hospice, Dr Fox himself notes that weak analgesics (like acetaminophen) were used to alleviate pain; what was lacking were strong analgesics like morphine. I wonder why Hitchens didn’t mention this ? No 5. Nevertheless, since the dangers regarding morphine weren’t as well known and strict prior to the WHO guidance in 1986 on safe and effective usage of opioids , the Charity was able to use stronger painkillers like morphine and codeine injections at least occasionally under prescription at their homes, as witnesses have described. 6. Administration of strong pain killers such as morphine is very dangerous and takes a lot of nursing skill to get the right titration depending on age, body size and underlying pathology and health conditions. It takes a great deal of experience and expertise to administer and monitor without killing the patient. You have to go on a course even after your nurse training to be able to administer Iv morphine/opioids etc This would be a logistical nightmare with limited healthcare professionals and volunteers in a hospice with hundreds of people in severe pain. Are you suggesting that nuns should have acquired and prescribed an highly regulated class A drug themselves with out the appropriate skills required to administer and monitor the side effects without killing the patient or making their pain even worse by causing severe nausea or respiratory depression. Please provide references for your sources! I’ll wait!! No 7. One of the Dr fox references Hitchens uses he conveniently doesn’t mention the fact that Dr Fox himself said the hospice was clean and people were well cared for. Also Dr Fox never actually stated Mother Teresa refused to give painkillers. So where is the evidence because there’s good evidence why the pain killers weren’t opioids which is the most effective treatment for severe but it was restricted in India and can kill the patient if you’re not an health card professional who’s been appropriately trained to give opioids and manage the side effects such as respiratory depression ? No 8. The remarkable thing about Hell’s Angel is that it purports to defend the poor against Mother Teresa’s supposed exploitation of them, while never actually interviewing any on screen. Not a single person cared for by the Missionaries speaks on camera. Was this because they had a far higher opinion of Blessed Teresa than Hitchens would permit in his film? Avoiding the people at the heart of Teresa’s ministry, Hitchens posed for the camera and let roll a series of ad hominem attacks and unsubstantiated accusations, as uninformed as they were cruel. He called Muggeridge one of the most acclaimed journalists of the twentieth century an “old fraud and mountebank,” mocked his belief in the supernatural, and even referred to Mother Teresa as a “presumable virgin.” She was denounced for meeting with unsavory politicians and businessmen, in order to assist the poor, but ironically, it is Hitchens who used the film to promote Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a notorious ex-priest whose record as Haiti’s President was symbolized by corruption and abuse. Of Teresa’s travels abroad, Hitchens declared: “She may or may not comfort the afflicted, but she has certainly never been known to afflict the comfortable”-but the documentary shows her doing exactly that, decrying abortion in front of affluent pro-choice audiences.
@@Dycdom It’s so ironic to see militant atheists resorting to insults, witch hunts and ad hominem attacks because you’ve no evidence. The irony is that even a lot atheists agree with us. References and citations please this is a myth and even Hitchens admitted it was just sensationalism. There’s nothing Earth shattering about finding out that a nun who lived through WW2 doesn’t agree with abortion, contraception and takes a stoic approach to discomfort and material wealth. Even non religious people took a stoic and pragmatic approach to suffering during WW2 it was a cultural norm and a coping mechanism that lingered afterwards. Should we label our grandparents a evil for trying to find coping mechanisms during period of time when pain control was very poor and mental health services were Zero. These are reviews of Hitchens book about mother Teresa (The Missionary Position) from atheists who read the book. Of course you will have to take it in good faith and on face value like Hitchens did with his so called witnesses, half truths and accounts that these reviews are reliable sources. “As an atheist and a person who insists on following logical principles, I'm extremely disappointed with this book. The fact that it's less than 100 pages of large print with no appendix of citable sources says a lot about the substance of this book, or lack thereof. The language is extremely leading, and reading this book gave me the same feeling of revulsion I got watching the logic-free documentary Vaxxed. Hitchens will weirdly focus on one thing and then go on for pages as if it's some sort of damning evidence. For instance, the book starts off talking about a photo that exists of MT with Michele Duvalier. And the Duvaliers are bad. And there she is, right there in the photo with one of them. And they're holding hands and looking at each other. Right there in that photo. With the bad woman. And she's smiling. And she doesn't deny it. And therefore MT is a horrible person, the worst kind of person, and it's totally obvious. He goes on for pages with stuff like this, and it's a very tedious read. He also weirdly makes her out to be horrible and fanatical because she takes Christian stances, like being anti-abortion. Really? The missionary Christian nun buys into the Church's position on abortion? Shocking. Or not. It's also apparently her fault that people claim that she performed miracles that she never once claimed to have performed. I mean, he's bashing her because the Church sainted her and he thinks her miracles were a sham. Yet, he's an atheist, which means that he thinks all miracles and saints are a sham. Why is MT somehow worse than the rest? He's also fixated on her forgiving people, questioning by whose authority she forgives, and what right does she have to forgive, and no one asked her for forgiveness. As if each of us doesn't have the right to forgive others for the slights and errors we perceive in them. The only semi-valid points Hitchens makes are that she might have spent the money that was donated to her in a more constructive way, and that she took money that maybe she shouldn't have taken, or that she should have returned. But he doesn't even do a good job validating those positions. For instance, maybe she could have built a hospital for the poor as he points out, but her mission was giving comfort to the dying, not curing the sick. All in all this book was a waste of time. It's nothing more than a lame attempt to tarnish another person, and for no obviously valid reason. It's a takedown for the sake of takedown, and it's utterly unconvincing.” “As an atheist reader, I was expecting Hitchens to expose Mother Teresa as some sort of phony based on what I heard about this book. Instead, he merely speculates about her alleged intentions and smears her with basically no supporting evidence whatsoever. I expected more from Hitchens, who holds himself out as a provider of truth. This book was completely pointless - it told me nothing about Mother Theresa other than that Christopher Hitchens has a baseless hunch that she wasn't as great a person as many people believe her to be.” “It appeared to me that Hitchens had already formulated his opinion of this nun who spent her whole life helping the poor and sick, then used examples and quotes out of context to support this. His inability to accept that help and dedication even when sometimes misguided adds up to infinitely more than the contribution of a literary critic who appears to be impressed by little more than his arrogant estimation of his own intelligence.” “This is a mean spirited book typical of a mean spirited writer” “This is a mean spirited book typical of a mean spirited writer who detested religion and charity. Hitchens was a man who always considered himself absolutely right on every subject despite having moved politically from the extreme left to the extreme right and physically by moving from Britain to the United States. He abandoned England in a similar manner to the Cambridge spies, that is gravitating to a perceived larger more influential country or ideology and despising the land of their birth. The book is sloppily researched and full of self conceit on the part of the writer. Opinions are treated as fact and lies taken on face value We have all come across people like Hitchens in our lives. They are the sort who stand outside the tough truths of life sneering at those who attempt to help alleviate suffering or troubles and who avoid getting involved apart from copiously criticising workers trying to get the job done.The small bully egging on the large bully from a safe distance. Whether Mother Theresa of Calcutta is a saint is beyond my judgement. She was a fallible human being who dd her best under extreme circumstances and deserves credit for this not a verbal onslaught from a man who never raised a finger to help others and deserves to be swiftly forgotten”. “Devoid of substance”
Mother Theresa had a 15 year old boy in her establishment who had a kidney problem that could have been cured with surgery. But she would not let him be taken to any hospital as she didn't want to pay for the surgery.......the boy was suffering and left to die when he could have been cured. I have suffered the pain of kidney problems and I was in agony, but I was given Fentanyl and morphine for the pain and I had ex rays and scans in the hospital, It was kidney stones and I passed them after 4 days and the pain ended.
Hitchens was a lazy gossip and slander journalist who tried to attract people to his articles by being controversial .. He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora ......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted. At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂️Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs. The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done. Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. “Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana. Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.” The demand for medical marijuana Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits. “It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.” Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids. Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news
This segment was my introduction to Hitch in 2010, which eventually lead me to become an atheist after my evangelical church failed me miserably some years later. True, he did allow some omissions in his book "God is not great", but all in all the breath of his knowledge was astonishing. I should know, I did a fan translation of it some years before the official edition and I am myself pretty well-read. I do not miss him, because I think he did all he could do in the time he had left. There is no loss. Some people die as a direct consequence of their lifestyle and to wish for Hitchens to not smoke or drink himslef silly or Freddy Mercury not to contract AIDS means to reinvented their charcter and lifestyle into something completely different. As far as the afterlife of a person consists of his intellectual and genetic legacy, he is still pretty much alive to me. Only ten years ago, while he was alive, it looked like Islam would never come into question and Hitchens mentioned how textual criticism of the Q'ran is in its infancy. Muslims torched embassies and burned books. Now they have to think hard and develop all kinds of mental gymnastics to respond to growing criticism of their religion. This is just one of the many ways he contributed to a brighter world. In turn, this prompted many people to pick up the torch and influence many more. So he has pretty much did what needed to be done and secured his legacy. I hope I will be alive in 50 years to look back at this moment of time and remember how good we got it and how far we have gotten because of him and his peers. Had he survived, he would have been a brighter (alcochol-fueled ;) light in an increasingly brighter and expanding web of enlightened individuals. It is not nececassrily darker now because he is not with us - IMPO.
Losing him is a major loss to me. And I miss him like hell. I'm glad I feel this way. For me, it means he means that much to me. I'm okay with this feeling.
Hitchens rarely took the risk of using evidence to back up his opinion on Mother Teresa... I wish his sycophantic supporters delved into thinking for themselves ... When Mother Teresa was still alive a volunteer gave a presentation at my Church She described -- first hand having worked in Calcutta for over a year -- that the nuns were the most dedicated selfless and wonderful people she had ever come across. That they were totally devoted to the sick and dying worked over 70 hours a week with the poor ( in addition to prayers mass etc) The pictures you see are when the nuns stood back for five minutes so they did not appear on the filming and it looked like the sick were just left there. Volunteer (mostly ) Hindu (occasionally some Catholic doctors from the West) attend daily and administer what medicines they are allowed to by the State. As of 2013 across India it was estimated only 2% had proper palliative care when dying - because the State refuses to allow the medicines / puts huge administrative costs and hurdles in place. Even today outside wealthy homes with air conditioning most Indians sleep on a mattress on the floor - more preferable than on a bed cos it is a bit cooler Hitchens only convinces people who do not have detailed info. I have spent time explaining this because I have researched and taken an interest over decades and realise in your dedication to Hitchens you will just dismiss this out of hand.
You still have a way to go.... now be smart and a sceptic of Hitchens .. Hitchens rarely took the risk of using evidence to back up his opinion on Mother Teresa... I wish his sycophantic supporters delved into thinking for themselves ... When Mother Teresa was still alive a volunteer gave a presentation at my Church She described -- first hand having worked in Calcutta for over a year -- that the nuns were the most dedicated selfless and wonderful people she had ever come across. That they were totally devoted to the sick and dying worked over 70 hours a week with the poor ( in addition to prayers mass etc) The pictures you see are when the nuns stood back for five minutes so they did not appear on the filming and it looked like the sick were just left there. Volunteer (mostly ) Hindu (occasionally some Catholic doctors from the West) attend daily and administer what medicines they are allowed to by the State. As of 2013 across India it was estimated only 2% had proper palliative care when dying - because the State refuses to allow the medicines / puts huge administrative costs and hurdles in place. Even today outside wealthy homes with air conditioning most Indians sleep on a mattress on the floor - more preferable than on a bed cos it is a bit cooler Hitchens only convinces people who do not have detailed info. I have spent time explaining this because I have researched and taken an interest over decades and realise in your dedication to Hitchens you will just dismiss this out of hand.
@@RocketKirchner Even legends aren't perfect. I didn't agree with Hitchens' stance on the Iraq war either but you must agree there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein was a monster that needed to be removed from his position of power one way or another, sooner or later, by his own people (unlikely) or by international force. So you can't compare his support of the removal of an evil dictator to his criticism of the actions of corrupt and evil people and organisations throughout history like the Catholic church and Mother Teresa, and then call him a hypocrite. He was actually being consistent in his views.
Obviously the clip was edited to present one side. Saying Mother Teresa is a good person does not sell books. Hitchens claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora ......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted. At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂️Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs. The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done. Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. “Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana. Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.” The demand for medical marijuana Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits. “It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.” Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids. Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news
@@LGRW313 I know anti - Christians are the ones to read / listen from this site ... I just throw in some evidence and truth to contrast to the fiction of Pen and Hitchens 😊😊
Here in India she was one of the very few people to receive a state funeral.... The Congress really messed up our history books. She is still seen as a great person by many people in India.
@Jazzkeyboardist1 "of course atheists do not give money to charity" Another lie. The secular states give far more than the religious countries. England and Germany alone give more than USA. Sweden has one of the highest support per capita in the world, if not the highest. And we know perfectly well what would happen if atheist organizations would come to some places on earth, they would be killed by the religious.
@Colin Sheehan They absolutely were not doing the best they could. If they were, they would have used the hundreds of millions of dollars they took in to actually help the poor by hiring doctors and nurses and having humane living conditions. Instead, they gave the vast majority of the money to the Catholic church and used the small fraction of what was left over to put up shanty-like pseudo-hospitals without qualified people running it.
Don't forget Theresa also told the people of Africa that their poverty was "God's plan". I hope one day all religious institutions are demanded to pay taxes as any criminal organizations
I'm optimistic that this will happen, at least in secular democracies, because the younger generations ate increasingly not affiliated with organise religion.
8:43 - "She must've been so enlightened she glowed in the dark". That's a brilliant joke. For those who don't know, a camera crew in the 70s went to film her at the Home for the Dying (which is very dark on account of it being so grim). When returning to the UK they didn't expect to get much footage because of the lighting, but they were using a newly created film by Kodak that made the footage really bright in comparison to what they had been using. When they watched the footage, they were with Malcolm Muggeridge, a fanatic Cristian who as I recall was involved with the production. As the crew were commenting on the lighting, Muggeridge burst out loud "It's divine light!", thinking the reason the footage was so bright was because Mother Theresa was emitting divine light like Christ. The next day, the crew got hundreds of calls from journalists asking about the "miracle of Mother Theresa" because Malcolm Muggeridge told everyone about it and they all wanted to believe it. I don't remember, but I believe this was considered a miracle by the church, or something like it. It's all in Christopher Hitchens documentary about her.
I saw an interview with Malcolm Muggeridge in which he stated there was a power failure during filming but she emitted enough light for them to continue.
If they didn't, they wouldn't exist. The church is an organization that profits off of people's ignorance, willful or not. They ensure future earnings by sheltering children. Only way I got out was by joining the military and getting shipped around to various places where I got exposed to other ideas that helped me see how bogus religion is.
My local church has a collection every mass, including two collections on Sunday. This is to fix a leak in the church roof and install a new heating system. Neither of these things have been sorted, but the priest is driving around in a brand new BMW. Make of that what you will.
@@attackpatterndelta8949 my friend is a treasurer at her church. they have a pastor that just retired. Per the contract of his services, they gave him a house but he now wants a bonus after he retired and he wants his money reimbursed that he gifted the church when he started. mind you, the church cant even put new tires on the church van had to scrape tooth and nail to get a new kitchen so they could feed the homeless.
I remember, I used to pass out the plate where we collected their spare dollars. I grew up in a poor neighborhood. It's not a surprise I am no longer catholic.
@@andrewpierce1588 last time I had reason to be in a church, I looked at the collection plate, and for the first time realised that what I was truly seeing at was, essentially, a silver begging bowl with a velvet cushion in it. What's wrong with this picture?
"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason. It's the surrender of the only thing that make us different from other mammals". Whoa... that alone's worth the price of admission.
@@mrshankerbillletmein491 Thats some badshit poor logic right there. How can an expert be without knowledge in the first place? Do you even know what the word expert means? I honestly feel like you could be one of those people who have no to very little insight to how basic science actually works
@@mrshankerbillletmein491 Darwinism is based on factual evidence e.g. the fossil record. Science continues to prove him correct on most of his work. As someone who deals in hard evidence I find it hard to believe that some holy person who has been dead for five years has two miracles attributed to them and then becomes a saint.
Faith isn't the surrender of the mind or abandonment of reason. The word "faith", at least in the Bible and therefore how most Christians define it, is synonymous with "trust". What you have your faith in is what you trust in, and while it is certainly true that someone can put their trust in foolish things, it is equally possible to trust in sound and reasonable things. Faith qua faith is neither good nor bad. It entirely depends on what you have your faith *IN* as to whether you are wise or stupid for having that faith. In the Bible, God actually tells us, "Come let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18). Anyone who is telling you to turn off your brain and "just believe" is not practicing the actual religion as prescribed by Scripture. Those Christians who, like me, enjoy reasoning, rationality, and logic, are just as annoyed by the nutcases who pretend they can believe anything they want and just SAY it's the same faith. In fact, Atheists who complain about those kind of religious charlatans actually have allies with those of us who believe. We just wish atheists would stop acting like the fraudulent people they point at actually represent all believers, when the reality is that if the surveys are to be believed, the vast majority of Americans believe in God and yet only a handful fit the stereotypical "fundamentalist" believer used as a foil by folks like Hitchens. Indeed, to reverse the analogy, it would be like Christians pretending that all atheists are versions of Stalin or Mao, who each murdered millions of people and were ardently anti-religious.
when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
9:32 reminds me of the old 70s or 80s SNL weekend update bit with Father Guido Sarducci complaining about number of miracles required for sainthood and how one of his competitors' miracles was a card trick
The amount of money she collected for charity is more than enough to save all the poor in india at that time... Where is it?. Not even the refugees in her hospital got a decent food and medicine for atleast a day. As an indian i am ashamed to say she got nobel for peace.
As an Indian you should be more ashamed that your government did less for the poor than Mother Teresa otherwise they would have gone to Indian government care!! She had 500 centres around the World say 100 in each centre 50 000 at $2 a day that is $100 000 = $1 million every 10 days
Funny how, when she got sick, she went straight to an American hospital to get the best Western medicine money could buy.
God knows she had the BUCKS!🤣👍
Suffering for thee but not for me. Typical religious hypocrisy.
@@tygrahof9268 was you a poet and didn't know it?!🤣👍
I DIDN'T NO THAT. THANKS
Nice attempt to push this religious fraud of on atheists. This was a christian mission through and through.
Teresa(refusing pain meds to someone in terminal stages of cancer): Think of your pain as kisses from Jesus.
Patient: Please ask Jesus to stop kissing me.
“Teresa (refusing pain meds to someone in terminal stages of cancer”
References and citations please this is a myth.
These are reviews of Hitchens book about mother Teresa (The Missionary Position). Of course you will have to take it in good faith and on face value like Hitchens did with his so called witnesses, half truths and accounts that these reviews are reliable sources.
“As an atheist and a person who insists on following logical principles, I'm extremely disappointed with this book. The fact that it's less than 100 pages of large print with no appendix of citable sources says a lot about the substance of this book, or lack thereof. The language is extremely leading, and reading this book gave me the same feeling of revulsion I got watching the logic-free documentary Vaxxed. Hitchens will weirdly focus on one thing and then go on for pages as if it's some sort of damning evidence. For instance, the book starts off talking about a photo that exists of MT with Michele Duvalier. And the Duvaliers are bad. And there she is, right there in the photo with one of them. And they're holding hands and looking at each other. Right there in that photo. With the bad woman. And she's smiling. And she doesn't deny it. And therefore MT is a horrible person, the worst kind of person, and it's totally obvious. He goes on for pages with stuff like this, and it's a very tedious read. He also weirdly makes her out to be horrible and fanatical because she takes Christian stances, like being anti-abortion. Really? The missionary Christian nun buys into the Church's position on abortion? Shocking. Or not. It's also apparently her fault that people claim that she performed miracles that she never once claimed to have performed. I mean, he's bashing her because the Church sainted her and he thinks her miracles were a sham. Yet, he's an atheist, which means that he thinks all miracles and saints are a sham. Why is MT somehow worse than the rest? He's also fixated on her forgiving people, questioning by whose authority she forgives, and what right does she have to forgive, and no one asked her for forgiveness. As if each of us doesn't have the right to forgive others for the slights and errors we perceive in them. The only semi-valid points Hitchens makes are that she might have spent the money that was donated to her in a more constructive way, and that she took money that maybe she shouldn't have taken, or that she should have returned. But he doesn't even do a good job validating those positions. For instance, maybe she could have built a hospital for the poor as he points out, but her mission was giving comfort to the dying, not curing the sick. All in all this book was a waste of time. It's nothing more than a lame attempt to tarnish another person, and for no obviously valid reason. It's a takedown for the sake of takedown, and it's utterly unconvincing.”
“As an atheist reader, I was expecting Hitchens to expose Mother Teresa as some sort of phony based on what I heard about this book. Instead, he merely speculates about her alleged intentions and smears her with basically no supporting evidence whatsoever. I expected more from Hitchens, who holds himself out as a provider of truth. This book was completely pointless - it told me nothing about Mother Theresa other than that Christopher Hitchens has a baseless hunch that she wasn't as great a person as many people believe her to be.”
“It appeared to me that Hitchens had already formulated his opinion of this nun who spent her whole life helping the poor and sick, then used examples and quotes out of context to support this. His inability to accept that help and dedication even when sometimes misguided adds up to infinitely more than the contribution of a literary critic who appears to be impressed by little more than his arrogant estimation of his own intelligence.”
“This is a mean spirited book typical of a mean spirited writer”
“This is a mean spirited book typical of a mean spirited writer who detested religion and charity.
Hitchens was a man who always considered himself absolutely right on every subject despite having moved politically from the extreme left to the extreme right and physically by moving from Britain to the United States. He abandoned England in a similar manner to the Cambridge spies, that is gravitating to a perceived larger more influential country or ideology and despising the land of their birth.
The book is sloppily researched and full of self conceit on the part of the writer. Opinions are treated as fact and lies taken on face value
We have all come across people like Hitchens in our lives. They are the sort who stand outside the tough truths of life sneering at those who attempt to help alleviate suffering or troubles and who avoid getting involved apart from copiously criticising workers trying to get the job done.The small bully egging on the large bully from a safe distance.
Whether Mother Theresa of Calcutta is a saint is beyond my judgement. She was a fallible human being who dd her best under extreme circumstances and deserves credit for this not a verbal onslaught from a man who never raised a finger to help others and deserves to be swiftly forgotten”.
“Devoid of substance”
“Teresa (refusing pain meds to someone in the stages of terminal cancer)”
What can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence!
Evidence and citations please this is just half truths and extraordinary speculation. Half truths and speculation are not evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence! All these accounts have been taken on face value. I’ll stick with Lady Diana’s account of Mother Teresa thanks all the same. There’s nothing Earth shattering about the fact that a Catholic nun would try to take a stoic approach to discomfort and material belongings. This is a non sequitur and it is beyond doubt that Christopher Hitchens is not a reliable and neutral witness or researcher regarding this subject matter as he earned a six figure sum demonising religious expression in order to sell certainty to atheists. She was 87 in 1997 and most of the older generation who went through WW2 took a stoic approach to suffering including the non religious as a coping mechanism and encouraged others to do the same. Men and boys in particular were encouraged to endure struggles and suffering. Should we label our grandparents as evil for doing something that was part of the cultural norm. Nevertheless , theres no evidence Mother Teresa did this to a harmful degree its pure speculation, myth and attrition bias. Similarly there’s no evidence that she refused to give opioids to patients with severe pain or that she refused to use algorithms for pain management as they didn’t even exist until the World Health Organisation developed the algorithms for pain management (The analgesic ladder) in 1986. Drugs for sever pain such as opioids were highly restricted in India at the time so the drugs that were used in most hospitals during the period of time Hitchens is referring to we would now only use for mild to moderate pain control. It’s common knowledge among health care professionals that even doctors and nurses in hospitals in India at the time had very poor pain management skills poor access to strong opioids and ineffective “algorithms” as effective algorithms did not exist for goodness sake. So why single out an hospice run by nuns when it was like this all over India due to the poor knowledge of people who were considered at the forefront of medicine and nursing at the time. The fact is that the world was still waiting for the science and evidence based practice to evolve with regards to the safe and effective administration of opioids. Morphine was dangerous and caused respiratory depression until pain control experts eventually developed an appropriate algorithm in 1986 that nurses and doctors could implement on the wards. It’s only in the last 20 years that devices like (PCAs/ patient controlled analgesia) has evolved to the level where ward staff are comfortable managing the side effects for a patient who is self administering morphine through a pump syringe driver directly into the patient’s vein to free up ward nurses for other urgent duties. Hitchens didn’t have a clue and has clearly been debunked by healthcare professionals.
“Teresa (refusing pain meds to someone in the stages of terminal cancer)”
If Christopher Hitchens had researched properly and not lied people wouldn’t be completely mislead
Dr Fox who Hitchens uses as his main source of reference for criticising mother Teresa’s hospice, Dr Fox himself notes that weak analgesics (like acetaminophen) were used to alleviate pain; what was lacking were strong analgesics like morphine. Hitchens conveniently neglected to mention this fact.
The wording is important, Fox only noted 'a lack of painkillers' without indicating it's cause, not that Teresa was actively withholding them on principle.
What Hitchens wouldn't talk about is the responses Dr. Fox got from other palliative care professionals. Three prominent palliative care professionals, Dr. David Jeffrey, Dr. Joseph O'Neill and Ms. Gilly Burn, founder of Cancer Relief India, responded to Fox on the Lancet.They note three main difficulties with respect to pain control in India: "1) lack of education of doctors and nurses, 2) few drugs, and 3) very strict state government legislation, which prohibits the use of strong analgesics even to patients dying of cancer", with about "half a million cases of unrelieved cancer pain in India” How convenient of Hitchens to ignore the problems that were wide spread across India that were identified by three top experts in a top medical journal such as the Lancet. Hitchens attempts to destroy Mother Teresa and his cult following who accepted every thing he claimed as gospel truth can only be described as fanatical.
Before (WHO) The World Health Organisation developed an algorithm in 1986 (Analgesic ladder) for the effective and safer usage of analgesics even people in first world hospitals were in hospital much longer on bed rest due to poor recovery times caused by bad mobility which was caused by poor pain management resulting in many more people dying of DVT complications and infection. These nuns provided an hospice, food shelter, comfort warmth for a while in a time and place that was extremely challenging for even highly trained medical and nursing staff in India and even in first world hospitals at the time (Lancet,
Dr. David Jeffrey, Dr. Joseph O'Neill and Ms. Gilly Burn, founder of Cancer Relief India)
Mother Teresa’s hospices were not an highly equipped hospice with regards to effective and safe pain control because even the best equipped hospitals in the first world struggled until the World Health Organisation developed algorithms in 1986 for safe and effective pain management. MTs hospice wasn’t even an hospital! Nevertheless, since the dangers regarding morphine weren’t as well known and strict prior to the WHO guidance on safe and effective usage of opioids , the Charity was able to use stronger painkillers like morphine and codeine injections at least occasionally under prescription at their homes, as witnesses have described. Iv references and sources for this if required. Historically and traditionally, hospices were run by religious institutions and were places of hospitality for the sick, wounded, or dying and for travelers. The fact is that the first oral morphine tablets (the essential drug of palliative medicine) only arrived in India in 1988 under heavy regulations
To single out Mother Teresa's hospice is unfair and disingenuous when it was an issue not just for hospices, but hospitals in India and in first world hospitals too
Just a peripheral research of the claims regarding Mother Teresa’s use of analgesics demonstrates Hitchens half truths to be completely absurd. One of the Dr fox references Hitchens uses he conveniently doesn’t mention the fact that Dr Fox himself said the hospice was clean and people were well cared for. Also Dr Fox never actually stated Mother Teresa refused to give painkillers but only stated “there was a lack of painkillers”.
The list of inaccuracies and half truths in Hitchens dishonest attack on mother Teresa goes on. There’s a lot of evidence out there if you can be bothered to fact check but apparently if you want to find evidence to demonise a frail old women and the thousands of volunteers who helped her tend to the poor, sick, homeless and dying you will find it.❤️
This is so sad because the charity will have lost and is continuing to lose needed financial aid and volunteers due to this smear campaign. Please share the truth. It’s not about winning an argument it’s about helping the poor, sick and dying ❤️
@@georgedoyle7971 No Hitch, No Penn and Teller here. Just a good ole "crikey" report on Teresa's work "for Christ". ua-cam.com/video/wl9arzVuZbA/v-deo.html
Also, for an enlightening contrast on helping the sick and the dying of Calcutta (Kolkata), it is worthwhile learning about the great work of Dr. Jack Preger. He did not work for Jesus, instead, he devoted his time, energy and knowledge to helping the People.
Years back in India I met a young Irish nurse who had volunteered for Theresa's centre in Kolkata. She left in dismay after a child was denied potentially life-saving treatment. She was also appalled by the squalor, lack of hygiene and lack of basic pain management. She met Theresa and found her rigid and uncompassionate. She felt the place was a reprehensible death cult.
And Theresa wasn't revered in India as the Catholic guy claimed. With the people I knew she was seen as a condescending imperialist.
The claims of my Irish friend are corroborated by many similar accounts by other volunteer nurses and doctors, and by a peer reviewed paper in the Lancet journal.
For real?
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 What do you think - I made it up?? Not only did she leave - it made her question her Catholic faith that the Church was supporting this woman. She was very shaken up by it all.
Anecdotal evidence! Stop jumping on the band wagon.
How hypocritical! Its OK to accuse Mother Teresa of being guilty by association but Hitchens gets a get out of Jail free card for publicly supporting the Iraq war, a war that lead to the deaths of thousands of innocent men women and children and turned out to be unjustified. If mother Teresa is guilty by association then Hitchens is also guilty by association as his friend Sam Harris supports torture, Dawkins promotes the idea eugenics would work on humans and Daniel Dennette promotes the idea that accountability and free will including consciousness is an illusion so the Nazis were not accountable for their actions.
When your defending Hitchens please remember to defend all these horrific ideologies. There is no real difference between Hitchens’s outrage to “reason” and a right wing homophobic evangelical’s outrage to God. Equally, the cringe fest in the comments section of any Hitchens debate from his cult following and the outright hatred of religious expression and ironic worship of Hitchens makes the most happy clappy right wing homophobic evangelical look like an acolyte of human rights in comparison. Hitchens made a six figure sum demonising moderate religious expression in order to sell certainty to atheists.
But Hitchens knew the papal encyclicals of the last fifty years have consistently criticized the way in which capitalism preys upon the poor (more consistently than the lapsed Marxist Hitchens himself). Not to recognize the work of liberation theology the priests and bishops who were assassinated defending the poor. For Hitchens to purposely disregard this is a shortcoming very worthy of criticism, however much New atheists such as the “four horsemen” wish to deny it. Hitchens intellectually dishonest approach would inevitably backfire as evidenced in his support of the Iraq war. A war that lead to the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women and children and turned out to be completely unjustified and lead to rise of terrorism and more innocent lives destroyed. Similarly, Hitchens comrade Sam Harris’s approach to people’s “well being” lead to him promoting state sponsored torture. In the same vein Dawkins completely undermined his own credibility by promoting the idea that eugenics would work on humans and Daniel Dennette the only real philosopher among the ironic “four horsemen” most worryingly promoted the idea that moderate religious believers were more dangerous than extremists. I think the bereaved families of the holocaust victims would beg to differ with Dawkins that eugenics works on humans and with Daniel Dennette that moderate religious believers are more dangerous than extremists. In contrast the brilliant cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky responded to this worrying trend and its unquestioning cult following with “I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.” (Noam Chomsky)
In discussing the exodus, Hitchens basically rewrites history and insists that “There was no flight from Egypt, no wandering in the desert . . . , and no dramatic conquest of the Promised Land. It was all, quite simply and very ineptly, made up at a much later date.”(Christopher Hitchens). According to Hitchens historical revisionism “No Egyptian chronicle mentions this episode either, even in passing. . . . All the Mosaic myths can be safely and easily discarded.” Hitchens rhetoric clearly demonstrates a superficial survey of the evidence. Might we suggest that Hitchens begin with Hoffmeier’s Israel in Egypt and Ancient Israel in Sinai? It should be noted that Hoffmeier’s books were not published by some small evangelical theological press but by Oxford University hardly a bastion of regressive fundamentalist apologetics. Hitchens’s claim that “no Egyptian chronicle mentions this episode (of Moses and the Israelites) either, even in passing” is simply untrue. Let’s not forget “what can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence”. Ironically in Hitchens case if the evidence conflicts with your own personal agenda and anti religious ideology just fabricate the evidence.
According to Noam Chomsky...
“religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in helping those in need. In contrast, the US carried out a virtual war against the church in central America in the 1980’s primarily because prime elements in the church were working with great courage and honor to help those in need. And to organize them to help themselves. It is more than symbolic that the decade opened with the assassination of an archbishop and ended with the murder of 6 Jesuit intellectuals, in both cases by military forces armed and trained by the US government.”
(Noam Chomsky).
Where was Hitchens conscience during the Iraq war or when he knowingly falsified the history of religious and philosophical ideas. ?
As Nietzsche wrote in "Beyond Good and Evil," “No one is such a liar as an indignant man.”
No offence intended all the best to you and your family and keep safe during this Corona virus crisis ❤️
The remarkable thing about Hell’s Angel is that it purports to defend the poor against Mother Teresa’s supposed exploitation of them, while never actually interviewing any on screen. Not a single person cared for by the Missionaries speaks on camera. Was this because they had a far higher opinion of Blessed Teresa than Hitchens would permit in his film?
Avoiding the people at the heart of Teresa’s ministry, Hitchens posed for the camera and let roll a series of ad hominem attacks and unsubstantiated accusations, as uninformed as they were cruel. He called Muggeridge-one of the most acclaimed journalists of the twentieth century-an “old fraud and mountebank,” mocked his belief in the supernatural, and even referred to Mother Teresa as a “presumable virgin.”
She was denounced for meeting with unsavory politicians and businessmen, in order to assist the poor, but ironically, it is Hitchens who used the film to promote Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a notorious ex-priest whose record as Haiti’s President was symbolized by corruption and abuse. Of Teresa’s travels abroad, Hitchens declared: “She may or may not comfort the afflicted, but she has certainly never been known to afflict the comfortable”-but the documentary shows her doing exactly that, decrying abortion in front of affluent pro-choice audiences.
Indians do not like the publicity she got for her voluntary work. This was because while they have a space programme and are the Worlds 7th biggest military spenders they did not want the World to know they do not give a dam about their poor ....... He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora
......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted.
At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂️Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs.
The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done.
Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
“Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana.
Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.”
The demand for medical marijuana
Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits.
“It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.”
Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids.
Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news
Enormous respect to Penn and Teller. Had no idea these guys were so switched on.
I saw Penn (he’s the big guy, right) on a Joy Behar show (I think), and he was debating the existence of god with a Rabbi. The Rabbi said something about Penn not believing in god, and Penn replied, “I not only don’t believe in god, I can’t believe YOU believe!” I’ve never forgotten that! ❤. I’m going to have to UA-cam or Google that interview with Joy. It was awesome!
Heck yeah, amazingly revealing. And they are switched totally onto Hitchens which is obviously a sign of great science respecting minds. I don’t know why I knew so little about Ms Theresa either. Great doco, glad it’s here. Reminds me I’m not as crazy as I suspected haha 😅
Just gonna mention The Amazing Randi..
Have you seen the series?..its brilliant..opened my eyes to really vile and sick people who are revered in religious circles...ghandi was pretty horrible too
..check it out..
@@gmaellen5530when you find it, let us know please? Sounds like a great thing to see. I’ve often wondered the same thing, when I see supposedly intelligent people say they believe such things. Can you imagine a US president admitting that they DON’T believe in a God??? Political suicide
It’s amazing that her reputation remains intact, despite all that Hitch revealed. The power of ignorant people repeating the same lie often enough….
Give it time 🤔
Yea, their entire cult depends on it...
If you get enough idiots together in one place , they become self-hypnotising.
Not a MT fan, but Hitch's demeanor and sources aren't exactly reliable. He reads to me as somebody who's up his own end because he thinks he knows the right answer to everything where everybody else doesn't. He didn't reveal anything other than rumor for a woman he already had great disdain for.
@@Spoot401yeah that’s not true - there’s plenty of evidence.
Sorry if it conflicts with your world view.
If any one of us found ourselves in the position of caring for a terminally ill relative but what we actually did was to deny them any form of medical treatment and just tell them they needed to suffer for Jesus we would (quite rightly) be locked up for neglect yet this woman did exactly that for decades and on an industrial scale.
Christopher Hitchens is so spot on. And I love Penn And Teller for showing us this piece.
Christopher Hitchens was trying to sell books.
But he was absolutely correct.
@@Kitiwake he was an author and journalist, so… duh
Along the way he disclosed a lot of political and religious BS
when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
Most of the people she forced to suffer until death would have easily been treated with penicillin too. She’s the angel of death incarnate.
of course Christianity is a death cult after all
🤘.. How wicked was that C**T in Ireland. On behalf of Saint Sinead ~ Be Free Love One another ✊
A lot of them also died of cholera because of how they never sanitized anything. Tons of them died of cholera and all you have to do to survive cholera is drink water.
@@johns1625 yep because suffering brought them closer to God. That sick fucking demented bitch.. she’s way closer to Satan’s wife then she is being a saint
In Reality, She did not Force People to Suffer, Hitchens simply Lied about that. The Pennicilin Crack isn;t True Either.
My grandparents owned a restaurant in India, I remember my grandmother telling me what an evil woman she was. She had lots of donations from them and businesses in the area yet the so called hospital was a shit pit.
Damn it, your comment made me hungry! lol! (LOVE Indian food).
Think about it. 1/ It was still a lot better than the alternative otherwise people would have brought their relatives there. 2/ Hindus should be ashamed at how they do not care for their poor with more Billionaires in India than the UK they could afford to look after their own poor. So they deflect saying they are not in poverty or the foreigners are not helping.
@@1234poppycat it may be better than zero but she subverted the vast sums she collected to the church while no pain relief for them (heroin is cheap!!) Another theft. I should send you pictures of the convents in our town. They have rooms for drawing, for pottery making, for painting, they have a room for greeting card signing! Their own hospital within. Therapy pools, their own million dollar chapel, living areas with multiple fireplaces, grand pianos, commercial dining facilities, state of the art everything. 2 employees per nun. They pray for the poor...but you'd have to be a 100 millionaire to afford that nursing home.
@@mp5249 Well give me the link of pictures of the nuns living in great wealth as you claim ... I know you will not be able to do this because such claims are not true. I await your excuse
@@1234poppycat lol then come to Iowa. One convent is under reconstruction at the cost of 1/2 million per nun. There simply are no new nuns. The other convent has two under age 60, both are from Vietnam and are here to go to college.
"It must be the most successful emotional con-job of the 20th century."
Hitchens never met my ex-wife.
*****
Yup.
KatherineMacChesney
What makes you say that?
+KatherineMacChesney You're a symptom of everything wrong with this world. Now, shut up, sweety.
KatherineMacChesney
Question: If my ex-wife had cheated on me, taken $10 000 of my money and left without even so much of a good-bye, is it still my fault then?
I will never understand this growing trend in society that assumes a woman can do no wrong simply because she doesn't have a penis.
KatherineMacChesney
LOL, what of when family court asks him to pay, cleaning his account all the same? Heads i win, tails you lose, is that how you play?
I bet your bf/ hubby dumped you for someone sweeter, nicer, one who thinks feminists are absolute shit.
“Mother Teresa wasn’t a friend of the poor, she was a friend of poverty.”
-Christopher Hitchens
I’m sure this isn’t that controversial in the corridors of the church. They cannot admit it in public. She’s the saint of hypocrite rich conservative catholics.
@Rei Ren indeed. She was a propaganda coup for the rich conservative 'catholics' who want their sheep poor and pliable. There was no way her sainthood could have been sidestepped. She represents a retrograde view of Catholicism.
A ridiculous hit job by a compulsive polemicist. Utter garbage.
@@fabioq6916 Except it's true. No moral values.
@@fabioq6916 you are half right: hitchens is a compulsive polemicist. Now you have a constructive and edifying rebuttal to make?
Hitchens was a brilliant and a true hero to humanity. We will look back at his legacy in the future and many more will realize how important and valuable his contributions were.
Love you Christopher Hitchens☮️
I wish this video had more views after being on since 2011. I also wish Hitch was still with us. Thanks Penn & Teller for narrating the truth with such real passion.
when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
She was obsessed with herself and the Vatican. I thought she was horrible.
"Begins lighting cigarette"
Interviewer: "Can we finish this first?"
Hitchens: :Ok" Continues to smoke cigarette
You got to love Hitchens
+Steve Rohan forever self indulgent forever a self publicist the cynical negative over consuming lifestyle did for him in the end.. You have to pity Hitchens..
Hitchens is on the same level as Mother Theresa, made his bucks blowing smoke up peoples asses
Richard Wyant Hitch opened people's eyes to the corrupt nature of religion etc. He didn't take millions for herself like Teresa
Steve It does not take much for Hitchens to impress you. As a fully paid up member of his sycophant circle you obviously like the man others see his opinions as just that even though his sycophants see them as facts they must unquestionably accept.
@@1234poppycat you're an idiot. We like Hitchens because he phrased things eloquently and had a sharp wit. We don't accept what he says at face value.
"Can we do this first?"
*lighting up another cigarette* "Okay."
Fuck, I miss Hitch.
What do you miss Jesse ? Him justifying Bush bloody war for oil in Iraq ? He is no position to criticize anyone .
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That i miss so much...
@@RocketKirchner He was in position to criticize all the dishonest people of the world. The fact that he had a wrong opinion, more than one I would say, changes nothing to that.
@@RocketKirchner Hitch got it wrong sometimes, he's only human
@@RocketKirchner yes I agree with you on that point,
what about his dislike of religion? and the god of the bible being a dick!
Man, Hitchens was a beacon of truth and reason, and a fountain of knowledge. We need more Hitchenses in the world. R.I.P.
Edit: Penn and Teller are fucking great, too.
Hitchens was an arrogant narcissistic fool.
@@Phill0old oh, shit! Yeah, you’re right! I’ve never looked at it that way before. You’ve convinced me.
@@Jo-id9zm Of course you have never looked at it that way because you are the same kind of person. Sadly your pride and arrogance will lead you to the same consequences. Being a smart ass looks good until reality bites
@@Phill0old quite literally everything hitchens said, can be fact checked. He was against liars, hence his love of destroying religious idiots.
I'm guessing you're a theist who saw some truth in what he was saying, so reverted to your default setting of condemning anything that sheds light on the fact religion is utter nonsense, and detrimental to humanity
@@poozer1986 The interesting thing about facts is that they are in need of interpretation. They don't tell us anything in and of themselves. So you can interpret them one way and I another way and others yet more ways. The question is what agenda the interpreter has. Hitchens had an agenda. He was also prone to being smart and evasive when it suited him. He is not alone in that but you pretending he was some sort of secular saint is amusing.
take money from the rich who took it from the poor to give it to the vatican. Sweet woman
xxxKimxxx , must be a drumpf supporter to believe such lies, fake news, alternative facts and conspiracy theories!!
@Jazzkeyboardist1 Bill Gates (not religious) helps the Indians far more than Theresa did though...
Greek Orthodox have their version he’s dead now. But his name is Elder Ephraim. Guy raked in millions of dollars
Who gave it to the poor.
@@aoeu256 but she still helped them though. And i believe bill Gates helped her help them and poor across the world.
I hate seeing Hitch smoking, knowing that it will eventually take his life. He is missed.
Hitch's death deprives the world of his wit and insight, especially on matters (religion, Mother Teresa) that others treat with undeserved reverence. "Mumble"? Hitch was as erudite as they come, his command of English and his delivery was, indeed, amazing. "Pseudo-intellectual"? Hitchens was a brilliant, best-selling public intellectual and polemicist who earned the respect of those in and out of his aggressively atheistic camp. In addition, there was nothing fake about him: The reason you can smugly remark on his "sips of scotch" is because he didn't care enough to try to hide his "vices" from public scrutiny.
"Garbage"? Certainly not Hitchens and the inspiration he gave to other freethinkers. However, that epithet fits with your lame sarcasm, for example, "like....uhh...umm...oh yeah" = you are pushing your index finger in your chin while looking skyward, feigning a brilliant insight into the obvious that Hitch did "jack squat", except it is not obvious but a mere difference of opinion about Hitch's legacy. Your attempt at sarcasm is not only clumsy and obvious, it is misplaced and not clever in the least. Don't be butthurt. You tried.
nunya baznus
The people that call him pseudo-intellectual demonstrate they have no idea who he was. Either that or they dont know what the word even means and are just repeating what they saw in a You Tube comment.
nunya baznus You're an idiot.
(That's about as intellectual an answer as you deserve).
nunya baznus
It sounds to me like you are the biased one. He made enemies easily and no doubt offended you too in some way. I don't agree with all his views either, but I can look at the man as a whole and see his successes. He was certainly regarded as an intellectual peer by a great many people more important then you, that's for sure.
nunya baznus
He caused people, MANY, MANY people, to THINK. He inspired that in people. How about you?
Hitchens was the one who performed miracles: He made efforts to really educate people.
Atheists will go to any lengths to try to ruin the reputation of Mother Teresa They will have plenty of gullible atheists believing them. Hitchens was good with the one liners but usually had nothing to back it up, only his sycophants would think it smart because they were just having their prejudices confirmed with his opinion. THINK He is offering his opinion and that is not backed up with facts!!
@@1234poppycat really you are a moron if thats what you believe I have visited her so called hospital in calcatta its a torture chamber a squalid house of death where did the millions go that she raised straight into the coffers of the catholic church blinded by faith is true in your case ignorance breeds religion. religion breeds ignorance
@@1234poppycat I'll try to be as polite as I can. No Atheist, or believer for that matter, should even have to try to ruin Mother Theresa's "reputation". She did that for herself, in life. Her so called "Reputation" is one of complete lies, fabrication and fantasy. Agnes, was a horrible and cruel woman, who caused more suffering than she ameliorated, and was a TOTAL fraud and a THIEF!! PERIOD !! Those are the FACTS, they're readily available to everyone in the world to see and learn. The Catholic Church is an ABOMINATION. There's practically NO SUCH THING as a real, practicing Catholic, anywhere in the world today, and the only reason this superstitious stupidity still exists today, is because of gullible, fearful, ignorant people like you. Please do not confuse ignorance with stupidity. There is a big difference, and if YOU are ACTUALLY still under the impression, and the belief system, that Mother (Agnes) Theresa was a "good" person, then I hate to have to tell you, that you are ABYSMALLY IGNORANT !! All the truth and the facts about her, and that TORTURE CHAMBER called the Home for the Dying, are readily available for anyone to see. I really hope that you will do some serious research into this, and PLEASE, don't be afraid to look up the REAL, DOCUMENTED, UNDENIABLE FACTS AND CRIMES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH throughout history. I sincerely wish you luck on your road to, at least "some" enlightenment.
@@paulstewart7529 Your absolutely correct. Agnes was a horrible person, a total fraud and a thief!! It's enraging to think, that in this day and age, there is still such pathetic, superstition and stupidity!! If there was ever a MONUMENT, built to PROVE that the Catholic Church is nothing but filthy, evil, money hungry, FRAUD, it was this: "House for the Dying"!! The Catholic Church has stolen BILLIONS of dollars, and that DUMP didn't even have BEDS??? I can only imagine the kind of SLOP those poor children were forced to eat, while they "Suffered for Christ"!! If the Catholic Clergy had any decency or sincerity, THEY would live under those conditions, while the sick children were housed in the comforts and LUXURY of the Vatican. The Catholic Church DOES do a little good here and there. I've seen some proof of this, but for them to have allowed THOSE KIND OF CONDITIONS, at the Home for the Dying, while the conditions at the Vatican are ABOVE AND BEYOND that of ROYALTY, is REVOLTING !!
@@MikeS-um1nm I am so sorry for you. You don't know Catholicism and you have swallowed the opinion of Hitchens and others over the facts with regard to Mother Teresa. As for intelligence I am not going to list my post grad qualifications. Just because you put something in block capitals does not make it true ( UNDENIABLE FACTS AND CRIMES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ) Think for yourself.
The hitch on 3 scotches is still more intelligent than like 90% of people
not really.
@@rt-oc8ff You're a case in point that Hitchens was.
@@kingsman428 you want to worship a drunk go right ahead. now leave me alone "kingsman".
@@rt-oc8ff 🤣 Demonstrably you haven't worked out why you are a case in point.
@@kingsman428apparently you can't read and i bet it took you all day to learn demonstrably and twice as long to learn how to spell kingsman - very creative and unique. how many times did you have to watch it before you could figure out how to spell it. i asked you to leave me alone and i meant it. you're picking a fight with me here because you would never do it in person, so keep it up and i'm gonna do something about it. it's you who have shown what you really are, not me. and as far as my point of view, i'll defend it to my last breath because it's true. go bother someone else because well you can get away with it on here. we all get it dude. you don't believe in anything. you will soon. i'll pray for you. now leave me alone.
her magic trick was a miracle, she made over a billion dollars disappear
+Darryn Grabbe And the magic trick is that you made the millions turn into a billion ...... but then again don't worry yourself with facts ... few bother on this site !!
+AJA Deacon semantics, the official numbers do not mean much as the church has no accountability and often launders its money using charities as fronts to funnel back to the boss' in the funny hats
+Darryn Grabbe I posted ""And the magic trick is that you made the millions turn into a billion ...... but then again don't worry yourself with facts ... few bother on this site !!
+Darryn Grabbe And the magic trick is that you made the millions turn into a billion ...... but then again don't worry yourself with facts ... few bother on this site !!
Read more Show less "" Thanks for responding with more made up nonsense
made up nonsense, the irony
+Darryn Grabbe And the magic trick is that you made the millions turn into a billion ...... but then again don't worry yourself with facts ... few bother on this site !! yours is the made up nonsense ..... so no doubt you can explain your "" irony "" !!
"Dead people do not cure living people of disease"... we need more people like Christopher Hitchens.
No we need more people like Mother Teresa who actually help and care for the poor and oppressed. Hitchens did a good job focusing on his privileged lifestyle .... In his performances and writing when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
@@1234poppycat you’re a an ignorant and credulous fool.
So I have explained and all you can do is come up with insults ............
Qe need more people like Mother Teresa who actually help and care for the poor and oppressed. Hitchens did a good job focusing on his privileged lifestyle .... In his performances and writing when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
@@1234poppycat what a long winded way to tell the world you’re burying your head in the sand.
@@LifeOfRy It was people like Hitchens who buried their head up their ass that are the issue. Mother Teresa helped more people than Hitchens. The complaint they could have done more than the great amount they did rings hollow AND helps no one. It also ignores that the primary goal was saving souls and conversion.
I went to one of these Home of the Dying as a kid in India, one of the most grueling experiences ever. People strewn on the floor in pain and agony. I was 6 years old and I still hear that day like no other.
you should be more ashamed that your government did less for the poor than Mother Teresa otherwise they would have gone to Indian government care!! She had 500 centres around the World say 100 in each centre 50 000 at $2 a day that is $100 000 = $1 million every 10 days
@@1234poppycat Finger pointing, didn't the good Christ say he who never sinned cast the first stone?
It wouldn't be difficult for me to point at you.
@@krishnaveti hmm, why don’t you bury your head up your arsenal and pretend that you are better .. For all her faults, she did what she believed in.. she was an uneducated woman who wanted to help the poor in India… but you would rather, that the poor just begged for food and died on the streets… disgusting and shameful
@@franceleeparis37 she was murders, evil witch who got of, of seeing people die in agony. She created more suffering so that she could enjoy the death and the hopelessness of those she pretended to care about!
when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
As Hitch put it ' she was as about as far from the caring and loving attributes of a 'mother' as its possible to be '
Thankyou Penn and Teller for a superb job.
As long as you dont think you have been given any evidence , empirical data or reasoned logic and fact .... He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora
......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted.
At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂️Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs.
The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done.
Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
“Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana.
Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.”
The demand for medical marijuana
Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits.
“It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.”
Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids.
Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news
Hitches is missed! He shaped my youth with the ammunition of an open mind and to question everyone and everything!
Thanks for this. Just yesterday my roommate and I were listening to an NPR radio story about Mother T. We both started calling out Bullshit on her being portrayed as a Saint and laughed and laughed. Then today while going to UA-cam for something different, this popped up and reminded me of why we were laughing with just a bit of irony. Thanks for posting this and thanks to Penn and Teller and Chris as well!
Christopher please , he promised his Mother he would never let anyone call him Chris, he pulled up anyone who did . I heard one interviewer do it once n get away with it, he spoke very fast . His Mother took her own life . Miss the Hitch 🥃✌🏼
when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
*GASP!!!!!!*
It's *SEXIST!!!* to use the term "bullsh*t" when she cows go poop, too.
And, it's also *SPECIESIST!!!* because non-bovine animals also expel digestion remnants through their anal orifice.
In the future, instead of saying "bullsh*t", everyone should please say "Non-gender-specific non-species-specific animal excrement".
And instead of using "BS", please use "NSNSAE".
Thank you for your cooperation.
A good example of how your electronic devices are listening to you and using it to push the algoritmes in your “favour”.
"After a few more cigarettes and glasses of scotch..." I love you Hitch.
+Collin Berend that's why he died prematurely. Don't forget that
+iska788 House cat logic.
?
iska788
We don't know what caused his cancer. It's not that well known for what all can cause it. We know that his father also had it, though. Smoking and booze may be a factor, but we can't say that it was caused from it. As bad as they may be, they should not be the direct target for blame unless otherwise shown.
Collin Berend
He actually says in an interview that it did.
The fact that she was "revered by so many" is like saying that Bernie Madoff was respected for his investment advice
"I'm Christopher Hitchens and I'm the author of a book called the missionary position, which investigates mother Teresa."
I miss seeing this man live
@GJ Wight Used to be Samwise Hades isn't a place
Where did you see him?? Very jealous
Hitchens wanted to call the book "Holy Cow" (cow, in English slang is whore) -- the publisher wussed out.
Me too brother, me too.
Why would you want to see a man who supported with no evidence the war in Iraq.? Hitch is an entertaining hypocrite .
Hitchens was so awesome sadly missed but luckily his message and wisdom live on.
Still fooling his sycophants even after his death …. what did his millions $$$$$ get him in the end???
AJA Deacon a comfortable life of plenty fr a start
his message was one of bitterness and dishonesty
@@marcokite The Christians' message is one of b.s. But keep up that dream of yours about Seeing Granny Again after your stroll through the Pearly Gates...
@@marcokite Funny, I see your trite little 2 Samuel 24, scriptural story, in pretty much that exact same light.
Bitterness, pettiness - and dishonesty.
Thus, far.
I met Penn and Teller. Awesome dudes, better magicians. Teller’s voice is so formal. Penn loves his kids like crazy. His daughter ran to him after the show and he stopped everything to hug her.
I don't know why people feel the need to establish critics of religion as "good people". Even if they were assholes the facts wouldn't change.
@UC79mAinFiSWwWCH81ZR3bbg thank you. He felt the need to tell the story like it makes HIM an authority cuz he saw a guy hug his daughter. Well so do I, and I'm a piece of shit. So big deal.
@@B20C0 is the OP simply not relating an event?
I don't think the two things are directly related.
The quality of those hospices are disgusting.
The idea is to relieve suffering not encouraging it.
Hitchens has found the only real form of immortality.
i think you mean immorality.
@@MrGobsmack He didn't
I-m-o-r-t-a-l-i-t-y
@@MrGobsmack Immorality you are right His sycophantic supporters would not agree though.
Sadly, too soon.
Didn't it turn out that Mother Teresa was actually kind of a terrible person...
Ah, yes...it did.
No it turned out that lazy selfish people who were anti Catholic lied against her... now from someone who knows ""Denver Britto
1 week ago What a load of horseshit, i'm from India and she did more for the poor there and around the world than any of you here. Hitchens didn't do a drop if his own research for his book abd just relied on secondary reports from a few people with axes to grind. """
@@1234poppycat she believes that that suffering got them to heaven faster
She decided to not accept pain relief
@@1234poppycat All her detractors were godless bastards who earned obscene amounts of money, which funded their selfish, decadent lifestyles, by writing libellous poison about a pious lady who slept on hard floors, had no possessions, and devoted her life to relieving the suffering of the sick and afflicted.
@@fordicidia6361 what's wrong with being godless
@@1234poppycat how about the indian doctor that wrote a first hand account of what Mother Theresa did? Is he not qualified to speak on it? How about the video evidence of the terrible conditions in the “hospitals”? I can’t see how you can excuse that.
Anytime someone is that high on a pedestal and you’re not allowed to ask questions about… Red flags!
How have I missed viewing this for 12 years?? This is the most outstanding video I have seen in a long time. Bravo to the producers 😎🙏
As a religious person I'm not Hitchens biggest fan but I'll take him over someone as wicked as Mother Theresa.
Hitchens was more upfront.
Teresa is not fit to wipe his shoes. He has not led to the death of any individual. Teresa was a fraud.
God I miss Hitch!
I think there should be a campaign for the cannonisation of Christopher Hitchens. I'd like some of the religious trinkets in my house. A statue, a painting and some candles.
I suspect that the very idea of making Hitchens a saint would result in him coming back from the dead and stuffing the proposal where the sun dont shine. Having said that it would of course be the ultimate irony if the world were to find itself with a Saint Hitch.
@Jay Bee "deceitful religious nut" that sounds like the perfect way to describe _you_
We all do
I hope Hitch is wrong, then we can both buy him a drink when we all are in hell!
4:51 What’s most amazing is a friend of mine who is a physician and Catholic priest and worked for her said that many of the people who were in her “hospice” could have been cured with drugs that cost pennies / antibiotics, anti parasitic meds. She felt that no, their suffering made them closer to God. It truly was a cult of suffering / I think in the real world we call that masochism.
And that makes Mother Teresa a sadist.
@@maryclaremayo6157 You are not wrong
Mother Teresa was clearly a sadist who enjoyed the suffering of others.
A colossal scam.
Old school Catholicism was based mostly on suffering, but suffering of an existential or personal nature, not enabling the pain and suffering of Others.
Excellent work, Christopher, Penn and Teller.
The Missionary Position!? LMAO
I think that's the joke of the title :3
Let's not forget he called her “A thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf.”
+Eric van Bezooijen as well as referring to her as Mother Teresa the presumptive virgin
Cc
his first title was Holy Cow, but he decided to go with Missionary Position
Would have loved to buy Hitchen's a drink.
Well you still can. In spirit. (No pun intended.)
@MeshugenahScientist HA-HA
@ Steve Human
groupey.
i know right
and smoke a cig...
Me too.
Thank the gods of the Internet for UA-cam for preserving the genius of the Hitch for future generations.
He was a genius and would've been a fascinating guy to get sloshed and chain smoke with.
Christopher Hitchens...one of the very best of mankind.
When " useless as a cnt on a nun " is deeper than just a metaphore
If only we could make Christopher Hitchens a saint....The Saint of the enlightenment. The world needs his intelligence more than ever.
Poor women spent her life helping the unseen only to be rediculed by people who just hate her based on speculations and haters and mainly because her God was Jesus Christ.
@@mojomahojo8253 she made people suffer, to make them feel closer to God....yep, evil woman.
@@craigdavidson2278 how did she made them suffer?
@@mojomahojo8253 not administration of medicine for pain relief. Loved the power of prayers...
@@craigdavidson2278 She was living off of donations/alms for which she was even spit upon literally. She was begging for abandoned babies she picked from garbage dumps man.. Can you imagine? She fostered orphans picked from such conditions. Christopher hitchens is an ignorant. How many people have he helped convinced that there is no all loving being? Only humans for humans.
The more you discover about her the creepier she looks. Reminds me of the stereotypical authoritarian catholic school teacher nun who gets off on corporal punishment and psychologically manipulating children. And so many people out there who think because she's nun and worked in "charity" that makes her an altruistic sweet little old lady. Looking at all those dying people forced to sit in one spot all day with no visits from loved ones and not given even any expression of kindness just so they could die feeling suffering like Jesus dying on the cross makes me sick. Nobody deserves that kind of cruelty.
Not just that she was cruel, but used their suffering to elevate herself as some sort of loving icon. So evil.
Haaaaa, Christopher Hitchens is to the catholic church and Mother Teresa what Michael Moore is to a ham sandwich. Relentless...unstoppable, without fear.
That made me lose my shit.
Hitchens was a lazy gossip and slander journalist who tried to attract people to his articles by being controversial .. He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora
......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted.
At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂️Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs.
The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done.
Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
“Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana.
Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.”
The demand for medical marijuana
Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits.
“It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.”
Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids.
Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news
we need a big movie expose on this charlatan.
Oh yeah!
Dear Penn and Teller,
I know someone who'd been to India and met mother Teresa. He said the poverty was so severe if you gave a child a penny it was a death sentence. But the "hospice" that he saw was not the showplace that you saw. People were not laid out in the building but on the street. The lucky ones had some type of material between them and the filthy pavement. One man was writhing in pain and terror. She bent down and whispered in his ear, but it did not comfort him. My friend asked what did you tell him? This is a direct quote, "I told him, 'You suffer for Christ.'"
'Nuff said.
You guys are beacons of enjoyment and reason in a dark and dangerous time. Good on you.
Peace,
Sounds like BS to me
@@denverbritto5606 Sounds very plausible , She was a corrupt , cynical monster disguised as a saint.
@@Jasontvnd9 what's your evidence? Hitchen's book, which he didnt actually do any of his own research for but just relied on a couple of sources with their own axes to grind?
@@denverbritto5606 How about her own quote
"There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ's Passion. The world gains much from their suffering,"
That would seem to coincide with the same like of thinking that the OP's comment made.
There's also the 2013 Ottowa University study did that looked at Evidence Teresa did not prescribe pain medication.
There's even an overwhelming amount of reports that her ulterior motive was to try to convert non Christians into Christians.
Doctors who visited one of her 517 missions found unhygienic conditions with lack of food and complete refusal to provide any real painkillers.
Lower estimates on the donations to her cause are somewhere around $150m a year.
Most suspect closer to $200m a year , Certainly should be enough to fund the missionaries she had to a much higher standard than she was.
Bear in mind that she did not rent the missionaries they where paid for by the Church and the workers where all volunteers.
She is an evil women.
@@Jasontvnd9 Robin Fox based his critique of conditions in her hospices by comparing to large well-funded hospitals in the UK, clearly he had no idea about funding or regulations or health conditions in India, for which he was later criticised himself. The 2013 Ottawa study doesn't do any research either, the main source it cites is Hitchens himself. As for her comment, you can criticise her philosophy of acceptance of suffering while still acknowledging that her actions alleviated many peoples' suffering, at least a lot more than many others were doing in Calcutta 50 years ago. As for conversions, as long as they aren't coerced, what do you care why someone's motivated to help others. Maybe Hitchens had better motivations than her in your opinion, but how much did he help the suffering in Calcutta.
8:34 "Identify with the poor"
Isn't poverty a vow you take as a nun? You're supposed to commit to BEING poor, not just identify with those who are
Lol. You should see how nuns live now. In our town you'd have to be a 100 millionsire to afford their gigantic nursing home.
@@mp5249 The nuns in my parish live in an ordinary apartment and work with parishioners and the poor for little more than pocket money (they all share one 10+ year old car)
@@1234poppycat nuns in my town (4 convents) are having their estate (most expensive land in town) rebuilt at the cost of $800,000 per nun. Average home here sells for under 200K. 2 indoor pools. It's a freaking palace.
@@mp5249 Maybe you could give me details - where ?? .. I have never heard of a Convent with a swimming pool unless it is on the site of a School
Okay, since nowadays we're "identifying" as whoever we want to be(the Worlds Greatest Male Athlete as 'a Kaitlyn' Genderbender female, and, whiteyRachel Dolezal, pretended to be black to receive welfare fraud), I now "IDENTIFY" as GOF; the millionaire missionary. 😎👍
Can't believe I (and many, many others) were brainwashed to be forced to believe that this old bag was a saint. Good thing Hitchens pulled me out of the fog.
@Jazzkeyboardist1 Why does that matter?
Jazzkeyboardist1 Seems you really need to examine if your education has had any use. If you cannot see the difference between the two, look at sentence one.
But mr atheist was far from brilliant . Anyone with insight knew that Nun was no saint. But Catholic do tend to let the Vatican think for them. Catholics seem to think it takes the responsibility off themselves, for the lies they accept. I once too was one- Catholic that is. Until I just couldn’t gage on the
Blatant BS anymore. The Vatican teachings again Jesus Christ has to wake You up!! Or your soul is lost. Remember!! You Can think for yourself! Because your. Decisions will be the cursor where you will spend eternity. And when you say Jesus you can’t say but they lied to me I only believe with the pope said. That doesn’t cut it with The Master Jesus Christ.
Jazzkeyboardist1 - this guy trolls the comments on nearly every single Christopher Hitchens video on youtube. He seems completely insane.
Into the fire of hell
Kate Adie, foreign correspondent for the BBC, also criticies MT in her autobiography. Speaks of the cruelty and abuse in her homes/hospitals.
"There's no tooth fairy, either." Preach, brother!
No tooth fairy? Then where did that quarter come from? Not leprechauns, they’re extinct.
so who was that hairy guy that came into my bedroom every time i lost a tooth?
Probably a big bear
@@allenbrooks8290 It probably came from Joe.
Christopher Hitchens after 5 scotches, still smarter than any MT apologist.
That would be 5 twixers of scotch, not ounces ;D
Brad Smith You're confusing notbeing willing to tell what the truth is with not being able to. In other words you're confusing evil with stupidity.
Michael Price Mother Teresa was an evil, lying piece of shit. Is that clearer?
Unfortunately it does not shock me that Atheists will go to any lengths to try to ruin the reputation of Mother Teresa & that they will have plenty of gullible atheists believing them. Hitchens was good with the one liners but usually had nothing to back it up, only his sycophants would think it smart because they were just having their prejudices confirmed with his opinion.
@@1234poppycat what do you mean? Everything said in the video was true, Why don't you agree? Because you assumed she was a better person? Fucking dummies and their opinions.
Love this guy. He tells it like it is.
MT did nothing to reduce or alleviate poverty.
According to Hitchens, she even denied painkillers, because of her obsession with suffering…
mother teresa should have been forced to receive the exact same care she was providing for all those poor people she left dying miserably in her facilities instead of enjoying the best medicine that all of her ill gotten money could buy.
If you're not an atheist, she's in hell. If not then she's nothing more than worm food.
I said that to a religious person one time. He said "she didn't have a say anymore, people responsible for her decided to take her to the best hospitals". I just said "she didn't spend any money on the suffering people to at least ease the suffering, and she could've requested ahead of time to not be taken away. You know practice what you preach."
that is just stupid Hitchens logic .. THINK Are you saying anyone who substantially helps the poor in a poor country should be banned from getting help/ hospital treatment in the West ??
@@1234poppycat Look up the word hypocrisy. Have someone read the definition to you. It will shed some light on your religion. You may not see the light with your head up your ass, but try anyway.
@@davidohara7669 So you can not counter logically and so satisfy yourself with insults. So sad.
I remember how angry I got when I found out that Mother Teresa was not interested in curing and rehabilitating the seriously ill - rather she wanted to share in their suffering! She was a fraud and Hitch was right to criticize her.
I went to a papish school and they tried to teach me mother tersea that she all good and she could not have done anything wrong. It was only when I was older that I found out about her the truth
Hitchens rarely took the risk of using evidence to back up his opinion on Mother Teresa... I wish his sycophantic supporters delved into thinking for themselves ... When Mother Teresa was still alive a volunteer gave a presentation at my Church She described -- first hand having worked in Calcutta for over a year -- that the nuns were the most dedicated selfless and wonderful people she had ever come across. That they were totally devoted to the sick and dying worked over 70 hours a week with the poor ( in addition to prayers mass etc) The pictures you see are when the nuns stood back for five minutes so they did not appear on the filming and it looked like the sick were just left there. Volunteer (mostly ) Hindu (occasionally some Catholic doctors from the West) attend daily and administer what medicines they are allowed to by the State. As of 2013 across India it was estimated only 2% had proper palliative care when dying - because the State refuses to allow the medicines / puts huge administrative costs and hurdles in place. Even today outside wealthy homes with air conditioning most Indians sleep on a mattress on the floor - more preferable than on a bed cos it is a bit cooler Hitchens only convinces people who do not have detailed info. I have spent time explaining this because I have researched and taken an interest over decades and realise in your dedication to Hitchens you will just dismiss this out of hand.
Well start being angry as you find out you were lied to !!! Mother Teresa cared for the poorest of the poor and it was not ill people but terminally ill & it was the Indian government who held back pallative care painkilling drugs until 2017 ( Search Indian "Quora " Magazine) when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
@@1234poppycat too long, didn’t read
@@1234poppycatSo a cultist volunteer came and presented at your local cult branch? Compelling!
Irony is that virtually every atheist is a better Christian, according to Jesus' words, than any of the people among the gang of thugs trying to force "Christianity" down people's throats.
Preach it!
Where did jesus say that?
This made me come out to my mom. Christians were the 1st athiests.
@@scottcross2765 you're nuts
@zeddy mcdog youre hilarious.
Concerning Hitchens: The Truth May Be An Offence, But It Is No Sin...
Penn is the best at saying the word "fucking"
+ladsham I'd like to see a discussion between Penn and Samuel L. Jackson.
+Neil Mcintosh you atheists have found your own level !!
+AJA Deacon -- Thank you.
+violacrb -hahaha good one!
+AJA Deacon
Lots of priests fuck kids.
penn and teller taught me about Christopher hitchens... thank you guys!
Hitchens should have been the canonized one... I love that bastard! : /
Treavor Mcgraw I was kidding, Hitchens is a smart ass
LOL! So true, Sandor Valdes!
are u sure about him being a bastard?
He was a stuck up arrogant prig.
@@Kitiwake what is one falsehood that hitchens has said?
Christopher Hitchens is absolutely correct. Sister Nirmala, Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, stated that before she died Mother Teresa told her, '' The poor should remain poor, without them we will lose our jobs.''
Absolutely sick!
I find this horrific. I had heard rumours of this years ago. I wish Hitchens was still around, but good on him for making this known.
Do you actually have any proof or do you always believe rumours.....not being a catholic I wouldn't necessarily trust everything they say or do but I certainly would not hold Hitchens up as the arbiter of truth.
Praying for you regardless
Gilly wife of Mark
@@markmooney5662 and I will fart for you .. apparently farts in someone’s intention actually works compared to preying... and they are natural as well.
And isn’t that funny that you asking for evidence for something ... but you don’t need any evidence for god to believe... lol
@@Dycdom
So just because someone believes in the fundamental nature of mind and consciousness/theism that means they can’t expect evidence when someone is accused of a crime. ? Seems a bit irrational and fanatical.
Equally Hitchens claims are very suspect because nurses, never mind nuns, can’t even prescribe opioids only a doctor can it’s a controlled class A drug which is why opioids are locked up in a safe on the wards and counted with two qualified nurses at the end of a shift to ensure they the haven’t been stolen. If there is any morphine missing we are legally accountable and have to contact the police. Please also explain how even if Mother Teresa could prescribe drugs for severe pain she would be able to do so when
No 1. The first oral morphine tablets (the essential drug of palliative medicine) only arrived in India in 1988 under heavy regulations.
No 2. Many of the nuns were not properly trained nurses and non of the nurses in the main hospitals in India and in the first world were adequately trained to give strong pain killers as the (WHO) The World Health Organisation didn’t develop an effective algorithm (analgesic ladder) for managing dangerous drugs such as opioids safely until 1986.
No 3. When opioids were strictly controlled in all the hospitals in India and opioids were rarely used as it was an endemic problem. In response to Dr Fox Hitchens main source of criticism of Mother Teresa three prominent palliative care professionals, Dr. David Jeffrey, Dr. Joseph O'Neill and Ms. Gilly Burn, founder of Cancer Relief India, responded to Fox on the Lancet.They note three main difficulties with respect to pain control in India: "1) lack of education of doctors and nurses, 2) few drugs, and 3) very strict state government legislation, which prohibits the use of strong analgesics even to patients dying of cancer", with about "half a million cases of unrelieved cancer pain in India” How convenient of Hitchens to ignore the problems that were wide spread across India that were identified by three top experts in a top medical journal such as the Lancet.
To single out Mother Teresa's hospice is unfair and disingenuous when it was an issue not just for hospices, but hospitals in India and in first world hospitals too. I can supply references for this if needed.
No 4. Dr Fox who Hitchens uses as his main source of reference for criticising mother Teresa’s hospice, Dr Fox himself notes that weak analgesics (like acetaminophen) were used to alleviate pain; what was lacking were strong analgesics like morphine. I wonder why Hitchens didn’t mention this ?
No 5. Nevertheless, since the dangers regarding morphine weren’t as well known and strict prior to the WHO guidance in 1986 on safe and effective usage of opioids , the Charity was able to use stronger painkillers like morphine and codeine injections at least occasionally under prescription at their homes, as witnesses have described.
6. Administration of strong pain killers such as morphine is very dangerous and takes a lot of nursing skill to get the right titration depending on age, body size and underlying pathology and health conditions. It takes a great deal of experience and expertise to administer and monitor without killing the patient. You have to go on a course even after your nurse training to be able to administer Iv morphine/opioids etc This would be a logistical nightmare with limited healthcare professionals and volunteers in a hospice with hundreds of people in severe pain. Are you suggesting that nuns should have acquired and prescribed an highly regulated class A drug themselves with out the appropriate skills required to administer and monitor the side effects without killing the patient or making their pain even worse by causing severe nausea or respiratory depression. Please provide references for your sources! I’ll wait!!
No 7. One of the Dr fox references Hitchens uses he conveniently doesn’t mention the fact that Dr Fox himself said the hospice was clean and people were well cared for. Also Dr Fox never actually stated Mother Teresa refused to give painkillers. So where is the evidence because there’s good evidence why the pain killers weren’t opioids which is the most effective treatment for severe but it was restricted in India and can kill the patient if you’re not an health card professional who’s been appropriately trained to give opioids and manage the side effects such as respiratory depression ?
No 8. The remarkable thing about Hell’s Angel is that it purports to defend the poor against Mother Teresa’s supposed exploitation of them, while never actually interviewing any on screen. Not a single person cared for by the Missionaries speaks on camera. Was this because they had a far higher opinion of Blessed Teresa than Hitchens would permit in his film?
Avoiding the people at the heart of Teresa’s ministry, Hitchens posed for the camera and let roll a series of ad hominem attacks and unsubstantiated accusations, as uninformed as they were cruel. He called Muggeridge one of the most acclaimed journalists of the twentieth century an “old fraud and mountebank,” mocked his belief in the supernatural, and even referred to Mother Teresa as a “presumable virgin.”
She was denounced for meeting with unsavory politicians and businessmen, in order to assist the poor, but ironically, it is Hitchens who used the film to promote Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a notorious ex-priest whose record as Haiti’s President was symbolized by corruption and abuse. Of Teresa’s travels abroad, Hitchens declared: “She may or may not comfort the afflicted, but she has certainly never been known to afflict the comfortable”-but the documentary shows her doing exactly that, decrying abortion in front of affluent pro-choice audiences.
@@Dycdom
Please provide evidence and citations but don’t bother looking for any in Hitchens book as he didn’t even provide an appendix. ❤️
@@Dycdom
It’s so ironic to see militant atheists resorting to insults, witch hunts and ad hominem attacks because you’ve no evidence. The irony is that even a lot atheists agree with us.
References and citations please this is a myth and even Hitchens admitted it was just sensationalism. There’s nothing Earth shattering about finding out that a nun who lived through WW2 doesn’t agree with abortion, contraception and takes a stoic approach to discomfort and material wealth.
Even non religious people took a stoic and pragmatic approach to suffering during WW2 it was a cultural norm and a coping mechanism that lingered afterwards. Should we label our grandparents a evil for trying to find coping mechanisms during period of time when pain control was very poor and mental health services were Zero. These are reviews of Hitchens book about mother Teresa (The Missionary Position) from atheists who read the book. Of course you will have to take it in good faith and on face value like Hitchens did with his so called witnesses, half truths and accounts that these reviews are reliable sources.
“As an atheist and a person who insists on following logical principles, I'm extremely disappointed with this book. The fact that it's less than 100 pages of large print with no appendix of citable sources says a lot about the substance of this book, or lack thereof. The language is extremely leading, and reading this book gave me the same feeling of revulsion I got watching the logic-free documentary Vaxxed. Hitchens will weirdly focus on one thing and then go on for pages as if it's some sort of damning evidence. For instance, the book starts off talking about a photo that exists of MT with Michele Duvalier. And the Duvaliers are bad. And there she is, right there in the photo with one of them. And they're holding hands and looking at each other. Right there in that photo. With the bad woman. And she's smiling. And she doesn't deny it. And therefore MT is a horrible person, the worst kind of person, and it's totally obvious. He goes on for pages with stuff like this, and it's a very tedious read. He also weirdly makes her out to be horrible and fanatical because she takes Christian stances, like being anti-abortion. Really? The missionary Christian nun buys into the Church's position on abortion? Shocking. Or not. It's also apparently her fault that people claim that she performed miracles that she never once claimed to have performed. I mean, he's bashing her because the Church sainted her and he thinks her miracles were a sham. Yet, he's an atheist, which means that he thinks all miracles and saints are a sham. Why is MT somehow worse than the rest? He's also fixated on her forgiving people, questioning by whose authority she forgives, and what right does she have to forgive, and no one asked her for forgiveness. As if each of us doesn't have the right to forgive others for the slights and errors we perceive in them. The only semi-valid points Hitchens makes are that she might have spent the money that was donated to her in a more constructive way, and that she took money that maybe she shouldn't have taken, or that she should have returned. But he doesn't even do a good job validating those positions. For instance, maybe she could have built a hospital for the poor as he points out, but her mission was giving comfort to the dying, not curing the sick. All in all this book was a waste of time. It's nothing more than a lame attempt to tarnish another person, and for no obviously valid reason. It's a takedown for the sake of takedown, and it's utterly unconvincing.”
“As an atheist reader, I was expecting Hitchens to expose Mother Teresa as some sort of phony based on what I heard about this book. Instead, he merely speculates about her alleged intentions and smears her with basically no supporting evidence whatsoever. I expected more from Hitchens, who holds himself out as a provider of truth. This book was completely pointless - it told me nothing about Mother Theresa other than that Christopher Hitchens has a baseless hunch that she wasn't as great a person as many people believe her to be.”
“It appeared to me that Hitchens had already formulated his opinion of this nun who spent her whole life helping the poor and sick, then used examples and quotes out of context to support this. His inability to accept that help and dedication even when sometimes misguided adds up to infinitely more than the contribution of a literary critic who appears to be impressed by little more than his arrogant estimation of his own intelligence.”
“This is a mean spirited book typical of a mean spirited writer”
“This is a mean spirited book typical of a mean spirited writer who detested religion and charity.
Hitchens was a man who always considered himself absolutely right on every subject despite having moved politically from the extreme left to the extreme right and physically by moving from Britain to the United States. He abandoned England in a similar manner to the Cambridge spies, that is gravitating to a perceived larger more influential country or ideology and despising the land of their birth.
The book is sloppily researched and full of self conceit on the part of the writer. Opinions are treated as fact and lies taken on face value
We have all come across people like Hitchens in our lives. They are the sort who stand outside the tough truths of life sneering at those who attempt to help alleviate suffering or troubles and who avoid getting involved apart from copiously criticising workers trying to get the job done.The small bully egging on the large bully from a safe distance.
Whether Mother Theresa of Calcutta is a saint is beyond my judgement. She was a fallible human being who dd her best under extreme circumstances and deserves credit for this not a verbal onslaught from a man who never raised a finger to help others and deserves to be swiftly forgotten”.
“Devoid of substance”
"..dead people do not cure living people of disease, it doesn't happen"... its amazing that Hitchens has to point this out to anyone.
Hitch loves dead people . That’s why he supported that filthy war in Iraq .
I love this show so much this should still be on TV.
Mother Theresa had a 15 year old boy in her establishment who had a kidney problem that could have been cured with surgery. But she would not let him be taken to any hospital as she didn't want to pay for the surgery.......the boy was suffering and left to die when he could have been cured. I have suffered the pain of kidney problems and I was in agony, but I was given Fentanyl and morphine for the pain and I had ex rays and scans in the hospital, It was kidney stones and I passed them after 4 days and the pain ended.
I love Christopher Hitchens, miss him so much
Hitchens was a lazy gossip and slander journalist who tried to attract people to his articles by being controversial .. He claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora
......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted.
At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂️Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs.
The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done.
Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
“Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana.
Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.”
The demand for medical marijuana
Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits.
“It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.”
Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids.
Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news
It's not faith that is detrimental it is faith in an authority outside of ourselves. Thanks for bringing this to light about Mother T.
This segment was my introduction to Hitch in 2010, which eventually lead me to become an atheist after my evangelical church failed me miserably some years later. True, he did allow some omissions in his book "God is not great", but all in all the breath of his knowledge was astonishing. I should know, I did a fan translation of it some years before the official edition and I am myself pretty well-read.
I do not miss him, because I think he did all he could do in the time he had left. There is no loss. Some people die as a direct consequence of their lifestyle and to wish for Hitchens to not smoke or drink himslef silly or Freddy Mercury not to contract AIDS means to reinvented their charcter and lifestyle into something completely different. As far as the afterlife of a person consists of his intellectual and genetic legacy, he is still pretty much alive to me. Only ten years ago, while he was alive, it looked like Islam would never come into question and Hitchens mentioned how textual criticism of the Q'ran is in its infancy. Muslims torched embassies and burned books. Now they have to think hard and develop all kinds of mental gymnastics to respond to growing criticism of their religion. This is just one of the many ways he contributed to a brighter world. In turn, this prompted many people to pick up the torch and influence many more. So he has pretty much did what needed to be done and secured his legacy.
I hope I will be alive in 50 years to look back at this moment of time and remember how good we got it and how far we have gotten because of him and his peers.
Had he survived, he would have been a brighter (alcochol-fueled ;) light in an increasingly brighter and expanding web of enlightened individuals. It is not nececassrily darker now because he is not with us - IMPO.
Losing him is a major loss to me. And I miss him like hell. I'm glad I feel this way. For me, it means he means that much to me. I'm okay with this feeling.
Hitchens rarely took the risk of using evidence to back up his opinion on Mother Teresa... I wish his sycophantic supporters delved into thinking for themselves ... When Mother Teresa was still alive a volunteer gave a presentation at my Church She described -- first hand having worked in Calcutta for over a year -- that the nuns were the most dedicated selfless and wonderful people she had ever come across. That they were totally devoted to the sick and dying worked over 70 hours a week with the poor ( in addition to prayers mass etc) The pictures you see are when the nuns stood back for five minutes so they did not appear on the filming and it looked like the sick were just left there. Volunteer (mostly ) Hindu (occasionally some Catholic doctors from the West) attend daily and administer what medicines they are allowed to by the State. As of 2013 across India it was estimated only 2% had proper palliative care when dying - because the State refuses to allow the medicines / puts huge administrative costs and hurdles in place. Even today outside wealthy homes with air conditioning most Indians sleep on a mattress on the floor - more preferable than on a bed cos it is a bit cooler Hitchens only convinces people who do not have detailed info. I have spent time explaining this because I have researched and taken an interest over decades and realise in your dedication to Hitchens you will just dismiss this out of hand.
@@1234poppycat This is how you clarify things on the Internet - factually and respectfully. Thank you for expanding my view.
@@vasilstanev4234 than you for having an open mind and your response
@@SandraLovesSun your views in him seem cultish.
I knew Penn was a great man but I never knew how awesomely savage he is 👍 👏
It shocks me at how many people will continue to believe Mother Teresa is a 'good person'.
Matthew Dolby People can,t live without there illusions.and she was very cunning.we can only be thankful she didn,t end up in charge of a country.
+tamabo “outside time” yeahhh Muhammed Ali was a great guy
+tamabo “outside time” what bullshit! And how many people dies for the false prophet?
***** yes I suppose there wasn't much humour in your early life
Many people still believe that a naked Jew floated up to space after he died. So people will believe anything
8:00 "Hopefully this will cover my soul for talking shit about Mother Teresa" haha brilliant
I miss this show! It helped me become more of a skeptic of everyday life!
You still have a way to go.... now be smart and a sceptic of Hitchens .. Hitchens rarely took the risk of using evidence to back up his opinion on Mother Teresa... I wish his sycophantic supporters delved into thinking for themselves ... When Mother Teresa was still alive a volunteer gave a presentation at my Church She described -- first hand having worked in Calcutta for over a year -- that the nuns were the most dedicated selfless and wonderful people she had ever come across. That they were totally devoted to the sick and dying worked over 70 hours a week with the poor ( in addition to prayers mass etc) The pictures you see are when the nuns stood back for five minutes so they did not appear on the filming and it looked like the sick were just left there. Volunteer (mostly ) Hindu (occasionally some Catholic doctors from the West) attend daily and administer what medicines they are allowed to by the State. As of 2013 across India it was estimated only 2% had proper palliative care when dying - because the State refuses to allow the medicines / puts huge administrative costs and hurdles in place. Even today outside wealthy homes with air conditioning most Indians sleep on a mattress on the floor - more preferable than on a bed cos it is a bit cooler Hitchens only convinces people who do not have detailed info. I have spent time explaining this because I have researched and taken an interest over decades and realise in your dedication to Hitchens you will just dismiss this out of hand.
Faith is the death of the human mind.
Good work P & T
Hitchens was and still is a legend.!
A legend that supported war ! Then was critical of others . Typical hypocrite .
@@RocketKirchner
Even legends aren't perfect.
I didn't agree with Hitchens' stance on the Iraq war either but you must agree there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein was a monster that needed to be removed from his position of power one way or another, sooner or later, by his own people (unlikely) or by international force.
So you can't compare his support of the removal of an evil dictator to his criticism of the actions of corrupt and evil people and organisations throughout history like the Catholic church and Mother Teresa, and then call him a hypocrite. He was actually being consistent in his views.
A good friend tried tell me about M.T. and Hitchen's exposing her, way back in the mid nineties. I'm just now getting what he meant, thanks to UA-cam.
Even Teller couldn't keep his silence in this one!
I can tell in one part of the clip that Hitch is getting tanked, and I STILL trust what he says over anything the church guy claims.
Obviously the clip was edited to present one side. Saying Mother Teresa is a good person does not sell books. Hitchens claimed here that Mother Teresa could have administered painkilling drugs (in the 1970's) but choose not to .... (amongst his other lies) You can see from this article taken from the Indian "Quartz " website that in 2017 they only administer it correctly for 2% of the population in state hospitals and nothing outside.. By Priyanka Vora
......August 7, 2017 Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi suggested legalising marijuana for medical purposes at a meeting of a group of ministers examining the draft cabinet note on the National Policy for Drug Demand Reduction earlier this last week. However, several doctors working in palliative care say that they would rather see the government ensure a better supply of opioid drugs, the medical use of which is already permitted.
At present, doctors in India are allowed to prescribe six types of opioid drugs known to alleviate pain. However, they say that only three of the six drugs-morphine, methadone, and fentanyl-are available at present in India. 🤦♂️Doctors estimate that only 2% of those who need palliative drugs actually get them. The rest try to battle excruciating pain. “What we need is to improve the access to (opioid) drugs first which are already available,” said Mary Ann Muckaden, professor and head, department of palliative medicine, at Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai.
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, allowed limited access to opioid drugs even for medical use. A hospital would need five different licences each from a different authorities to be able to procure and store opioids. However, an amendment to the Act in 2014 allowed procurement and storage under a single licence, making it easier for doctors to prescribe these drugs.
The problem, according to Muckaden and her colleagues, is that fewer hospitals are willing to procure, store, and dispense morphine and other opioids even though their use is permitted for pain management, especially in cancer patients. This is because hospitals need to keep detailed records of opioid procurement and use, increasing the amount of paperwork to be done.
Moreover, pain management is not a part of the medical curriculum which has resulted in the poor awareness about opioid drugs in the medical community, according to Sushma Bhatnagar, professor and head of the department of onco-anaesthesia, pain and palliative care, at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
“Most doctors and nurses do not know enough about these drugs,” said Bhatnagar, who feels that India is not ready to legalise marijuana.
Naveen Salins, editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care and associate professor at Tata Memorial Centre, said that talking about legalising medical marijuana was “like talking about euthanasia when you are not able to provide palliative care.”
The demand for medical marijuana
Though illegal, cancer patients in several parts of India confess to have consumed non-processed marijuana, said Salins, who used to practice medicine in Australia, where the use of medical marijuana is legal. He has prescribed synthesised marijuana drugs to patients and observed their benefits.
“It is proved that marijuana can help in stimulating appetite and control nausea,” he said, cautioning that the natural form of marijuana can have undesirable side effects because of the psychoactive compounds present in it. “Allowing people to consume it in its natural form could be dangerous.”
Sameer Kaul, a surgical oncologist who runs the non-profit organisaiton Breast Cancer Patients Benefit Foundation, thinks that permitting the use of medical marijuana can be a game changer in oncology. Kaul is against the use of opioids such as morphine. “Marijuana is a far safer and subtle form of agent which can help control pain,” he said, referring to the fewer side-effects and lower addictive capacity of marijuana as compared to opioids.
Sourab Agarwal is the founder of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India in Bhubaneswar, which has applied for permission to conduct a study using cannabis to reduce the side-effects of cancers ........... NOTHING BEATS DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH -- SO SAD TO SEE SO MANY OF HITCHENS SUPPORTERS BLINDLY FOLLOWING HIS LIES thinking arr we have the new truth no the truth is that Hitchens peddled fake news
@@1234poppycat wow look at all these people rushing to agree with you
@@LGRW313 I know anti - Christians are the ones to read / listen from this site ... I just throw in some evidence and truth to contrast to the fiction of Pen and Hitchens 😊😊
@@1234poppycat, she was a crook!
@@ionelscutaru8687 You have no evidence for your comment
Here in India she was one of the very few people to receive a state funeral.... The Congress really messed up our history books. She is still seen as a great person by many people in India.
1st time I've ever heard Teller speak :)
Mama T is a prime example of how we are told and shown the polar opposite of the truth.
"Faith is the surrender of the mind.." A.H. . Damn it man thanks for a good run. The torch will be kept lit.
Adolf Hitler said that?
@@Floxxoror & C isnt even near A on the keyboard....
@Juan Perez DUNNO
@Jazzkeyboardist1 you love Chrissy Hitchens 😍😍😍😍😍
@Jazzkeyboardist1 "of course atheists do not give money to charity"
Another lie. The secular states give far more than the religious countries. England and Germany alone give more than USA.
Sweden has one of the highest support per capita in the world, if not the highest.
And we know perfectly well what would happen if atheist organizations would come to some places on earth, they would be killed by the religious.
I think ''poison dwarf'' was a good description of her.🤣
And she got world class healthcare compared to her tortured followers.
@Colin Sheehan, maybe look into other accounts of her history. Try Christopher Hitchens or someone else who isn’t tied into the Christian agenda.
@Colin Sheehan They absolutely were not doing the best they could. If they were, they would have used the hundreds of millions of dollars they took in to actually help the poor by hiring doctors and nurses and having humane living conditions. Instead, they gave the vast majority of the money to the Catholic church and used the small fraction of what was left over to put up shanty-like pseudo-hospitals without qualified people running it.
"Faith is the surrender of the mind".
Just the fact that he wrote a book about her called the "missionary position".....hitchens was a boss.
Don't forget Theresa also told the people of Africa that their poverty was "God's plan". I hope one day all religious institutions are demanded to pay taxes as any criminal organizations
I'm optimistic that this will happen, at least in secular democracies, because the younger generations ate increasingly not affiliated with organise religion.
On the news this morning Mother Teresa has been made a saint a bloody Saint !
its an insult to common sense
+faunbudweis to humanity!
+Pixel Pusher same as the the nazi crimes
well there is nothing surprising about that because all christian saints are fake and evil!!
no just no real.
It would be a miracle if we found a new Christoher Hitchens.
Yup, if that happened I'd believe in God
Gareth Stangroom That would be counterproductive ! And the replacement of The Hitch would've to start all over again 🙃
Brad Hartliep has been exposing the lies and bullshit of Religion and Politics for 42 years ..
Stephen Fry is good on religion. He once partnered with Hitch and debated the catholic church and wiped the floor with them . Miss the Hitch 🥃
Sam Harris is the best we have
8:43 - "She must've been so enlightened she glowed in the dark". That's a brilliant joke.
For those who don't know, a camera crew in the 70s went to film her at the Home for the Dying (which is very dark on account of it being so grim). When returning to the UK they didn't expect to get much footage because of the lighting, but they were using a newly created film by Kodak that made the footage really bright in comparison to what they had been using. When they watched the footage, they were with Malcolm Muggeridge, a fanatic Cristian who as I recall was involved with the production. As the crew were commenting on the lighting, Muggeridge burst out loud "It's divine light!", thinking the reason the footage was so bright was because Mother Theresa was emitting divine light like Christ.
The next day, the crew got hundreds of calls from journalists asking about the "miracle of Mother Theresa" because Malcolm Muggeridge told everyone about it and they all wanted to believe it. I don't remember, but I believe this was considered a miracle by the church, or something like it. It's all in Christopher Hitchens documentary about her.
this story is a absolutely true. I saw an interview with the director
What an old ugly devil 👿.
I saw an interview with Malcolm Muggeridge in which he stated there was a power failure during filming but she emitted enough light for them to continue.
Its so great we live in a time when people can speak out about so many frauds! More power to them!
I've seen plenty of Hitch before but was blown away by Penn's absolutely savage takedowns throughout this clip 👌
She made millions and put none of it into a hospital or healing conditions. You know she was comfortable.
The church takes money from the poor all the time
If they didn't, they wouldn't exist. The church is an organization that profits off of people's ignorance, willful or not. They ensure future earnings by sheltering children. Only way I got out was by joining the military and getting shipped around to various places where I got exposed to other ideas that helped me see how bogus religion is.
My local church has a collection every mass, including two collections on Sunday. This is to fix a leak in the church roof and install a new heating system.
Neither of these things have been sorted, but the priest is driving around in a brand new BMW. Make of that what you will.
@@attackpatterndelta8949 my friend is a treasurer at her church. they have a pastor that just retired. Per the contract of his services, they gave him a house but he now wants a bonus after he retired and he wants his money reimbursed that he gifted the church when he started. mind you, the church cant even put new tires on the church van had to scrape tooth and nail to get a new kitchen so they could feed the homeless.
I remember, I used to pass out the plate where we collected their spare dollars. I grew up in a poor neighborhood. It's not a surprise I am no longer catholic.
@@andrewpierce1588 last time I had reason to be in a church, I looked at the collection plate, and for the first time realised that what I was truly seeing at was, essentially, a silver begging bowl with a velvet cushion in it.
What's wrong with this picture?
She's drinking tea with Jimmy Savile now!
"Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason. It's the surrender of the only thing that make us different from other mammals". Whoa... that alone's worth the price of admission.
People have faith in Darwinism and experts without knowledge
@@mrshankerbillletmein491 there's no faith involved in the theory of evolution. it's explained in full. no faith required
@@mrshankerbillletmein491 Thats some badshit poor logic right there. How can an expert be without knowledge in the first place? Do you even know what the word expert means?
I honestly feel like you could be one of those people who have no to very little insight to how basic science actually works
@@mrshankerbillletmein491 Darwinism is based on factual evidence e.g. the fossil record. Science continues to prove him correct on most of his work. As someone who deals in hard evidence I find it hard to believe that some holy person who has been dead for five years has two miracles attributed to them and then becomes a saint.
Faith isn't the surrender of the mind or abandonment of reason. The word "faith", at least in the Bible and therefore how most Christians define it, is synonymous with "trust". What you have your faith in is what you trust in, and while it is certainly true that someone can put their trust in foolish things, it is equally possible to trust in sound and reasonable things. Faith qua faith is neither good nor bad. It entirely depends on what you have your faith *IN* as to whether you are wise or stupid for having that faith.
In the Bible, God actually tells us, "Come let us reason together" (Isaiah 1:18). Anyone who is telling you to turn off your brain and "just believe" is not practicing the actual religion as prescribed by Scripture. Those Christians who, like me, enjoy reasoning, rationality, and logic, are just as annoyed by the nutcases who pretend they can believe anything they want and just SAY it's the same faith. In fact, Atheists who complain about those kind of religious charlatans actually have allies with those of us who believe. We just wish atheists would stop acting like the fraudulent people they point at actually represent all believers, when the reality is that if the surveys are to be believed, the vast majority of Americans believe in God and yet only a handful fit the stereotypical "fundamentalist" believer used as a foil by folks like Hitchens. Indeed, to reverse the analogy, it would be like Christians pretending that all atheists are versions of Stalin or Mao, who each murdered millions of people and were ardently anti-religious.
"Hitchens is to the Catholic Church as Michael Moore is to a ham sandwich"
fucking gold
when you analyse you find a lot of opinion and uncorroborated assertions and a lot of good sounding catch phrases such as "she was not a friend of the poor but a friend of poverty" you could say that about anyone who helps the poor or refugees .... Faith on the other hand inspires people to put others first to help the poor .... It is no coincidence that the largest charity in the World is the Catholic Church and the largest charity in monitory terms is the Bill Gates foundation run by Bill and Millinder Gates -- when asked why she was the prime mover in giving so much of their wealth to help the poor she cited that she was " a devout Catholic "
9:32 reminds me of the old 70s or 80s SNL weekend update bit with Father Guido Sarducci complaining about number of miracles required for sainthood and how one of his competitors' miracles was a card trick
The amount of money she collected for charity is more than enough to save all the poor in india at that time... Where is it?. Not even the refugees in her hospital got a decent food and medicine for atleast a day.
As an indian i am ashamed to say she got nobel for peace.
As an Indian you should be more ashamed that your government did less for the poor than Mother Teresa otherwise they would have gone to Indian government care!! She had 500 centres around the World say 100 in each centre 50 000 at $2 a day that is $100 000 = $1 million every 10 days