Best christian missionary books according to redditors
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We found 155 Reddit comments discussing the best christian missionary books. We ranked the 60 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Hitchens wrote a wonderful book exposing many of these hypocrisies as well. The article mentions the documentary (available on YouTube), but I did't see the book referenced.
Well, there's this about Mother Theresa if you're truly interested.
It was the late Christopher Hitchens who first taught me about the inhumanity of Mother Teresa, though I'd watched a lot of clips of his I haven't read his book, The Missionary Position.
What does it mean to be a wretched person? Maybe it means to be someone who feels no greater joy than watching another suffer unto death, just to feel the satisfaction of being there, when in all their desperation and without basic respite, accepting your religion on their deathbed.
By her own accounts she watched nearly 30,000 people come through her doors, and with broken empathy managed to convince them that their suffering only brought them closer to god. I'd like to know how anyone came to the conclusion that this woman was worthy more than anybody else of earning a Nobel peace prize.
Hitchens did a book about her too if anyone is interested.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Missionary-Position-Mother-Practice/dp/1455523003
I also recommend the book, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens.
Hitchens is the one who actually played the literal Devils Advocate for the Vatican, providing evidence and argument against the sainthood of this woman.
Edit: Here's an article by him on the same subject.
There's a way, sort of, J.R.R.Tolkien has left all his linguistic writings on the Elvish Languages in 7 big boxes, (thousands of pages per box) and Christopher Tolkien has later referred to them naming as Quenya A, B, up to Quenya G, for they can be specifically identified. Yes, not a couple of boxes, but even 7, my mellyn (PE: 22, p. 141).
Be aware, though, that if you do not have a particular background, these pages will be likely not understandable, sadly...
Regarding what you can hear/read online:
In real life it is simple. If you do not follow the rules of English grammar you are not writing or speaking in English. If you don't follow Tolkien's rules you are not writing his elf! Anyone who visits the websites dedicated to Elvish languages (Eldalie, Quenya.101, Ardalambion, etc.) or reads the books dedicated to them (those of David Salo, Ruth S. Noel, Pesch, Comastri, etc.) trying to learn Quenya or Sindarin, will be baffled by the array of many different and conflicting grammar rules. These sites and books never agree with each other. Why?
Because every author has invented his own rules.
We read from many writers (Drout, Pesch) and on the net that there are many “neo-elvish” languages: the neo-quenya and neo-sindarin. But it is not correct, neo-elvish languages do not exist or rather are not languages. Writing: Something wure mi expectatione [sic] does not mean that whoever wrote it is the creator of a neo-english language, the same with: Alaghioru saranno alboro dormirenene [sic] won’t make you the creator of a new neo-italian language. To create a neo-language one must first of all be a linguist, know the rules of a Tolkien elven language well and from there build a new elven language. What a job! Those who build what they call neo-Sindarin and neo-quenya only rarely mention Tolkien's grammars and almost never explain what they do (for example, I change this thing written by Tolkien, because I invented a certain new rule). What they build are not languages. They distort the little of what they understand about Tolkien's logopoeia at will.
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Is a great book by - Christopher Hitchens
An interesting thing about Christopher Hitchens' book on Mother Teresa, The Missionary Position, is that the criticisms about it are not about the content. The content is too well documented for critics to attack. The criticsms are about Hitchens himself, or straw man arguments like the one shown by OP.
Christopher Hitchens book, The Missionary Position.
https://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003
Here and here.
i grew up evangelical and one of my friends from christian school became a missionary and then wrote a book about how misguided the whole thing was
> Mother Teresa was a humanitarian, so your statement is obviously nothing but a troll.
Christopher Hitchens will be glad to explain to you why she was such a terrible person. He also wrote an entire book on it if you are really interested
I'm kind of surprised you aren't aware of the plentiful evidence of what an awful shit she was. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the conclusions, referring to it hardly makes one a troll. It's a well supported argument offered by one of the most famous modern atheists and many others.
> A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word."
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
I will say that it'll be harder to find info on this because most organizations working there aren't necessarily going to share, at risk of being kicked out.
Edit: Dug out an old paper with extra citations for ya:
I would recommend Christopher Hitchens Book The Missionary Position
As most people understandably have a favourable opinion of her and don't want to believe an Opindia article. Here, copied from my reply to another comment:
Hells Angel (Mother Teresa) - Christopher Hitchens
Watch this documentary. He also wrote a book on her. She was a nun and it didn't matter if the people in her Home of the dying received good hospice care, painkillers, etc. She just wanted to save their souls. A significant number of them could have lived if they received normal treatment. I don't believe that she had malicious intentions but she was a Christian fundamentalist and just wanted to expedite her patients' journey to heaven.
What an interesting question! Having taught books like MAUS and Night to multiple English classes, I can offer my perspective.
>It had a profound but negative impact on me, because I learned about this at the age of 13 and 15 and I was traumatized by the hate I learned the world has.
Me too. I learned about the holocaust at synagogue ("Saturday School"). We all took the course in 7th grade, which is also when most of us were going through the process of bar and bat mitzvah. Unlike the times I learned about it in my secular, public high school, this course was "no holds barred," meaning that we saw graphic pictures and films, read graphic accounts, learned horrifying facts, and spoke with many survivors. I had many bad dreams. As a Jew, even in America, knowing about the holocaust has made me live with a degree of fear that this could happen again, not just to Jews, but to any marginalized people. It contributed in a huge way to my urges towards social justice and a sensitivity to the suffering of others, both in history and today, whether they be in Rwanda or Syria. It taught me that part of becoming an adult is understanding that humanity has a deep evil. It also taught me about the efforts of many brave and heroic people, however, like those in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the "Defiant" story of the Bielski brothers, and many non-Jews like those in Denmark, Sweden, and England.
So to answer your question:
>Is this really the time to learn about all the violence and atrocities and give so much focus on that particular subject?
Yes, this is the time.
And as /u/itsacalamity pointed out, your comparisons to Mother Theresa and Gandhi are not appropriate. Mainly, the story of the holocaust is the story of Europe in the 20th century, not just one or a few individuals. The holocaust happened not just because of Hitler and the Nazis but because a so-called "advanced" civilization allowed it to happen (and continues to either perpetrate or stand by similar horrors). And by all means, study these people! Yes, you should definitely study Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela and Eleanor Roosevelt and Jane Addams and so on, but also the traditions that informed them, like Christian charity, Ubuntu, and American pragmatism.
>The adolescent age is a time where we are our most vulnerable emotionally and we are still trying to form our identities.
Hopefully learning about the suffering of others and the perpetrators of evil will form a part of your identity that will not see yourself as exempt from suffering and will prompt you to take part in the diminishing of the suffering of others as an antidote.
Orthodox Alaska is a great book on the subject, for those interested.
Sts Jacob Netsvetov and Innocent are men I greatly admire.
Orthodox Alaska: A Theology of Mission
By Fr. Michael Oleksa
link
Read Hitchens: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html
https://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4
Her family is more than just "religious." Jehovah's Witnesses are fundamentalist: their belief in, and allegiance to, doctrine is the way they use fear to control their followers (who, of course, call it faith). Deny those beliefs or express any doubt whatsover and you'll be exiled by family and the entire community. Lately, Amber Scorah has been doing a great job of "translating" this for non-fundamentalists in the media. Read her book to understand what you're up against. The bottom line is that the stakes couldn't be higher for your gf, so either way it's going to be a very difficult road.
When you link to it, just use the first part of the address. Sometimes if someone uses the longer address to find it and then review it, Amazon will link the review to you and not let it through. So, just this: https://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Witness-Exiting-Religion-Finding/dp/0735222541/
Congratulations!
Hello, English-speaking white boy here. I was baptized in a very well-educated OCA parish years ago and moved to my current city for work. Here there is only a Greek parish, a very ethnically Greek parish, so I understand what you are feeling.
The reason so many "ethnic" parishes exist in the Western world versus the missiological route taken by Sts Cyril and Methodius which offers services in a native language is because of the way the bulk of Orthodoxy arrived in the West.
Though there were missionary trips (check out "Orthodox Alaska" for a taste of the missions work among the native people), most of Orthodoxy came with the immigrants as their religion and their culture. Many people groups upon arriving in America settled into ethnic ghettos and though they had become part of the world's 'melting pot,' they were still very isolated. Their culture was still their identity and was passed down to following generations.
Much of my parish is still first-generation Americans and where I live, we don't get too many inquisitors about Orthodoxy because it's in the 'Bible Belt,' so this parish has remained mostly Greek in language. The current priest is an American-born Carpatho-Russian priest who has added some English, but on a 'good' day we're still at 80% Greek.
For all of the 'ethnic' parishes around there are plenty that offer services in English, whether OCA, Antiochian, Greek, ROCOR, etc. But, as my priest has to remind me when I jump on my "I want English!" soap box, the Greeks in our parish are just as much the sheep he has been entrusted with as we English-speaking people are. And (I am not speaking on a wide scale, I am simply stating from my particular parish), so much of their cultural identity is wrapped in Orthodoxy that if we abandoned the Greek, many in our parish would stop coming, even though they speak English.
It can be frustrating, but I have learned much of the liturgical Greek since arriving and since I know the Liturgy in English, the transition hasn't been too bad. Because I am not Greek, I do stand out a bit. The Greeks refer to me as "the Russian," though I'm not sure why. There are many who haven't spoken the first word to me in three years, but then again, there are many others who have welcomed me and tried to Greek me up a bit (though I still haven't gotten the taste for ouzo).
A unified American Orthodox Church is still a long way in the future, but it is something being worked toward. There is much to decide upon, much to sort out. I'm all for a uniquely American Orthodoxy (I would even propose our Liturgical chant be based on Sacred Harp, but that's just my opinion), but it will take time, lots of time, just like Orthodoxy around the world has required hundreds and thousands of years to take its place among the people.
Or just read the book yourself you lazy brainwashed fucktard.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007EDZ20O/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i9
> Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Highly recommended to students of real, non-hypothetical Christian mission (not at all limited to Orthodox mission): Michael Oleksa's excellent book Orthodox Alaska recounts the encounter between the Aleut, Tlingit, Yup'ik and other Eskimo peoples the first Christian missionaries to Alaska.
The conversation didn't start with "You're going to hell." It started with learning the Alaska Natives' cultures and languages, and finding bridges between what they already knew to be so, and the additional complementary revelation Christ brings.
They already knew there's a Creator to whom they're accountable, and they already had a liturgical understanding of time and worship. Without needing to threaten anybody, missionary monks and priests were able to demonstrate Christian community; care for and defend the Native people against mistreatment; show them a way of worship fuller and deeper than they previously knew; and introduce them to the Savior who's worthy of honor and service.
Missionaries assumed everybody in Alaska was following whatever light of truth their traditional faith provided - and they knew God would judge the Native people as individuals, by the degree to which they allowed Grace to make them righteous. But the missionaries also knew that most people don't find their way independently to the righteousness apart from law; everybody wants to be a "good person" but falls short. So the missionaries brought the good news that now everyone has, in Christ, the ability to become the righteousness of God in Him.
No wonder the Natives embraced the faith.
> I will leave saving the world to you, Mother Teresa.
And even that is controversial given her attitudes while alive, if you can trust Christopher Hitchens' book about her. I've read it and it is terrifying.
I'm guessing it's from this:
Heart of Joy: The Transforming Power of Self Giving
If the context is, we gain joy from what we give, I might be more on board. Then joy becomes the result of love. Still, I'd have to read the book to know for sure.
The most famous example of this that I know is Bruchko by Bruce Olson. He strikes off into the jungle as a teenager, totally on his own, and almost dies several times while attempting to make contact with an isolated tribe. Eventually he discovers that all along, the tribe had a prophecy about how someone like him would come to bring them a message of truth (or something along those lines).
There's also the really influential missionary book Peace Child, which introduces the "'redemptive analogy' thesis: the idea that each culture has some story, ritual, or tradition that can be used to illustrate and apply the Christian gospel message." Not quite the same, though, since I don't think he believes these indigenous narratives can be salvific on their own.
The only book I read as a Christian that tells exactly the story you're describing was a kid's fiction book: The Secret of the Desert Stone.
Not just America. Italy and Ireland (half anyway) are devoutly Catholic.
A certain acerbic, recently deceased, political commentator suggested Mother Theresa should be tried as a war criminal for all her efforts to keep women pregnant and poor.
Christopher Hitchens and his book.
In addition to what /u/tphelan88 said, I would say that evangelism is not primarily about conversion, but about worship. We evangelize not primarily to save people, but primarily to increase true worship of God. Conversion is necessary for someone to truly worship, and so it is a fruit we desire to see from evangelism, but if everyone truly worshipped God, there would be no evangelism. After Christ returns, there will be worship, but no evangelism.
Because we are seeking to increase worship of God, the act of evangelism itself is a form of worship. Thus our evangelism has a fruit, whether or not it leads to conversion. When we preach the gospel to everyone, we know that our work is always bearing fruit, even when it doesnt always bring conversion.
If you are interested in a reformed/calvinistic perspective on evangelism, check out Let the Nations be Glad! by John Piper.
Edit: Also, check out the classic Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer
That's okay, Hitchens wasn't afraid to.
Unauthorized biographies could be fun. I'm surprised this list doesn't include "The Missionary Position" by Christopher Hitchens
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007EDZ20O/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
There's a difficult part in Hosea 2:16-17. Here is the ESV:
> 16 “And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ 17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.
The idea here is the Hebrew word Baal means husband/master, but was also the name of a pagan god. Thus people who prayed to that name, could claim to be praying to the Lord, because the Lord is their master. It must have made relations smoother with all the Baal worshipers they interacted with, and it would have allowed them to get more wisdom and teachings, because oftentimes the Bible seems so short, and there are so many things it doesn't mention. Yet God rejected this practice and admonished them to not use that name for him anymore.
On the other hand, in Acts 17, Paul comes across one of the altars to "an unknown god" that was common in the Graeco-Roman empire. They used these altars because oftentimes disaster would be associated with worshiping the wrong god and so it was better to hedge if you weren't sure. Paul does not admonish them, but compliments their religiosity:
> Acts 17:22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
Then Paul proclaims to them the real object of their worship, the Lord:
> 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
> 24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[b]
>29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
Amos Yong is one of the most interesting writers on pluralism in Christianity today. His writing might interest you:
https://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Pluralism-Today-Reassessing-Missiological-ebook/dp/B017J89YVQ
https://www.amazon.com/Religious-Pluralism-Commission-Theological-Christian/dp/0981958281
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Impasse-Pneumatological-Theology-Religion/dp/1498204651
https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Poured-Out-Flesh-Pentecostalism-ebook/dp/B005OYUIIG
I find that Christianity is difficult for people to accept who reject the doctrine of original sin / total depravity / brokenness. This is part of why Christianity has made so little progress in Japan. I will be interested in whatever answers you find in your journey.
For me, I see glimpses of my brokenness restored in my new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17), yet even as sanctification continues, I don't see how it will ever be complete until Christ comes again and fully restores the New Kingdom. Furthermore I don't see how this new creation would be possible without God's grace.
Yet all of these concepts and words are packed with theological baggage and centuries of western philosophy and culture. Could satori (悟) be another way of saying born again? Could our earthly passions (煩悩) be another way of recognizing original sin? To me the gospel of LOVE and MERCY and GRACE makes this difficult to accept, but might there be a path there for someone else? I sure hope so. Because I want all to come to share in the wondrous gift of salvation. And antagonizing -- instead of attempting to understand and converse with -- other belief structures has caused a lot of historical problems and may not be the most righteous path.
However, my personal conviction is it is still only a path to God. Christ is the destination. After finding him, accepting his grace, and having a personal relationship with him--I believe that is more than enough. At that point the other things seem like distractions and tests, and their merits few.
I would also recommend his book, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
http://www.amazon.com/The-Missionary-Position-Mother-Practice/dp/1455523003
Start with Malcolm Muggeridge's biography of her, then read the whole series of paperbacks written by her nuns and brothers collected from the things she said and did. Many of them can be had for one cent. This is not a complete list:
http://www.amazon.com/Something-Beautiful-God-Malcolm-Muggeridge/dp/0060660430/
http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Jesus-Jose-Luis-Gonzalez-Balado/dp/0892836768/
http://www.amazon.com/One-Heart-Full-Love-Mother/dp/0892833939/
http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Joy-Mother-Teresa-Calcutta/dp/0892833424/
http://www.amazon.com/Total-Surrender-Br-Angelo-Devananda/dp/0892836512/
If these topics interest you, I highly recommend this work: New Testament Biblical Theology, A. The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New.
I could be wrong, but I think most of us here have gotten our Mommy-T sources from Christopher Hitchens's writings
http://www.amazon.com/The-Missionary-Position-Mother-Practice/dp/1455523003
John Dehlin, famous for the thorough and amazing mormonstories podcast, along with a handful of others hosted the conference.
Here is a copy of the schedule.
There were also a few authors who were available during breaks for book signings. Amber Scorah talked about her book, Leaving the Witness, and Jeremy Runnels sold paperback copies of his CES Letter and said he will be using proceeds to help fund the event, etc.
Please elaborate? Garner didn't publish until the early 60's - and by that time, The Hobbit had been on shelves for over two decades and The Lord of the Rings had been around for five years or so.
The Tolkien Encyclopedia from Drout mentions around pages 375-380 that even though Garner "denied any influence from Tolkien", there are strong similarities in phrasing and common sources (Norse and English mythology) which, according to Drout, would have been unlikely to have occurred had Tolkien's works not drawn other fantasy writers to them. Drout argues that "... Garner shows that a debt to Tolkien may also be a debt to mythology..."
Balls in your court, shouty man.
"The Holiness Of God" by R.C. Sproul influenced my thinking somewhat.
"God's Smuggler" by 'Brother Andrew' inspired some activity.
Too lazy to complete their thoughts. Anyways, she took the money that was donated and poured it into the convent amongst other things. American intellectual Christopher Hitchens wrote a book about her.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Missionary-Position-Mother-Practice/dp/1455523003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa
My husband is currently reading Orthodox Alaska by Oleksa and enjoying it.
https://www.amazon.com/Orthodox-Alaska-Theology-Michael-Oleksa/dp/0881410926
You might try reading "Idoru" by William Gibson. Part of the novel involves a virtual community online that is closely modeled on the walled city. Try chapter 26 to see if it is of interest.
There's also Chasing the Dragon: One Woman's Struggle Against the Darkness of Hong Kong's Drug Dens, via this article in Gizmodo: Kowloon Walled City: Remembering Hong Kong’s Chaotic City of Darkness
Edit: added second paragraph
Christopher Hitchens put her on blast a while ago in his book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
This book and if you google the title you can find shorter essays that cover the salient points. Mother Teresa was a cunt.
If you want less dated books, i can give you some.
They don't contain theory, but show their personal lives and how radical God is working with them.
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Smuggler-Brother-Andrew/dp/0800793013
http://www.amazon.com/Captive-Iran-Remarkable-Triumph-Tehrans-ebook/dp/B008PX20X4
and here a book where many christians are left in awe. This man went after Jesus while many 'normal' christians thought he wasn't doign it correct. He thought for himself. Comming from a successfull career. He had a pitbull mentality regarding finding God. He found him, and walked in the promises as given in the Bible unlike generally seen.
http://www.amazon.com/John-Lake-Complete-Collection-Teaching/dp/088368568X
Mother Teresa wasn't so great The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice https://www.amazon.com/dp/1455523003/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_I3YvDbPT1R5RD
I think your observation is correct. I wish there was a local journalist willing to do a long-form deep investigation similar to what Hitchens did for Mother Teresa... (looking at you, RFT).
Ah, I see. No worries - you see why it sounded a bit, uh, uncool. :P
As for actually answering your question though, this thread has lots of varying levels of TL;DR in it that should work, and beyond that, there's the Wikipedia page (also linked in this thread).
If you want the exact opposite of a TL;DR, Christopher Hitchens wrote a short book called The Missionary Position (cheeky bugger) about how much he dislikes Mother Theresa.
https://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003
Always a classic read.
Here’s a couple of good books you may consider reading beforehand or take along, God bless
Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801036410/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_3l50CbFZ3KR8C
Cross: Unrivaled Christ, Unstoppable Gospel, Unreached Peoples, Unending Joy https://www.amazon.com/dp/1433686015/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Ni50CbY6XG857
The definitive book on the woman:
Same material in book format.
 
http://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003/
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-JjaAh0NeU and MT are one and the same to me.
What is insane about repeating known facts?
Congratulations. My wife and I are missionaries in Japan and support raising had been the most difficult part be far. There are two good books I would highly recommend: The God Ask, and Funding Your Ministry.
http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Dragon-Struggle-Against-Darkness/dp/0830743820
I'll definitely check out the one you mentioned as well. Thanks!
Check out this book. It's all a Christians faith conversations with Muslims and vice versa. You might find it helpful.
https://www.amazon.com/Land-Blue-Burqas-Kate-McCord-ebook/dp/B007VO7UX8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526755081&sr=8-1&keywords=land+of+blue+burqas
This is the correct short answer.
The long answer is linked below, and it is well worth your time and money to read
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0830826181/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473054914&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=the+temple+and+the+church%27s+mission&dpPl=1&dpID=41Wj1WGYN5L&ref=plSrch
Here is Hitchen's book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1455523003
Here is a blog post that recaps much of Hitchen's meticulous research. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2015/12/mother-teresa-sadistic-religious-fanatic/
The information Mother Theresa can be corroborated by Christopher Hitchens book about her.
Interested in reading life-changing missionary stories? Bruchko is a powerful read. Also, Lords of the Earth. Of course Peace Child is a classic. If you've read 'Peace Child' you may enjoy this powerful short video of the author and his son's visit to the village where they worked 50 years before: Never the Same.
Tribes around the world that are essentially in the "Stone Age". Aka, the most advanced tools they have are made with stone. They hunt with bows and arrows or blowdarts or the like. Generally they live in the jungle, as the jungle keeps them isolated from the outside world.
If you're interested in stuff like that, for starters read Peace Child. It's the true story of a missionary who went to live with a stone age tribe of headhunters/cannibals in the 60s. Very well written, gripping, and fascinating. The whole "Someone will come to explain this to you" scenario doesn't happen per se, but there's tons of other great stuff in there.
http://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411755691&sr=8-1&keywords=the+missionary+position+christopher+hitchens
Hitch was not a fan.
Here you go.
It's called "Hell's Angel: Mother Teresa" Youtube
And here's the book he wrote about her: The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice Amazon Wikipedia
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Not surprised....not surprised. Prepare to have your notions shattered.
Check out this book by Christopher Hitchens The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice.
Bad link. Here you go:
Missionaries commonly find that God has prepared the way for them by planting hints of himself in the beliefs of many cultures, from Paul in Athens (who quoted "in whom we live, and move, and have our being" from a poem about Zeus) to the Algonquin Great Manitou to Peace Child.
The Mystery of the Incarnation and the Paschal Mystery are both acts of the New Creation by God. There is a reason 2 Corinthians 5:17 calls us "New Creations"; there's a reason that Colossians 1:6 says that the Gospel is bearing fruit, harkening back to Garden imagery; there's a reson why the early Church Fathers called Sunday the 8th day.
Christ's resurrection has irreparably changed the nature of creation as we know it and it is now always growing forwards to a greater and greater manifestation of the kingdom of heaven onto the earth. I highly recommend that you read The Temple and the Church's Mission by G. K. Beale.
In my opinion, this is one of the best out there: Old Testament Theology by Paul House.
Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord and The Temple and the Church's Mission are both really wonderful biblical-theological pieces of work as well.
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Sure, read https://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003
I see it as based more on ANE theological motifs and cultic practices.
Haven't had time to sift through the comments (so likely noted elsewhere) but the Garden represented a Temple. The creation of the man/woman in Gen 1.27 was akin to the installation of the image of the deity in a temple. This is discussed more fully here.
Functional usage and installation of the temple image is discussed in these monographs:
The Roman Catholic nun Mother Teresa, who is widely considered to be a moral role model was actually an awful individual.
Despite converting thousands of individuals, Mother Teresa questioned her faith. So much so that it is fair enough to call her an agnostic. Source
She never truly helped the poor because she believed some people were meant to suffer. She once said "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."
While she provided food, and temporary shelter to the poor, it was evident that she never intended to empower the poor. The medical care that she provided to patients has also come under criticism as being hazardous. She embezzled donations so that they could be used by the Vatican for general use.
Many of her donations came from illegal sources. She accepted money from a dictator from Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier. Duvalier stole millions from the people of Haiti. Charles Keating, who was convicted in the saving and loans scandal donated over a million to Mother Teresa. Furthermore, she accepted donations from Robert Maxwell who embezzled over £450 million.
Mother Teresa believed that condoms were worst than aids, and refused to supply contraception to people who definitely needed them. She also encouraged people to baptize people as they were dying regardless of their religious affiliation.
Christopher Hitchens published a book called the Missionary Position that argues that Mother Teresa was a figurehead for the Catholic Church's fundamentalist views, not the saint she is portrayed to be.
>Oh and since you haven't figured it out yet, you literally don't even know what you're arguing. This whole time I haven't been disputing anything that's probably in your shitty links. I'm simply stating that none of those things make her a bad person.
My entire argument is that you have failed to present any arguments of your own- either by citing things you have read or by providing sources that counter mine. By your own admission you haven't even read the arguments against her, but you know that those things don't make her a shitty person. Adorable.
>I'll be gone for another 5-6 days again, so I'll look forward to destroying you again then.
I'll look forward to more "nu uh's" delivered with all the eloquence of a toddler in a finger painting session. You fundamentalists are always a hoot.
Bless your heart you poor thing.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007EDZ20O/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
It depends. I suggest you check out the Urbana Missions Conference. It's one of the biggest missions conferences in the United States and can help you get a better feel for what you can do and where you can go. I also highly recommend On Being a Missionary by Dr. Thomas Hale, who was a friend of my family's and was a doctor in rural Nepal for 30 years. It has a lot of practical wisdom and helps you get personally ready.
Here is the mobile version of your link
And the name of said book...The Missionary Position (God I miss Hitchens)
https://www.amazon.com/Missionary-Position-Mother-Teresa-Practice/dp/1455523003
>condoms to prevent AIDS.
FTFY
Christianity is supposed to be based off 2 main rules, Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength (because he created you and loves you and wants to have a relationship with you), and love your neighbor as yourself (Because they are a creation of God and He loves them too). Anything done to Break these rules is sin, which puts a separation between man and God, because God must be perfect and man is imperfect. The only way to fix this is too repent because God wants to forgive our sin so he can be in relationship with us. But an imperfect person cannot repent perfectly be cause he has been corrupted. However a perfect person can repent perfectly, but has no need to do so. So God took the form of a man, lived a perfect sinless life, was killed (paying the price for sin), and rose from the dead (defeating death). Now because a perfect man payed the price of our sin, we can simply accept his sacrifice and be back in the right standing with God and we can have the relationship for which he created us.
And you have obviously never heard the story of the peace child. There was a tribe in the South Asian Islands who were visited by missionaries. They were told the story of the gospel. When they got to the part about Judas talking to the pharisees and accepting silver they listened closer. When they told about the betrayal in the garden, they cheered for judas. When they heard about Judas throwing the silver at the feet of the pharisees, they were confused. And when Judas hung himself they screamed out in protest. You see their culture revered betrayal. Long ago their king had two sons. one betrayed the other and took everything the king had left him, then he had two sons and one betrayed another yet again. and this continued until they believed betrayal to be the only way to succeed. So you would have people sleeping with a knife to ward off those who would kill them in the night for their property. So the missionaries taught them the story of Jesus himself in the context of biblical history. When they heard it they said that it reminded them of their peace child, the son of the chief who was traded for the son of the chief of a related tribe to ensure that they tribes would not attack each other. If one tribe did attack the other they would kill the peace child. The missionaries taught a better way to live, with christian morality. They taught them to trust and not betray each other. Don't you believe that this is better than how the tribe was going about things before? Oh and this is a real story. You can read about it in the book Peace Child.
Have a look at The Missionary Position to have your information expanded. /u/NewfieCanOpener hit the highlights above.
Alternatively, you could read the dear late Hitchens' excellent The Missionary Position (available in fine bookstores everywhere).
not really, ad-hoc arguments wouldnt get me anywhere. I would still debate that the internet has a larger educational base of over 2.4 billion. I dont think they could dream of hitting that many people.
As far as healthcare is concerned... If their flagship example of healthcare (as a non/never catholic's view) is the woman known as "Mother Teresa". I would rather not have their brand of "help". http://www.alternet.org/belief/mother-theresas-masochism-does-religion-demand-suffering-keep-people-passive Also see: http://www.amazon.com/The-Missionary-Position-Mother-Practice/dp/1455523003
She was a real bitch. For anyone who wants to know more about her, I strongly recommend Christopher Hitchens' book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice.
>"Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction." - Christopher Hitchens
Check out Hitch's book on the topic:
The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice .... best title ever.