Dartmouth College Atheists Plan Mother Teresa Roast
‘Tis the season for atheists to start targeting Christian traditions.
The College Fix reports on an atheist event that manages to blend tasteless campus antics with progressive attacks on faith.
This one will leave you shaking your head in disgust.
An atheist group at Dartmouth College plans to roast the late Mother Teresa, describing the upcoming event as a “full-out romp against why one of the most beloved people of the century, Mother Teresa, is … ‘a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf,’” Campus Reform reports.
The event is slated for Saturday and will be hosted by the Atheists Humanists Agnostics (AHA) club, and it’s ignited controversy, the website states.
It’s easy for a group of privileged Ivy League students who have never experienced poverty to meet in a ‘super secret room’ and think themselves as intellectuals by bashing Mother Teresa,” Melanie Wilcox, Executive Editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review, told Campus Reform.
“I’d like to know what they have done, if anything, to help the needy,” she added.
AHA President Adam Hann, however, defended the event, but admitted he had intentionally used “provocative” language in the e-mail to excite interest among students.
“What I like to do is, when there are areas that people just get vitriol or angry even for bringing it up, I like to go and have that discussion,” said Hann.
It’s hard to believe academics spend their time crucifying a woman who argued for peace and love and took care of the forgotten and abandoned in this world. But in honor of Mother Teresa’s legacy, instead of making some snide comment about the type of people who are hosting this event, we’ll end with her words:
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other … spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Oliver Darcy of CampusReform.org offers an insight to the group’s promotional strategy:
AHA President Adam Hann, however, defended the event, but admitted he had intentionally used “provocative” language in the e-mail to excite interest among students.
“What I like to do is, when there are areas that people just get vitriol or angry even for bringing it up, I like to go and have that discussion,” said Hann.
Attacking a revered Catholic figure is not likely to be a big draw, as Hann estimates less than a dozen people will participate in this Saturday’s event.
Dartmouth College Atheist Group Plans Mother Teresa Roast (The College Fix)
Comments
Oh, how daring, how cutting edge, how really, really brave of them.
Lets see them take on a Muslim, any Muslim, on the topic of Islam. Just to pick a name from the old hat, how about Mohammed.
Hey, Adam — good luck for many years with potential employers Googling you. Betcha 99% who discover this extraordinary immaturity of yours won’t touch you. Ironically, you’re probably going to need a Mother Teresa now to get a decent job.
Many years ago, when I was a student at Dartmouth, the Dartmouth Review decided to hold a sumptuous banquet on the day that Oxfam was having its annual collection. I thought it was in poor taste, no matter how ineffectual Oxfam might be, or how trite students fasting for a day might have been, but the level of campus outrage generated by the stunt really surprised me.
Now, we see a similar stunt, aimed against a different target, and I find it hard to believe that there will be anywhere near the same general state of outrage on campus. Militant atheism is quite as orthodox as Catholicism, but evidence of its good works is hard to find. Apparently, they are so hate-blind that they cannot anticipate such a criticism; it seems that they feel they are justified by disbelief alone.