# Religious people who are being dicks in the Christopher Hitchens thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413 "2011-12-16T15:19:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 145
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> [@Christopher Hitchens just died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/88): > > In the article you linked to, he called Mother Teresa “a fraud”. Elsewhere he accused her of “stealing millions of dollars” and being “a cult leader”. Now generally if you’re going to accuse someone in print of commiting theft and fraud, you want to be able to say when the person was convicted or at least indicted of the crime, which Hitchens couldn’t do. If not that, you at least want to be able to offer some evidence that the crime occurred, which Hitchens also couldn’t do. Indeed, in that article he offers no evidence to back up any of his serious accusations against here. There are two links within the article, but neither goes to anything. What the heck God without proof is a sure thing…But documentation is needed before a citizen can call some one a fraud? Also someone needs to go back to civics class and learn what the heck an indictment even is. Targets (not suspects, they have not been charged) of Grand Jury investigations have no right to a defense, the grand jury room only has the citizen grand jury and the AUSA (Assistant US Attorney) and all they decide is if there is PROBABLE CAUSE that a crime committed and that there is PROBABLE CAUSE it is the target. So some how if at least 16 people in a locked room with the prosecution think that someone may have possibly committed a crime it is fine to call them a “fraud”…Get off your high horse, ITR champion, if you are thinking an indictment == guilty you are actually worse than those who make a casual claim of fraud. As a GJ alumni and an admitted non-professional who is unqualified to do what follows I would say if the diversion of donations to the church is documented as Hitch claimed I would have returned a “true bill” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-people-who-are-being-dicks-in-the-christopher-hitchens-thread/606413)._