BIO of Malcolm Muggeridge
here.
What little I mentioned about Malcolm Muggeridge was on a thread
about Mother Teresa. He was brought up as a socialist and believed
that religion was trash, but when he tried to critically dissect Christianity,
he found that he couldn't, so be began a steady conversion in the
1960s.
From the link above:
In addition to the writings of Christian mystics, he was profoundly influenced
by Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her efforts on behalf of the forgotten
people of the world. “Mother Teresa is, in herself,” he writes, “a living
conversion; it is impossible to be with her, to listen to her, to observe what
she is doing and how she is doing it, without being in some degree
converted…” She is the subject of his book Something Beautiful for God.
It seems Muggeridge made a film about her in 1969, and in it,
she appeared to glow on the film. I haven't seen it -- indeed,
I don't even know if it was filmed in b&w or color -- but
Muggeridge, a blossoming Christian throwing off the shackles
of cynicism, remarked that it was a kind of "holy light" around
the Indian would-be saint.
Christopher Hitchens has written extensively about what a fraud
Mother T was an cites Muggeridge as a primary cause of the
West's admiration for her. She never helped the poor do anything
but convert to Catholicism,
she made friends with the worst
of dictators and capitalists alike, and she never built a single
hospital in India, in spite of having at least $50,000,000 in
one bank account in NYC at the time of her death.