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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
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If this sounds like nonsense, well, it is?

Does "If this sounds like nonsense, well, it is" mean:

(1) "If this sounds like nonsense, well, it is truth"?
(2) "If this sounds like nonsense, well, it is nonsense indeed"?

(1) or (2)?

Background info:

Mother Teresa has “deceived” us. Her work with the poor is done not for its own sake, but to “propagandize one highly subjective view of human nature.” She is “a religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer and accomplice of worldly secular powers.” Furthermore, the Albanian nun is “a demagogue, an obscurantist and a servant of earthly powers.” She keeps company with “frauds, crooks and exploiters,” and takes in millions of unaccounted for dollars.
If this sounds like nonsense, well, it is. But it is also the way Christopher Hitchens looks at Mother Teresa. His book, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, is a sequel to his British television “documentary” entitled “Hell’s Angel.” The sexual message implied in the book’s title demonstrates that Hitchens never escaped adolescence, and both the book and the film are designed to get the public to hate Mother Teresa the way he does. That he hasn’t fooled even the Village Voice, which took note of Hitchens’ hidden agenda “to prove all religion equally false,” must be disconcerting for the author. After all, if the alienated can’t be fooled, it’s time for Hitchens to pack it in.
  

Top answer

If this sounds like nonsense, well, it is nonsense. (It is not a true conditional, of course. ")

  • If this sounds like nonsense, well, it is nonsense.
  • (It is not a true conditional, of course.
  • ")
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If this sounds like nonsense, well, it is nonsense.

(It is not a true conditional, of course. The effective meaning is more like "This sounds like nonsense and is nonsense.")

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