To mix a few metaphors, when Brit Hume sticks his foot in his mouth, he just keeps digging!
(Pause while you form that mental picture. Got it?)
A few weeks back Brit Hume made headlines by dropping any pretense he had left that he was a journalist of some sort, and suggesting that in order for Tiger Woods to fix his mistakes, he should abandon his Buddhist faith and become a Christian. (This, despite the fact that on most counts, practicing Buddhists mop the floor with practicing Christians when it comes to morality.) Well, now he’s gone and done it again. After Tiger’s press conference where he said “Sorry about all the sex, y’all,” he said that he had “lost track” of the teachings of his faith.
So that should be the end of the story, right? Oh, but no. Brit Hume decided to go on television and say this instead:
I thought Tiger Woods showed himself in that presentation to be a shaken, chastened, and contrite man. And gone was the swagger. Gone was all of the radiant self-confidence that we used to see in him. This was a pretty shaken guy up there.
Now look, I think, because I’m a Christian and I believe that Christianity is true, that Tiger Woods and his wife Elin would be a lot farther down the road toward forgiveness and redemption if they were both Christians, but they’re not. And I — they’re going to do the best they can with what they have. And I wish Tiger Woods well.
Oh fergawdsake. Now it’s a pissing contest over which religion brings redemption faster?
Christianity: I can forgive you all the way past that tree!
Buddhism: Grow up, dude.
I love this. It’s the inaccurate and vile mind-think that every person on the planet is a christian Didn’t anyone mention that the constitution forbids a state endorsed religion? Wasn’t that a really big deal?
As a Christian gay man, I find this embarrassing. Sadly, there are many, many Christians who have made mistakes and gotten involved in infidelity. To elevate Christianity above all other religions and pretend like it is a guarantee of fidelity in marriage is ignoring reality. Tiger’s faith is between him and God and Britt needs to butt out.
The joke of this, besides Hume’s sanctimonious arrogance, is that Christ and the Buddha taught almost identical philosophies, including the stories/parables they told to make the point. If anyone is interested, there is a book called Jesus and Buddha: the Parallel Sayings. Some people believe that Christ traveled to India during ‘the lost years’ and studied Buddhism. In my opinion, they were both just ‘tapping into’ the same higher level of consciousness.
Hume and his ilk should read Matthew 6:5 and 6:6 and start practicing what they preach–for a change!