Hume to Tiger: Find Jesus
Fox News analyst Brit Hume has some advice for Tiger Woods: Convert to Christianity.
One segment of Fox News Sunday involved predictions for 2010. When it came to sports, Hume focused on the golfer who has withdrawn from the sport in the wake of an infidelity scandal:
Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Whether he can recover as a person I think is a very open question, and it's a tragic situation with him. I think he's lost his family. It's not clear to me that – whether he'll be able to have a relationship with his children.
But the Tiger Woods that emerges once the news value dies out of this scandal – the extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith. He's said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith.
So my message to Tiger would be, “Tiger, turn your faith – turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world."
We haven’t seen Woods call himself a Buddhist, but he did tell Reuters in 2008 that his Buddhist mother had taught him to meditate.
“We also have a thing we do every year where we go to the temple together,” he said.
“In the Buddhist religion, you have to work for it yourself, internally, in order to achieve anuthing in life and set up the next life. It is all about what you do and you get out of it what you put into it.”
Back on Fox News Sunday, panelist Bill Kristol called Hume’s concern for Woods’ soul “admirable,” but offered what he called “a more straightforward sports prediction:”
“He'll come back and win the Masters, because, you know, he's still an awfully good golfer, despite the chaos and bad news about his personal life.”






Comments
How dare Brit Hume presume that it is even allowable for a supposed journalist to preach religion on a supposed "fair and balanced" news network. In as much as it is Fox, they will see how it plays and if they get away with it, make it a regular feature.
Posted by: Robert Littel | January 4, 2010 7:03 PM
Thank God Fox has the courage to stand for what is right, and not just right wing. Franklin Graham sent a letter recently to supporters saying that he wouldnt be surprised if preachers are arrested for "hate speech" after preaching from the pulpit. He is concerned, after the Copenhagen conference, about the worldly views expressed there. Mother earth is what is being worshiped instead of God who created the earth. Mother earth is just another satanic representation of a God replacement. The earth will be destroyed by fire anyway, so there is definitely a global warming taking place. Mr. Graham ended by saying that he will never stop preaching and that he will never shut up. There are many upcoming crusades in the year ahead where the gospel will be preached to the world, as many have already come to Christ through the efforts of the Graham ministry. The Fox Network is to be praised for helping God's effort.
Posted by: Clay | January 4, 2010 9:23 PM
Clay - I'm saying this in kindness, you are an insane blithering idiot, who is wasting oxygen someone else far more deserves. You make me ashamed to be considered the same species as you. I sometimes think that you are deliberately playing a game by just pretending to be as asinine as you seem to be just for kicks, but I don't think you are that clever.
Posted by: Robert Littel | January 4, 2010 11:18 PM
Clay, Fox News is not a ministry and Brit Hume is not a minister--he is one hell of an idiot--Buddhism, as illusory as Christianity, can lead to salvation if Tiger so chooses--Tiger Woods does not need a Jesus cult figure to forgive him or accept him--he didn't ask Brit Hume for help--Brit Hume is not an advice columnist--he is an officious fool--Tiger will forgive himself if he wants to and will survive or self destruct, as all humans do, religious or irreligious.
Ravensfan Anon
Posted by: Anonymous | January 5, 2010 9:37 AM
If the network is fair and balanced, it has a right to present all views, not just non Christian ones. Has any network besides a Christian one ever presented a Christian view on a news broadcast or opinion? It sounds like things are pretty slanted to me. You hear the politically correct view all the time. Let things be more fair and balanced. Besides, can you really stop God's word? Thanks.
Posted by: Clay | January 5, 2010 11:09 AM
Robert Littel - Why get so worked up because some journalist decided to preach a little. I can't imagine an atheist left wing extremist like you even watches Fox News. I pictured you more as a Huffington Post reader. Either way just as you are free to spout your hate filled atheist garbage so Hume is free to spread what he believes as well. If you don't like it don't listen.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 5, 2010 3:16 PM
There you are Anonymous--a self styled nemesis of Robert Littel--I guess you are trying to outstrip Ravensfan--but for that type competition you ain't a match pal. It is to find put how your enemy thinks, walks and talks Anonymous--that's why the Atheists watch--in fact Fox News and its shenanigans are fascinating to the left--if you don't understand the low blow tactics of your enemies and ideological opposites, Anonymous, you won't understand their mindset, neither will you have the proper counterweight or counterpoints to their arguments, plots, twists, turns and takeovers. Yes, Huffington Post is nice but it is tepid to the left Anonymous--Fox News is red meat--why are you interested in popping up with smart repartees for the Atheists Anonymous--you love being the bee in their bonnets, the storm in their tiny backyards--for the very same reasons, Anonymous, Robert Littel relaxes with his pipe and his cup of tea, in front of his flat TV, Fox News on, and tells himself, I wonder if the pedantic bore Fake Anonymous, will appear on the blogs today to vex and needle me--let me watch his mindset unfold before my very eyes in the form of some bilge from Hannity, Hume and headless Dick Morris--get the drift?
Ravensfan Anon
Posted by: Anonymous | January 5, 2010 6:55 PM
Ravensfan Anonymous - They are just so clueless. You nailed me fairly well, except for the pipe, (I just passed 25 years without a puff on New Years Eve). I watch Fox News until they say something stupid, which usually happens within the first 3 minutes, one minute max for Glenn (Harold Hill) Beck.
Posted by: Robert Littel | January 6, 2010 9:37 AM
Ravensfan Anon - Are you that starved for attention that you respond to a post not even meant for you? Perhaps you are Robert's defender. I could care less what either Robert or you watches or what you eat, drink, smoke or think while watching it. Nemesis, why because I challenge your own paradigm of how the world is or should be? Actually I watch or read from both sides myself so save the lecture for someone who needs it. The two of you are atheist fools who think that you are somehow superior to others. I noticed in all that post, which wasn't even addressed to you, you never actually answered the fundamental question. Why isn't Hume do the same rights as anyone else to say what he thinks or believes? Try staying on topic next time.
Robert – That’s about two and a half minutes more than it takes you to say something stupid.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 6, 2010 11:10 AM
Another man has given you a reply Anonymous on another post--it does not matter what you, I or anyone else says about Hume's right to say anything he pleases Anon--if the government stops him from saying it then his freedom of speech has been abrogated--that has not happened--I never said Brit Hume has no right to say what he wants to Anonymous. That's your assumption--I don't have to like what he said and I have as much a right to criticize it as you have to appreciate it. And Anonymous, this is a public forum and anyone who wants to can retort to any post--I didn't realize you wanted a private tete a tete with Robert on this blog--if my being an interloper irritates you Anonymous then I will more of an irritation be! By the way Anonymous-- though you have a distinct character sometimes it is blurred by other Anonymouses-- not to be mistaken for anyone else I suggest you call yourself, "Nemesis of Littel Anon"--
Ravensfan Anon
Posted by: Anonymous | January 6, 2010 8:41 PM
Ravensfan Anon –While I agree with what he said doing it in an open forum wasn’t the way to do it in my opinion. As for you being an irritation all I can say is don’t flatter yourself. If you were I wouldn’t still be here. What you are as far as I can tell is a more polite and clever version of Robert. It’s not like I have to come to this blog. Thank you for the clever moniker but if I wanted one I would have created one.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 7, 2010 10:45 AM
It is a shame that a man with the most anchor-person sounding name on the planet, rugged good looks that lasted into middle age and a voice that should demand respect in his professed profession, should waste it all by confusing which end of sixty odd feet of digestive tract is for speaking and which end is for defecation.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 7, 2010 11:48 AM
Mark 16:15-16 Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believes and is baptized shall be SAVED;but he that believes not SHALL be damned. If you didn't already know it these are the words of Jesus. A man that shed his blood for your sins and mine.
Posted by: BJ | January 12, 2010 11:37 PM
BJ - And why should the supposed command of a purported god/Human hybrid abomination, of a god that (due to lack of any proof or evidence) does not exist, have any meaning to those of us who live in the real world? The spread of your, head in the sand, denial of reality, is little more than a disease that must be stopped before it mutates and kills us all to achieve its stated goal ( see Revelations in your fairy-tale book, The Buy-Bull) of ending the world.
Posted by: Robert Littel | January 13, 2010 9:39 AM