Last weekend on Fox News Sunday, anchor-turned-commentator Brit Hume stirred up trouble saying that golfer/adulterer Tiger Woods should convert to Christianity from Buddhism, because Christianity uniquely offers the chance of redemption. Yesterday, in an interview with WTOP radio (h/t Ken Tucker), Hume stuck to his guns.
Personally, as a half-Catholic-half-Jewish-pretty-much-totally-secular nonbeliever, I reject Hume’s suggestion that Christians are uniquely equipped to overcome their failings and become better people. But you know what, he believes it, he’s a commentator now, and he’s free to say it. I am not a religious judge. (That is to say, I am not Brit Hume.) And I at least admire his sticking to his argument rather than walking it back with some publicist-approved damage control.
What is ridiculous, though, is Hume’s implication that he’s being picked on solely because he’s a Christian.
