Brit Hume Still Saying Tiger Woods Would Be Better Off If He Were Christian (VIDEO)

Brit Hume has publicly called for Tiger Woods to convert to Christianity to find forgiveness and redemption following his sex scandal. And even after Tiger's apology — in which he reaffirmed his Buddhist faith — Hume still thinks Christianity is the best path for him.

"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," Hume told Bill O'Reilly Monday. "But they're not. And they're going to do the best they can with what they have. And I wish Tiger Woods well."

Hume also said that, in his public apology Friday, Woods was a "shaken, chastened, and contrite man."

"Gone was the swagger," he said. "Gone was all of the radiant self-confidence that we used to see in him. This was a pretty shaken guy up there."

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[Vxx]

01:15 PM on 03/03/2010

Hume is an easy torch for HuffPo to rake in the pagehits. He's such a piece of disgusting work and his pontifications make you wish SOMEONE would cream-pie this twit.

[shellyamber]

07:49 AM on 03/03/2010

really????

Ted Haggard, Jimmy Swaggart....

Need I say more?

[hyjanks]

09:30 PM on 03/02/2010

It's all about fleecing the flock. In this case, the church is Fox Snooze and the flock is the viewing audience, most of whom applaud Brits hubris and will thus tune him in and, in the process, view the advertisements.
If the subject were colostomies, Brit's advertisers would be the ones selling the bags.

[ILObamican]

08:06 AM on 03/02/2010

I guess I'm having a tough time understanding why there's so much outrage.

Brit Hume is on Bill O'Reilly's show, which is an opinion-driven show, giving his opinion. (There are those who would argue that all Fox News programming is opinion-driven, but let's set that aside a moment). If Brit were a practicing member of any other faith and made comments stating that his beliefs would help Tiger Woods through this dark time, would there be a similar outrage?

I doubt as much.

As someone who, like Hume, is a still-human, still-imperfect follower of Jesus Christ, I believe that the notions of redemption, restoration and renewal are central to life lived the way our Creator intended. I suggest that Brit was pointing to these things in particular when he made the statements he's made. I believe that those things would also do well to begin the healing process between Tiger and his wife.

I understand that the overwhelming majority of Huffington Post readers do not share my faith, but I felt the need to state my views... which is what I suppose a comments section is for.

Whether or not we agree on a single thing, I wish peace, joy and contentment for all of you. Be blessed.

[AbeMartin]

11:48 AM on 03/02/2010

Mr. Hume's first wife, Clare Jacobs Stoner, is probably from a Jewish family. I imagine that St. Brit's disparagement of all things, Un-Christian (as he himself is, to judge by his public remarks), was no small issue, when it was decided to get divorced.

Mr. Woods' choice of religion is no one's business except his own. And no one, even the pompous exemplar of Republican anal retentiveness, has any right to offer opinions on what he needs do to achieve redemption.

[ILObamican]

04:50 PM on 03/02/2010

Ah, but that's the beauty of living in a free society: he does, in fact, have that right. Just as you have the right to disagree.

[hallowellboy]

09:56 AM on 03/01/2010

Hume needs a face AND brain lift. More rightwing bs.

[seawolf77]

09:00 AM on 03/01/2010

He'd be buggaring altar boys then.

[wayoutleft]

11:04 PM on 02/28/2010

Tiger may turn out to be surprisingly vulnerable to cult recruitment. Scientology can work the most famous and protected ppl on the planet. There are other disciplines that would like control of tiger as well. For Tiger, women are not fully realized human beings. This may indicate he can be convinced that he himself is not fully realized and needs guidance from an authority. He may need to replace the authority of his father. He needs to believe in the credibility of whever is changing him or he won't change. I doubt if a figure like that is close to him- yet. But watch for a move from a self-help cult with control of one of the greatest fortunes on the planet, very comfortable in new york. new york is a healer. wounds fester in LA; but they heal in new york- if they can heal.

[FantasticFourFan]

10:42 PM on 02/28/2010

Tiger needs to join the church of the Flying Spagetti Monster! He will find redemption in his noodely goodness!

[hyjanks]

09:14 PM on 03/02/2010

Yeah. I hear carbo-loading will help a person drive a golfball a few meters further.

[stylembe]

09:07 PM on 02/28/2010

Brit Hume should judge the 2010 Hunky Jesus Contest at Delores park in San Francisco, here's last year's winner,

http://stylembe.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/j

[Olaugh]

08:53 PM on 02/28/2010

Thirty odd years ago my sister, a very devout Christian, spent a year in Japan. She regularly spoke of her faith with her host father, a Buddhist. After weeks of adolescent preaching, he turned to her and said, "Religion is like a mountain, you are on one face and I am on another but the summit is the same." Hume's attitude concerning the superiority of Christianity is arrogant as my sister's (she of course is much older and wiser now, unlike Hume). For people who believe in a divine being or beings it is the ultimate act of hubris to believe that we can know the true nature of the divine or the ultimate Truth. We are finite beings and all of the scriptures ever written were written, copied, edited, and translated by other finite beings. For people who do not believe in the divine but cling to only that which can be sensed, experienced, or computed, attitudes like Hume's are even more arrogant. I wish Hume would embrace the virtue of humility.

[gnomic]

06:43 PM on 02/28/2010

Hume would be better if he wasn't a right wing lapdog? What's his point?

[wayoutleft]

11:17 PM on 02/28/2010

Hume and other Christians say volumes about themselves when they insist Tiger needs to be saved from sex; but are blind that any need be saved from greed or oppression of the poor. They call it Babbitry. Nobel prize winner Sinclair Lewis studied it here and flaubert studied it in france.

[southingtonian]

06:57 AM on 03/01/2010

Britt might try following his own advice and follow the instructions of Jesus. With what judgement you judge you shall be judged.

[Dissident Dexter]

06:29 PM on 02/28/2010

the only reason tiger would be better off as an xtian is that he would be harder to find in that huge pool of hypocrites.

[DemoGoddes]

06:08 PM on 02/28/2010

I'd say that Hume would be better off if he were Buddhist, but you do have to work at it.

As Sarah Silverman says, "Jesus is magic." So apparently you just say his name and you are magically cured of all sinful impulses. Remember how well it worked for Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Baker (husband of Tammy Fay), Ted Haggerd, and countless other Christians who followed Jesus and never strayed. For the irony-challenged, THAT was irony.

Full disclosure. I'm an Episcopalian. My sister is Buddhist.

Maybe if people stopped paying Hume to talk, he would stop.

[Liberty1967]

05:33 PM on 02/28/2010

An example of the profound arrogance of some Christians. I hope that those Christians who are respectful of the religions of others will speak up to this gross insult to Buddhists. I also wonder at this being considered journalism? Mr. Hume has just shown us that, at least in matters of religion, his objectivity cannot be trusted.

[hyjanks]

09:17 PM on 03/02/2010

Not likely to happen. Jesus is currently the top critter of gods with Allah coming in a close and closing second.
When you're in the driver seat of a Porsche, you're no likely to give the steering wheel to someone of inferior driving ability.

[GeoNorth]

03:22 PM on 02/28/2010

It's easier for Christians to worship Jesus than to follow his teachings.