Two Views on Brit Hume’s Tiger Woods Comment

I know it’s supposed to be impolitic to say outloud on TV that you think that your religion is better than the other guy’s… but I can’t help but think that this is a tempest in a teapot.

I mean, other than “hey, look, Britt Hume is a raging asshole.” Which is, you know, pretty clear anyway.

But I wonder why it is that millions of people can go to church every week, SAY THAT SAME THING in church, but somehow play this game of ‘let’s all pretend that nobody ever says that’ when you’re not in your prayer meeting.

I think this whole code of “don’t talk about how your religion is better” actually enforces a code of silence about how despicable the views ARE. I think folks SHOULD be embarrassed that they hold the view that their friends and neighbors are damned because they hold a different philosophy. I think it causes walls between religions. I think it puts enforced polite silence in place of dialog.

I think it buys some short-term peace with the price of long-term divisions.

I think that if EVERYONE had to say every bad thing their church teaches RIGHT to their friends, neighbors, family and co-workers… a lot of those bad things would get openly frowned-upon and dropped from the curriculum.

Keeping them quiet hurts us as a society.

Let Britt spout his shit. Get it out there. Let’s discuss it.

The satire they did last night of Hume’s Christian persecution complex was also excellent. 😉

The problem, Siamang, is who is doing it: a purported newsman on a purported news show. Airing his comments, not to mention interviewing him again on their news network the next day – would show that “Fair and Balanced” is, in fact, a nod-and-wink joke.

If Fox does some sort of faith roundtable with Brit Hume, a Buddhist, an atheist, a Muslim, etc. – then I’ll eat my words. (I’m not holding my breath.) Fox News exists solely to portray a sociopolitical agenda that, for the most part, exists only in the minds of its viewers.

Siamang, the reason the rule ‘don’t talk about your religion’ came into being was simple. We began to have a pluralistic society.

In our not so distant past, people created their communities based on ethnicity and religion. Once they began to integrate, it became necessary to keep quiet about their faith. The reason is simple, religious dogma has no logical defense, so they knew they had to keep it quiet. If they turned religion into a ‘private matter’ then no one could challenge them on the oddities of their dogma.

Look back at the mistrust between Protestants and Catholics. These people used to wage wars against each other, but today they hold hands and sing kumbaya together. Were even seeing the beginnings of a merger between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. People are setting aside core dogmatic beliefs in favor of some nebulous ‘god’ that unities them all.

That also explains the rapid rise of secularism. Even the squishy pseudo-deism that many religious leaders today pedal needs to look embarrassed next to secularism.

Its no coincidence that all these changes are happening at the same time that the whole world is being connected by the internet. Loony dogmas like transubstantiation, or praying 5 times daily towards a black rock only seem normal when everyone else is doing it. Once you look around the room and see everyone staring, your’e bound to quit doing it.

Well if Geebus died for my sins, then I can go out and commit any Damn sin I want, and by kissing Geebus’s ass I can be forgiven!!! What a COP-OUT! No responsibility taken HERE!!!!!!!!!

Oral Roberts is dead. Jerry Falwell is dead. Why isn’t that giant sac of pus Robertson dead? Clearly there’s no god, or he would have destroyed Robertson long ago.

My first thought was this statement came as an ironic comment from some atheist saying, “all TW needs do is convert to christianity like some a-hole convict and he can skate-free, the funies will believe anything”.
Unfortunately, Muggle’s last comment resonant strongly with me. In addition, if anyone had any illusions that Fox was any different that the CBN this should put those doubts to rest.

Imagine for a moment if Hume had said the exact same thing about a Jew. He would be off the air in a heartbeat. Bud, Buddhism is one of them weird, diffrunt religions, so this is OK.

There’s a kickass Twilight Zone in which Robert Redford plays Death in the guise of a wounded policeman. His target is an old woman who lives in a condemned tenement, and she’s convinced that Death wants to get inside. She (apprehensively) lets in the wounded policeman, and their dialogue about her fear of dying, of leaving the tenement, of change, is just amazingly poignant.
When she finally takes his hand (and dies), she looks back on her now-dead body, and wonders what all the fuss was about.
In my view, this is how it is with religion: it’s an empty husk that you carry around with you all your life. Putting it down, facing the fear of what to do (and think) next, is terrifying. But once done, you look back and wonder what the fuss was all about…