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Brit Hume urges Tiger Woods to consider Christianity (Video)

By April MacIntyre Jan 4, 2010, 17:07 GMT

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On Sunday morning (Jan. 3), Chris Wallace asked the Fox New Sunday roundtable, which included Bill Kristol and network news senior political analyst Brit Hume, to name their 2010 sports predictions, and the chatter veered into the Tiger Woods scandal.

Hume urged Tiger to shed his Buddhism for Christianity to find peace after his dramatic personal scandal which publicly unfolded from the Thanksgiving holiday.

The Monday morning quarterback political blogging over the remarks have run from support of Hume's personal assessment to outrage over the network's judgement for allowing it.

Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit wrote: "It used to be that liberals didn’t want you to mention Christ in schools. Then they banned Christ from Christmas concerts and public squares. Now they are demanding that we not talk about Christianity in public."

The remarks that Hume offered to Tiger were comparative on how Woods might benefit from a conversion. Hume said, "...the extent which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith. He is 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. My message to Tiger would, 'Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world."

Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic had little patience for Fox's pundits blurring the secular news show with one promoting a religion. Sullivan blogged, "...their politics is their religion and their religion is their politics. When they do so, both are corrupted."