I dont know Brit Hume or for that matter Tiger Woods. What I mean is that I have never met them. However both Tiger Woods and Brit Hume are in the news and for completely different reasons. TW for his infidelity and Brit Hume for his remarks on Fox on 3rd January about TW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgMr_Zc3OtA&feature=player_embedded
On "Fox News Sunday," Hume — the former leader of Fox News' political reporting and host of "Special Report" who now serves as an analyst for the network — said that Woods' recovery "depends on his faith."He was asked whether Tiger Woods would recover from the scandal that has cost him several lucrative endorsements. Brit Hume replied, “Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer.” But he didn’t stop there (as Chuck Colson comments on Breakpoint) —and in the process ignited a controversy that says more about his critics than it does about Hume or what he had to say. Hume said the “open question” is “whether [Woods] can recover as a person.” Hume pointed out that Woods had “lost his family” and that his future relationship with his children is unclear."The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith," Hume said. "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."
From the attacks that I have seen in Media (print and online) on Brit after this remark, speak more of intolerance than tolerance.
Indian Author Vishal Mangalwadi in his most recent book 'Truth and Transformation ' shares his experience on freedom of speech when he and his wife Ruth were boarding a plane to fly from Florida to Minnesota. This was Christmas time and therefore the Flight attendant greeted them with the customary " Happy Holidays", to which Vishal asked her 'are you not allowed to say Merry Christmas? to which she replied that they have to say Happy Holidays. Vishal found this amazing as his understanding was that America was tolerant_the land of the free and home of the brave. The world actually respects the American forefathers for saying, ' Give me liberty or give me death.' And here they were and they cannot wish Merry Christmas to each other. 'If you surrender your heritage of Freedom, how can you ask the people in Afghanistan or Iraq to stand up for their liberty? Vishal presses on. Because religious terms such as Christmas offends liberals, should Americans then surrender their freedom or teach the liberals some tolerance?
Dr. Don Carson, Research Professor of New Testament has to say the below about Tolerance. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PVJlnvVeSM)
“Twenty five years ago ‘tolerance’ was understood to be a virtue that operated something like this: If I hold strong views on any particular subject I am nevertheless judged to be ‘tolerant’ if I think that your views are bad, immoral, improper, even disgusting, wicked or stupid, but still insist you have the right to defend them. In other words, a ‘tolerant’ person puts up with somebody else’s views and insists they have the right to hold them even while – in the vigorous arena of debate – we might disagree fundamentally on who is right or who is wrong. Such a person is a ‘tolerant’ person.
But nowadays, that is not what ‘tolerance’ means. Now ‘tolerance’ means that you don’t hold that anybody is right or wrong. Everybody is equally right or wrong. Nobody is more right than another person. If you don’t hold that then you are ‘intolerant.’ Now that is a huge shift … Under this new definition of ‘tolerance’ I don’t even know what ‘tolerance’ means because in the old view of ‘tolerance’ you had to disagree with someone before you could actually tolerate them. How do you say ‘Oh, yes, you are entirely right – I tolerate you?’ … This new ‘tolerance’ actually becomes extremely intolerant of anybody who does not buy into this view of ‘tolerance’ because if you actually come right out and say that some view is wrong or silly or foolish or indefensible or even questionable, then you are judged to be ‘intolerant.’ Thus, in the name of this newfangled tolerance it turns out, at profoundly deep levels, to be the most intolerant thing of all!”
So did Brit Hume have the right to say what he did? Absolutely he did. Did he say the right thing? Thats for you to investigate and find out. From following Jesus Christ for the past 20 years, and from my personal experience on forgiveness I know he did. In a way, everyone answers the question that Jesus posed his followers 2000 years back and quoted in Matthews Ch 16 Vs 15.."But who do you say that I am?"
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