Stupid Quote of the Day: Mind your own business (and religion), Brit Hume

In the pantheon of people who don’t mind their own business and insist on giving other advice that not only isn’t theirs to give, but that is actually as stupid and insipid as advice gets, an honorary mention will have to be given to Fox News’s Brit Hume, who had these pearls of wisdom to share on the subject of the Tiger Woods affair(… s):

‘Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Whether he can recover as a person, I think, is a very open question, and it’s a tragic situation. He’s lost his family; it’s not clear to me whether he’ll be able to have a relationship with his children, but the Tiger Woods that emerges, once the news value dies out of this scandal; the extent to which he can recover, it seems to me, depends on his faith. He’s 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. So, my message to Tiger would be, “Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world”.’

Okay. Disregarding the fact that religion has absolutely fuck-all to do with anything with what Tiger Woods did in cheating on his wife with [enter number here] women, or that Christianity is a religion of “forgiveness and redemption” as much as Islam is a religion of “love and peace”, or that his reasoning for why Tiger should convert to Christianity isn’t about how it’s the One True Faith^TM, but simply because it’s more comfortable, which isn’t even an argument at all, or that it’s simply none of his freaking business what religion Tiger follows – let’s just end with the marvelous point made by Ed Brayton as he counters Hume’s staggering hypocrisy regarding Christianity and cheating on one’s spouse:

Maybe if Tiger converts to Christianity, he'll change from cocktail waitresses to hookers like Jimmy Swaggart. Or church secretaries, like Jim Bakker. Or gay prostitutes, like Ted Haggard. Or maybe he'll wait until his wife is in the hospital with cancer to divorce her while cheating with a staffer, like Newt Gingrich.

The only way Tiger Woods will “forgiveness and redemption” is by actually showing some genuine remorse for his actions and trying to clean the huge mess he made. (And, may I add, never to do it again. As if this needed mentioning.) Turning towards another faith won’t do jack shit.