I'm kind of amused by the conservative blowhard blowback over Brit Hume's advice to Tiger Woods (to abandon Buddhism and become a Christian so he can be redeemed). Columnists like Ann Coulter and somebody named Brent Bozell III (Whoever he is) spent a total of about 50 ranting paragraphs talking about how "apoplectic" all the liberals are getitng over Hume's comment, and why they're so laughable for doing so.
Their smug (as always) and vaguely threatening (as the ones with all the right answers) tone reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw one time, that had a picture of a Christian "fish" symbol (with big frickin' TEETH) about to devour one of those "fish with legs/Darwin" symbols. The line was, "Survival of the Saved." Now I don't know what kind of Christianity these people were raised with, but it's not the one I grew up with (where the sisters politely referred to "our non-Catholic friends"). Heck, these people are probably among the ones I used to hear on the low power radio station down the hall in Portage, Indiana, talking about how Catholics are devil-worshipping anti-Christs.
Actually, the finest comment I saw on the subject came from Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune, who thoughtfully commented, "Try this: 'Brit, turn to secular humanism and you can offer troubled people advice grounded in useful reality.'”
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