4Jan/1010
Couple more Monday notes (Glen is in a ranting mood)
- Brit Hume is a prick. Not saying something that most people don't already know, but really? This guy is a monumental ass.
- How long can you imagine that the Taco Bell Drive Thru Diet commercials are going to last? "I wanted to lose weight, but I didn't want to stop eating fast food." Seriously people. This crap has to stop.
- The TCU and Boise State bands are flat awful. I know that the Wisconsin Band (and several other Big Ten bands) take it to a much more professional level,) but Jebus... this stuff is terrible.
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January 5th, 2010 - 01:19
Glen, apparently Brit Hume dared to make a comparative statement about two religions, but he was only repeating the argument made by Nietzsche (the German philosopher not the Packer’s MLB) and others regarding redemption and Buddhism. His mistake was in assuming that an audience where most people under 40 have been taught to unquestioningly accept all moral belief systems as having equal validity, could appreciate any point of philosophical distinction.
January 5th, 2010 - 07:18
I saw the excerpt on The Daily Show. I sure didn’t get that feeling, instead I got the feeling from Brit that Buddhism was bad and that it’s too bad Tiger isn’t Christian. WTF?
January 5th, 2010 - 10:55
Ah, the fun of the internet. I can’t recall how many times I’ve confused a former Packer player and a philosopher.
There was at least 2 weeks in the early 90′s when I thought Jean-Paul Sartre was the backup running back. Good times, good times.
Seriously, the fact that he would even suggest that people of a different religious belief would be better under Christianity just irritates me to the core, because no Christians cheat on their wives…. but thankfully they can point to the sky give a bump on the chest and say, “My bad,” and all is good. Ah, the concept of being born again is a catch all for any screw up in your life.
Yeah. I’m sure he was making a philosophical comment about the concept of religion and that was all.
After all, he’s on Fox. He’s smart and balanced.
January 5th, 2010 - 23:59
As an agnostic I can still see that Judeo-Christian principles concerning redemption have been adopted into AA and many successful drug treatment programs that are at least in principle non-religious. Redemption is definitely something that Woods needs, so I don’t see any problem with someone saying that Christianity is one way to go, especially someone like Hume who is speaking with some experience of personal tragedies.
… oh and I guess it wasn’t obvious, but Nietzsche and Nitschke are just different (mis)spellings of the same German name. I always thought Ray looked like a kindly college professor when he was off the field and wearing those horn-rimmed glasses!
January 6th, 2010 - 14:14
I can understand that Brit has come from personal tragedies, but I don’t believe that would make him a person that can speak about the way that a person should handle their personal life. People may have a hard time with my definition of what is a tragedy, but in my opinion, this certainly isn’t one. It is a personal issue between a husband and wife and kids. The only person that he has to answer to is himself and his family.
If someone wants to use god as a way to ask for forgiveness, that is their prerogative, but I think it is in very poor taste to suggest that you should change your philosophical and religious beliefs in order to obtain forgiveness from the masses.
January 7th, 2010 - 20:38
In case you’re interested, I think this will help you understand the comment better.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35103
January 7th, 2010 - 21:03
You’re seriously telling me to read Ann Coulter to get an unbiased viewpoint on the matter?
You can believe that I’m upset about this because it’s a conservative making the viewpoint, but that’s not the case. If someone was on ESPN stating that Christianity is the right path for redemption for Tiger Woods, I’d be just as bothered by it.
Some conservatives, and I don’t know if Ms. Coulter is one of them, want to make believe that liberals can’t stand Christianity, and while some liberals don’t believe in it (nor do I) that doesn’t mean that I don’t think that it doesn’t have a place for certain people (it just doesn’t have a place for me)… what I don’t like is when people try to tell people what they should do, especially when it comes to matters of faith.
If someone wants to make that decision on their own, that is their decision to make… and theirs alone.
January 7th, 2010 - 21:36
No one is forcing anything on anyone, nor did I say Coulter was unbiased. Also, could it be that Hume is saying this because he honestly wants to help Tiger? So what is the right path for redemption then? Someone has to be right and someone has to be wrong, and Hume obviously believes Christianity is right, so it only makes sense he would recommend it.
January 8th, 2010 - 13:12
I guess that is where the disconnect resides.
There IS NO right or wrong. People make good or bad decisions every single day and there is never one right decision to make if you want to correct an errors that you may have made.
No one HAS to be right. You can do whatever you feel is right to make peace with yourself.
Brit was well within his rights to voice his opinion, but I think that it is folly to believe that there is a right or wrong answer. His opinion was stated with such certainty that he believes it was the ONLY way for Tiger to be redeemed… and that just isn’t possible. No one can possible know what he should do… and in the end it is entirely up to him.
January 8th, 2010 - 14:25
You are definitely correct in saying that is where the disconnect resides.
To the Christian they believe in verses like John 14:6 which states Christ is the only way to salvation, and in the morality that the Bible teaches, and that ultimately it is peace with God which we need through repentance and forgiveness.
Others believe in relativism stating that there is no right and wrong, and everything is basically relative and up to the individual, and that the only peace that matters is that peace with ourselves.
I’m just thankful we live in a country where this dialogue can exist, and I pray that it continues.