Leftist Reporters: Religious Faith Must Be Kept Hidden

Tiger Woods at 2004 PGA Championship in Kohler, Wisconsin (Photo credit: CJ Stumpf)

If you’re like me, you often have this conversation with yourself about liberals: Can anyone really be that ignorant…or do they know better and simply don’t care?

So this question arose in my mind for the Nth time as I heard about the Leftist hysteria and teeth-gnashing over Brit Hume’s comment on Sunday that, in the wake of Tiger Woods‘ moral failure and life implosion, perhaps Woods might try Christianity as a solution to get his life together.

Well, for one thing, whatever Woods is placing his faith in right now (Buddhism?) either isn’t working, or he isn’t really applying it to his life.  And if he isn’t applying it to his life, one has to wonder what claiming allegiance to it in the first place is worth.  If something you claim to adhere to isn’t worth applying to your everyday life, is it worth making a claim to at all?

There was a time when I placed my faith in me, in my own intellect, my own will and my own ability. Outwardly, it might have appeared to be a good move, since I was what some describe as a “barn burner” who did well and was promoted fast.  But inside I was coming apart at the seams, and eventually my drinking and debauched way of life began to show it.  Eventually I imploded…and it was then that God finally got my attention.

My life has been immeasurably, 10,000% better ever since.  I wasn’t remotely as successful as Tiger Woods, but it looks like his personal life is deep in the hurt locker right now, and I can definitely relate to that.  It sure wouldn’t hurt Tiger to take a look at the Christian faith.

But what’s interesting about Hume’s comment is how the “mainstream” media came unglued.  Good grief, you’d think Hume had said something like, “We should force Tiger to convert!”  They act as if religious faith is something you should be ashamed of, something you should keep secret and out of sight, something you shouldn’t bother anyone with in the “real world.”

I have to say, if a religious belief is worth having in the first place, it’s worth applying to every area of your life.  And if you’ve found something that’s made a life-changing difference for you, doesn’t it stand to reason that you would want to tell people about it?

If you discovered a weight loss product that let you eat all you wanted of what you wanted, yet helped you maintain the perfect weight…do you think you’d be ashamed to tell people about it?  If you discovered a stain remover that would get ANY stain out of clothing with ease, don’t you think other people might want to know about it?  If you found a really great restaurant that made fantastic food, would you think it “diminished” the restaurant to tell others about it?

If you’re like me, you really have to wonder with asinine reasoning like this from David Schuster, how could he get a job more complicated than picking up ice cream wrappers off the ground in the park?

Which brings me back around to that other conclusion I wrestle with: he can’t really be that obtuse, so he must just loathe authentic Christianity.  It’s not like such a thing would be hard to imagine of a “mainstream” media personality, would it?

Brit Hume and Bill O’Reilly

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