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WASHINGTON -- After urging Tiger Woods to accept the "forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith" -- and comparing Buddhism unfavorably to that hope -- journalist Brit Hume insisted he was not proselytizing. In this, he is wrong. His words exemplify proselytization.
For this, Hume has been savaged. Media critic Tom Shales put him in the category of a "sanctimonious busybody" engaged in "telling people what religious beliefs they ought to have." Blogger Andrew Sullivan criticized Hume's "pure sectarianism" which helps abolish "the distinction between secular and religious discourse." MSNBC's David Shuster called Hume's religious advice "truly...
Narrowing our public discourse
Because proselytizing has become a dirty word, "proclaiming" seems more fitting when Good News is shared. And it is shared/proclaimed by those who are so grateful it was shared with them!
In the scathing response to Hume's good news,
the veneer of "Tolerance" is once again exposed as the "Intolerance" it really is.