Well, I thought I'd see it all, but I was wrong. Of course, it's been a long time since anyone whose opinion I respect considered Fox News a serious source of news and analysis. Still this example boggles the mind. Here's Brit Hume, the network's senior news analyst, discussing the most important topic of our time:
And here's Brit Hume a few weeks ago on what many of us who don't watch Fox News consider the most important topic of our time:
In a different world, repeatedly misrepresenting the facts about a serious public policy issue would be cause for an employer to reexamine the status of a journalist's contract. In a different world, slanderous and distorted coverage of the climatology community would be sufficient to end a career in the news business. This isn't that world. I've come to accept that.
But just how far can one "news analyst" go before someone decides enough is enough? I'm not a Buddhist or a Christian, just someone who still calls himself a member of the journalism community. And I'm offended.
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While it depends on which particular flavor of buddhist he is, I'll assume its one of the majority that bases itself on Kharmic law and a cycle of Reincarnation, I know there are secularized sects who believe in neither and just feel that Buddha was a groovy philosopher, but lets assume he's not of that ilk.
Isn't the cycle of Buddhist/Hindu reincarnation a constant drama of redemption? every time you fall off the wagon your given a shitty life to get back on it right? so if your life is shitty, its presupposed that this is your step in the cycle to fix it and improve your next life.
On the flip side Christianity uses the concept of Original sin to try and convince new converts that they are inherently dirty and need to ask Jesus first for forgiveness for that sin (isn't he supposed to have died in the first place to wipe the slate clean?) and second perpetual redemption to proven the accumulation of more cooties, er sin..
The point is not what he believes (Tiger that is), but what everybody else believes. If Woods was a christian, he could cry on TV, say he prayed and god forgave him, why won't anybody else, and if he is suitably right-wing and non-black looking, lots will forgive him and he'll be yesterdays news. Just think of a lot of conservatives, and Bill Clinton.
Brit Hume has been a clueless hack for a very long time.
Great news! A few snarky emails show that all climatologists have been deceiving us with their nefarious plan to wean us off of fossil fuels. Now we can all go back to relentlessly using up resources which are sure to last at least a couple more decades.
Badger3K makes a good point, although I don't see the political or racial limitations -- in today's society, anyone regardless of race or political persuasion can earn public redemption via tearful confession, all the better if you can invoke God during the confession. It has worked for televangelists, for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and for philandering politicians from every part of the ideological spectrum. Ted Kennedy used a more subtle form of the public confessional and was for the most part granted immunity for the sins of his youth when he increased his Catholic devotion.
I saw Brit's comments when they first aired, and frankly given his dry wit I thought this was a classic Brit double entendre, commenting on the social acceptability of public confession and religious conversion as well as expressing his sincere personal beliefs.
Well, I am a Christian,and your journalistic community offends me. Stick to climate change where you may have some expertise,and your credentials may give your arguments legitimacy.
Religion is not your stong suit,and I hate watching someone making a fool of himself. It's something I learned in religion class.
@Donato
The journalistic community offends you?
Religion class was where you learned to hate watching someone make a fool of himself?
@Donato
What did you "learn" in religion class exactly? Maybe you learned how transubstantiation works, or maybe how to determine if something was a miracle? It most definitely was not communication skills.
I think it shows how professional your "science" is that you're taking about a news anchor.
You can't say he's meaningless and then make a fool of yourself by writing about him on your "science" blog.
I bet suppressing detractors and picking whichever data supports your desired conclusion (that time honored scientific tradition of letting the science follow personal desires) is what we should really be aspiring to.
I can only think of one thing when I read your "science":
CLIMATEGATE CLIMATEGATE CLIMATEGATE CLIMATEGATE CLIMATEGATE CLIMATEGATE CLIMATEGATE CLIMATEGATE CLIMATEGATE CLIMATEGATE
By the way is Buddhism's greatness the reason that all of Asia is mired in poverty and would have never merged from a primitive tribal land of warlords had not it been for Christianity and its western civilization and its equality, democracy and MEDICAL EQUIPMENT WE GIVE THEM FOR FREE!
Your stupid ass blog and all these commentors wouldn't have computers to spread your stupidity if Jesus hadn't come and stopped man from living like beasts with strongmen and women with no rights...THATS ALL THANKS TO JESUS YOU CLUELESS FOOLS!
MONKS BUILT THE FIRST MODERN UNIVERSITIES!
CATHOLIC PRIESTS TRANSLATED THE DARMA INTO JAPANESE WHICH LED TO THE CREATION OF SHINTO BUDDHISM!
THERE WILL BE MORE CATHOLICS IN CHINA THAN IN AMERICA SOON!
THERE WILL BE MORE CHRISTIANS IN ASIA THAN BUDDHISTS WITHIN FIFTY YEARS UNLESS THE TRENDS CHANGE DRASTICALLY!
LEARN WHAT SCIENCE REALLY IS INSTEAD OF JUST CREATING THE MARKETING HYPE AROUND IT AND BITCHING ABOUT YOUR OWN OPINIONS AND CALLING IT SCIENCE!
By the way if we ever do move to a Darwinian way of life, a "scientific" way of life, I think those grapes will be sour in your mouth.
I can tell by your picture that you're no alpha male and would be raped by dominant men in an animalistic living situation...you would be denied a mate because you're fat.
I can tell by your lazy body that you're not one of those guys who goes nuts at the gym or at a man's job every day and thus would be loppy and quickly submitted to the dominate male or, more likely, killed off for being weak.
You guys seem completely out of touch with reality.
DO you really have no knowledge of God other than that, in your mind, he's synonymous with pop public opinion?
A sleezy talk show host saying "no one can judge Tiger" is what "Christ's redemption" means to you?
I would tend to agree with Donato that you all need to learn a lot more about your subject before you become critics on it.
I don't get in to specifically criticizing MMGW because I don't know enough about that...I leave that to the people who are willing to spend their time to debunk it.
Besides you all just chase a lesser god after you give up on the real One...and then you pretend your silly religions like secularism and environmentalism are something better than religion...it's a joke and doesn't stand up to legitimate academic inquiry (and no Lynn just because someone is a "professor" with tenure at a "university" or published in a "scientific" magazine does not automatically mean that what they are practicing is legitimate academic inquiry).
I can't tell if this guy is joking or what. Parts of it are pretty funny. Colbert could use some of it.
I'm sorry but this comment board is just fraught with errors...
Bill Clinton a serious Christian? HAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clinton was Christian because you couldn't get elected Governor in Arkansas in the 80's unless you were.
He clearly did not take his religion seriously judging by how he acted. You might say "but serious Christians are more sinful than non Christians a lot of times" and you would be completely right...Christianity prescribes proper morality based on Christ's perfect message (infinitely disseminated)...that doesn't mean Buddha couldn't have followed proper morality.
Read the last book of Chronicles of Narnia...a Christian or secularist leftist humanist modernist relativist progressive who follows Satan in their lives will go to hell, a Muslim or Buddhist who follows God will go to heaven.
And besides that's beyond the point because all of his professed positions have been clearly secularist.
His views against being religious like "other people" (read conservative/orthodox) are actually quite nuanced.
Oh, Jacob. You are just precious.
"SHINTO BUDDHISM!" Repeated for effect.