Conservative journalist to Tiger Woods: Convert!

It doesn’t get much weirder than this. On Sunday, Fox News analyst Brit Hume — one of the most prominent journalists in the conservative world — offered golfer Tiger Woods some unsolicited advice.

Convert.

“He’s said to be a buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that’s offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be, ‘Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.'”

Woods, of course, is reeling from a scandal involving his involvement with a number of women who aren’t his wife.

But Hume’s proposal, issued during a prominent Sunday morning Fox public affairs program, is frankly bizarre.

For starters, Hume’s portrayal of Buddhism as lacking “forgiveness and redemption” is, well, factually wrong.

I’m tempted to use words like ignorant, or even bigoted.

This bizarro culture-war moment comes on the heels of sex-abuse scandals involving a number of prominent Christian conservatives.

Not to mention the news last week that family-values champion Karl Rove is divorcing his wife.

It’s also worth noting that the divorce rate in the United States is roughly twice that of Japan, a largely Buddhist nation.

Singapore, another strongly Buddhist nation, has a divorce rate roughly a quarter that of the U.S.

Tiger Woods seems to have big problems in his life. His faith isn’t one of them. Your thoughts?