VERY cool! Except he left out the Coasties. Semper Paratus!

What he said was that Buddism does not have a forgiveness tradition. Maybe that can be read as an accusation of inadequacy, and I don't know enough about Buddhism to know if it's true or not. If it's true, then Mr. Hume simply expressed a fact and offered an alternative.

Gordon, I appreciate your responses and effort at dialogue.

Look, if you had a terrible event happen to you (as Brit Hume did), and you found comfort in something, whatever that might be (as Brit Hume found comfort in his Christian faith), then what the heck is wrong with offering that same comfort to someone else? Christianity does have a forgiveness aspect as an integral part that is not present in other faiths. Of course, Tiger Woods needs the forgiveness of his wife, but he might not get it. Christians believe that God forgives everything, and sometimes that can make all the difference in how an individual deals with adversity. There's really no need to get all snarky about Brit Hume's suggestion, which was made, as far as I could tell from watching it, in a spirit of goodwill and with all sincerity.