Everyone is entitled to their belief system. Whether you are a Christian, Buddhist, or other faith, you have the right to believe what you want. We as a society have decided that. But when a news commentator, like Brit Hume evangelizes to Tiger Woods to convert to Christianity on a news show, it crosses a line.
It shows that he lacks a fundamental understanding of how faith works. Brit may be a Christian, believing in all the tenants of the faith, but Tiger Woods is not. A professed Buddhist, he does not believe in Jesus as the Messiah. It’s not that Tiger is given a choice between Christianity and Buddhism, it’s a matter of faith and belief. Just like Brit Hume does not believe in Thor or Muhammad, Tiger does not believe in the divinity of Jesus. To say “turn to the Christian faith” would be like a Muslim turning to Brit Hume and saying “turn to Islam”. It’s not something one easily does because the belief in the fundamental tenants are not there to support faith needed to take up a new religious world view.
Much like Pascel’s Wager, Brit Hume is assuming that there are only two choices, Christianity and “Not Christianity”. That is not the way the world works. Tiger may convert to Christianity (or any other religion) as a result of his troubling times, but that will be after a long road of spiritual exploration, not some newscaster saying turn to Christianity. To believe otherwise is just plain ignorance.