Not meant to be critical of Mr. Carter, whom I revere. Still, this did not require deep thought.

And some people forget that religion is the glue that holds a good deal of bigotry in place.

It hasn't even occurred to many, so accepting of the ingrained lessons are they.

Spare the rod, sacrifice the son, etc.

He is truly a person who lives his ideals. I wish more Christians and people of faith would speak out against the wrongful use of religion and misinterpretation of the teachings. We have a strange brew of so-called "Christians" today who are anything but. They are twisting people's natural need and longing for something more for their own power.

Or, in teenspeak, No duh!

His teachings. I just wonder how long is it going to take to have the churches return. I listened this morning and he does not like the cruelty upon women. I wish President Carter well and hope his book touches many.

A comment he made 35 years ago affects this topic how?

himself, like all humans, is by his very *nature* sinful according to what his religion considers sin.

I am an atheist, but even I know that he is refering to Jesus's own comments as (supposedly) recorded in the New Testament!

Cast the first snark.



What was your point, anyway? I can't find any possible constructive justification.

obscure references are meaningless.

I get that you're trying to insult me in some way, but it's way off in the brambles somewhere.

I was a kid when he was President and very sad when he lost to that raygun. He was a much better President then is given credit and doesn't deserve the crap raygun followers and bagger types heaped on him.

President Carter is a great person.

He has kept his powder dry since 1981 for this "call to action".

I have seen what Bible "fury" does to women. Men profit greatly from it, but women suffer terribly.

I'm sure Carter remembers when Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum was at their prime in the mid & late '70s rallying against the Equal Rights Amendment. 40 years later the Republicans continue to use religion to keep women subjugated.

long live Jimmy Carter!

at the church he belonged to (belongs to?) in Plains, Georgia. It was a wonderful, wonderful trip. Got to visit the home where he grew up. It's out in "the sticks," one of the best homes out there at the time, yet simple. Jimmy ran around barefoot everywhere! Saw the general store his dad had, saw the high school he and his wife attended. Learned that he got up while it was still night and freezing cold to feed the animals, and do things around the farm with his dad.

He's a humble man. His shoes (I was in the front row as he spoke) were quite worn out! He spoke with no teleprompter. This man's brain is intact, a genius, quick thinking even at his advanced age. He's brave and afraid of no man. Though I don't agree with everything he says (I agree with 95% or so?), I think he's wonderful!

The Secret Service searched us all fully before being permitted to enter the church, and Rosalynd and Jimmy allow 1 photo to be taken with them. Sweet people.

There are also many other things to see around Plains. There's a nearby city which is a sort of hub for Habitat for Humanity, I think. There's also a gorgeous hotel from the 20s, which is said to be haunted. Lots of stuff.

I always wanted a tour of his woodworking shop since it's one of my hobbies.

reasons, however, the tourist guides will tell you all kinds, and you get to see the house where he lived from the inside (furnished and all so you can know what it was like to live in it), the farm, the general store, the outhouses (yes, they had outhouses most of their lives, though they later put in a rudimentary bathroom you'll get to see. You can go through the entire high school and sit in his classrooms and go to the assembly hall, etc. You can visit downtown Plains, and see Billy's shop, the bed and breakfast place, and there's a memorabilia store there with LOTS of authentic stuff. I bought some really ancient political buttons!

Hey, I just googled it for you and look, President Carter is STILL teaching Sunday school. http://www.nps.gov/jica/planyourvisit/sundayschoolschedule.htm

See him while you still can! Life is not eternal for any of us.

Before he does his Sunday school teaching, he will call out questions and people who are there (mostly to see him lol) answer, and he'll even point to people and ask them questions, he laughs, and then he'll start talking (without teleprompter, just from his head), and he will even bring in topics of political importance and justice issues while teaching Sunday school!!! At ours, he spoke of Latin America. And yes, he speaks of God.

He was definitely "pro life" (i.e. pro forced birth) when he ran for president. That is how he got Christian nutbag Michele Bachmann to work on his campaign, being a fellow "pro lifer" and all.

senior year at university (1977-78); so working on Carter's campaign was her last gasp at being a Dem. The Wikipedia entry also states that she became disillusioned with Carter because of, among other things, his 'support for legalized abortion'.

So I think that to regard Carter as a religious right-winger because the young Bachmann worked on his campaign, is like regarding Goldwater as a Dem because Hillary Clinton worked on his campaign.

According to Wikipedia, he is a pro lifer, citing his anti choice position stated while appearing on the Laura Ingraham Show in 2012.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

to the left of Ronald Reagan, everyone with an IQ below a fence post, and the folks with less compassion than Pol Pot. "

Tired of it. Sick and tired! He is a man of faith and compassion - more noble than many supposedly "religious" leaders I know of.

Awesome guy.

There's a lot of text in religions that is not exactly women friendly. Some oppressive governments and countries use these written words as their rules and regulations. There is a lot to fix out there.

he writes of how some selected scriptures are interpreted, “almost exclusively by powerful male leaders within the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and other faiths, to proclaim the lower status of women and girls”.

“This claim that women are inferior before God spreads to the secular world to justify gross and sustained acts of discrimination and violence against them,” writes Carter."

...to write a BOOK about it and to try to change it.

The man has actual, genuine MORALS (not the fakey kind most so-called "Christians" tout). Jimmy Carter considers women actual HUMAN BEINGS with full slate of human rights - full stop - right out the gate.

That's nice to see for a change. It's far, far too rare in the world. Especially among some of the so-called "Christians" (no offense to those of you who, like Carter, are REAL ones).

daily we see cases in our own country that prove it over and over. Like this one from the news today:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/25/tenn-christian-school-bans-8-year-old-girl-because-her-tomboy-looks-arent-biblical/

The bible is being used to abuse EVERYONE not in the 1%.

Especially minorities, women, and children though.

Will be used as an excuse for genital mutilation?