Posted on 03/21/2012 5:51:35 AM PDT by IbJensen
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, March 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former president Jimmy Carter has been strongly identified as a "Born Again" Christian and as a liberal Democrat for nearly five decades. He is once more blending those roles as he promotes "his" latest book, his own study Bible.
The NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter contains the full text of the New International Version of the Bible and the former president’s prayers, reflections, and asides.
During his book tour to promote a study of the Scriptures, Carter mentioned he supports same-sex "marriage."
President Carter told Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, senior religion editor of The Huffington Post:
Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies. (Emphasis added.) However, he said he drew the line, “maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people."
"If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn't require them to," he said, adding his own church accepts "gay members on an equal basis."
When Raushenbush pressed him about whether he believed the Bible is God’s word, Carter answered, "the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them."
"There are many verses in the Bible that you could interpret very rigidly," Carter said, "and that makes you ultimately into a fundamentalist."
"Fundamentalists," he wrote in his 2005 book Our Endangered Values, tend "to demagogue emotional issues" and "are often angry and sometimes resort to verbal or even physical abuse against those who interfere with the implementation of their agenda." Carter applied this term to figures as divergent as the Ayatollah Khomeini and Pope John Paul II,toatheist neoconservatives and his fellow Baptists.
He contended the "mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists" contributes to the Islamic practice of female genital mutilation.
Carter wrote that he exchanged harsh words with the late Pope John Paul II during a state visit over what Carter classified as the Pope’s "perpetuation of the subservience of women." He added, "there was more harshness when we turned to the subject of 'liberation theology."
The former president, who has released recordings of the Sunday School classes he teaches and written previous books about the Bible, disassociated himself from the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000. He and former President Bill Clinton attempted to realign the Baptist faith in a more liberal direction by calling for a new Baptist convention in 2008. The formation of this new Baptist body, he wrote, constituted an "historic event for the Baptists in this country and perhaps for Christianity."
Carter, whose single term in office was marred by turbulence at home and abroad, has denounced those who disagree with his political views in strident terms.
Pro-lifers, Carter wrote, "do not extend their concern to the baby who is born." He instead suggested the nation support contraceptive sex education, taxpayer funding of international "family planning," and embryonic stem cell research.
In addition to nuptial vows, Carter encouraged the military to end the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy in 2007, and in 2010, he told the website Big Think it was time to /www.lifesitenews.com/news/jimmy-carter-weve-had-a-black-president-now-its-time-for-a-gay-one">elect "a gay person" president.
Mr. Jiminy Carter—Desperately trying to be relevant.
That stupid, anti-Semitic sonuvabitch needs to just croak off and make the world a better place. My tagline says it all.
Blessings from Jimmy carter at your next door marriage: a life long art of sado masochist abuse blessed behind chocolate covering tax payer paid for the manufacture of an eternal soul of poverty and hurt now bound to hell.
Congratulation Jimmy and all of the RINOs who have been intimidated by Satan, now using the only unforgiving means of pimping, ie. the church as a means to offend and reject the Holy Spirit.
Highway to hell? Nah, 100% garranteed ticket to hell.
(sarc off)
In the words of Ronaldus Magnus: “There he goes again.”
Need anything else be said. May those words haunt him for all eternity.
CC
He is the definition of a red neck antisemite racist biggoted liberal who has never stopped bleeding for a crack head. Jerry Springer should invite him to his show with his RINO girlfriend and explain a thing or two.
Everyone else is a demagogue, but not this self-important, pedantic, braying ass!
Matthew 7:22 comes to mind.
The Queen James Version.
Freegards
Jimmy Carter??? Os he still alive?/s
and he has his own bible.
What arrogance. He’s going to “correct” God’s inspired word?
What I want to know is who in their right mind would buy the Jimmy Carter Study Bible?
The “Eveready Bunny” of Idiocy continues to march on...for some unknown reason.
This is Carter’s MO. He claims the most radical leftist cant is really a traditional American value, or in this case consistent with Bible teaching.
It’s really quite disgusting, as he claims that abortion, homosexuality, illegal immigration, outlawing capital punishment, grabbing guns - are not only American, but that all who oppose these policies are un-American.
Carter is a creepy human being, a liar who concealed his leftism and got elected by pretending to be a moderate. Just like the present miscreant.
What is Zondervan thinking? They’ve made some pretty stupid moves in the past, but this takes the cake.
He gives Christians a bad name. I knew over 10 years ago he was not a Christian when I read an article in a magazine where he gave a Q&A type interview and he believed there were many pathways to heaven. In any cult or statement of believe, the heart is Jesus, who do they say Jesus is?
I believe this is a school of thought that examines how traditional ministries and digital media will converge. There’s several books out on the subject and I believe they have a website from which one can download the Holy Bible along with someone’s interpretation.
I would rather read and interpret the passages myself, or listen to a capable, traditional priest preach on the meaning of a particular Bible passage at mass.
“Server not found”, can you provide a working link?
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