Jimmy Carter: Christianity Mistreats Women as Much as Islam

Breitbart's Big Government ^ | June 30, 2013 | Dr. Susan Berry

[2ndDivisionVet]

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Former President Jimmy Carter said on June 28 that both Christian and Islamic religious leaders share the blame for mistreating women across the world.

During an international conference on women and religion, Carter’s examples of religious authorities continuing doctrines of male superiority included the Catholic Church’s practice of banning women from the priesthood and some African cultures’ mutilation of the genitalia of young girls.

Describing these doctrines as theologically indefensible, Carter said they contribute to an environment in which political leaders passively accept violence against women, sex-trafficking, and inequality in the workplace.

“There is a great aversion among men leaders and some women leaders to admit that this is something that exists, that it’s serious and that it’s it troubling and should be addressed courageously,” Carter said at The Carter Center, the human rights organization he founded in 1982 after he left the White House.

Carter’s event, called Mobilizing Faith for Women, was attended by representatives from 15 countries. A goal of the conference was to emphasize to world leaders that religious institutions can be forces for equality, Carter said.

The nations participating at the Carter conference included Afghanistan, Botswana, Egypt, Iraq, Malaysia, Nigeria, Senegal, and the Sudan.

Carter said widespread oppression of women is found in both nations dominated by Islam as well as western countries where Christianity is the primary cultural influence.

Referring to St. Paul and his writings, Carter said, “Paul said there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, slaves or masters, man or woman.” However, he noted “gross abuses of religious texts in the Koran and in the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament. Singular verses can be extracted and extorted to assert the singular dominance of men.”

Carter was especially critical of the Roman Catholic Church......

[RightLady]

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, “Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.”

Even after her mastectomy she had the two biggest boobs in the world——Jimmeh and Billah,

[RightLady]

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, “Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.”

Even after her mastectomy she had the two biggest boobs in the world——Jimmeh and Billah,

[RightLady]

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, “Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.”

Even after her mastectomy she had the two biggest boobs in the world——Jimmeh and Billah,

[Billthedrill]

Two minutes. Dang it. :-(

[RightLady]

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, “Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.”

Even after her mascectomy she had the two biggest boobs in the world——Jimmeh and Billah,

[John S Mosby]

So, jimmah, how are thangs wit yo’ little woman— the absolute harridan that pushed for your nobel prize. The one that created the little twerp toot son of yours. Wasn’t THAT the result of YOUR Baptist mysoginism? Now you’re making up for it under the employ of the Saudi wahhabists? That is really a laugh. Wonder what the son thinks of this— “thanks Dad” for nothing.

Man is absolute loon. Photo with him and roslynn with Fidel says it all-—a tyrant, an enabler yet an incompetent.

[John S Mosby]

What bible is he reading from? The jewish matriarchal society doesn’t speak well for this claim biblically, jimmah. But it does speak well for islam’s utter abuse of women.

[Michael.SF.]

"I Have Never Killed Any One, But I Have Read Some Obituary Notices with Great Satisfaction" -- Clarence Darrow

[faithhopecharity]

He may someday go to h but his big mouth will live on.

[bray]

Hey Jimbo, when was the last time Christians stoned a women to death or committed mercy killing? What an idiot.

Pray for America to Wake Up

[exit82]

That joke is funny no matter how many times you post it.

[EricT.]

Makes me wonder what kind of Christians he grew up with.

[CodeToad]

I wonder what his Christian wife thinks about that.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

In his defense, Jimmy Carter is a lying sack of manure. I hope I get to piss on his grave before 2014 rolls around.

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[ROCKLOBSTER]

So Jimmuh,

Are you still beating your wife? How many women have you “honor-killed”?

[Tucker39]

Hey Jummah!
Don’t just flap your jaws about missused scriptures and anti-women discrimination; give us chapter and verse; name the denomination and site specific examples of OFFICIAL female abuse by Christian churches. Absent valid EVIDENCE and PROOF, you’re just another jive politician gender hustler, no different from and no more noble than RACE pimps like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton!

[Tucker39]

Oooops! Should be “....cite specific examples...”

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Will this guy EVER die?

Only the good die young.

[American in Israel]

Jimmy Carter you bear false witness. I pity you, you foolish man.

[WorkingClassFilth]

This man is a galactic grade imbecile. In fact, Christianity elevated the status of women and developed the foundations of women’s status in the modern West. Any other religious foundation would’ve left women in the state that they still are around the world where Christianity is a minority religion.