Posted on 06/30/2013 4:06:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
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......
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Obama is way worse but Jimmy has him beat with endurance and a big head start, just give Obama time tho....
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” - Abraham Lincoln
I don't know. Slick Willie keeps doing all he can to make Hillary president.
If the choice is between Jimmy spouting off about this, that & the other, and having Hillary as President....
No contest!
"So Pres. Carter, what do you think about the possibility of life on Mars?
...the Cubs winning the World Series?
...mayonnaise or salad dressing on a bologna sandwich?
Hey Jimmah, have you stopped beating your wife yet?
“”was attended by representatives from 15 countries””
These 15 countries have the money available to send representatives all the way to Atlanta, GA to listen to this slobbering old fool? Good grief!! I wouldn’t travel the 30 miles or so down the interstate to see him.
OMG!!!! This guy is full of it!!!
EVIDENCE JIMMY CARTER ABANDONED THE SHAH
http://www.rescueattempt.com/id24.html
I suppose I should feel sorry for that poor tortured old soul. You know he's pissed that obama's taking his crown.
In the circles that matter most to him, he was epic. Was.
Now, he has lost to Reagan and then to obama, and has lived long enough to have felt the sting of both.
He’s not thinking he is just trying to stay relevant.
He is a filthy leftist hater. A real bigot, too.
Yeah Jimmy, not making women priests is right up there with cutting off heads, murdering gays, religious despotism, suicide bombers, etc.
Jimmy Carter is a card carrying moron as well as living proof that only the good die young.
Just the antisemitic kind that Jimmy preaches.
Hate filled, incompetent man.
Just one honest look at any islamic country's treatment of women compared to the West is a no brainer....slavery and freedom....yep the same to liberals.
I am so sick of the propaganda BS concerning islam. It is criminal in how dangerous it is.
I begin to wonder at the reasoning behind liberal men supporting the islamic lies....what is their goal? Could it be they themselves want women under thumb and the power that would come having all women in their family be their slaves?
Seriously, WHAT IS THEIR GOAL OR END GAME FOR AMERICA with these lies and propaganda for islam? That really needs answering.
Perhaps Mr. Carter should BECOME a Roman Catholic before criticizing it so blithely. The history of women "priests" in the early church is extremely blurry, and has Mr. Carter ever heard of the Virgin Mary, whose prominent place in the theology and practice of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages tremendously raised the status of women during that era. Medieval women had many right and privileges in society that were lost at the Reformation. Even staunch protestants admit as much.
Jimmy Carter mistreats women, puppies and kittens.
Which reformation?
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