Although in a July column in The Observer Carter admits to "not having training in religion or theology," in his address to the PWR Carter appeals to his authority as someone who has "taught Bible lessons for more than 65 years."Posted on 12/12/2009 1:43:30 PM PST by wagglebee
MELBOURNE, December 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an address to a gathering sponsored by the World Parliament of Religions (PWR) last Friday, former US President Jimmy Carter has once again blamed traditional religion, particularly Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics, for "creating an environment where violations against women are justified."
It is a theme that Carter has successfully used to garner media attention for several years.
Although in a July column in The Observer Carter admits to "not having training in religion or theology," in his address to the PWR Carter appeals to his authority as someone who has "taught Bible lessons for more than 65 years."
In opposition to the vast majority of authentic scholars and historians, Carter asserted: "It's clear that during the early Christian era women served as deacons, priests, bishops, apostles, teachers and prophets." He added: "It wasn't until the 4th century or the 3rd at the earliest that dominant Christian leaders, all men, twisted and distorted Holy Scriptures to perpetuate their ascendant position within the religious hierarchy."
Contrary to the theorizing of Carter, Pope John Paul II taught, "The Lord Jesus chose men to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry." He added: "the Church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself. For this reason the ordination of women is not possible." (Catechism of the Catholic Church; 1577)
Carter singled out the Southern Baptist Convention and Roman Catholic Church, claiming that they "view that the Almighty considers women to be inferior to men." However, both Christian faiths hold to the Scriptural truth that God created men and women equal.
Carter suggests that only in permitting women to become priests and pastors could male religious leaders choose to interpret teachings to exalt rather than subjugate women. "They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter, subjugation," he said.
"Their continuing choice provides a foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the world," said Carter. Carter goes on to list horrific violations against women such as rape, genital mutilation, abortion of female embryos and spousal battery.
Responding to Carter's nearly identical points in July, John Paul Meenan, Professor of Theology at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy in Barry's Bay, Ontario characterized Carter's points as "ridiculous," noting that there was no evidence of the ordination of women in the early Church.
Moreover, Meenan stressed that historically Christianity ought to be credited for promoting the dignity of women. "It is the Church that invariably improved the lot of women in the lands that were converted and Christianized," he said.
He’s got a beard, probably Amish.
Agree 100%, but they're kicking themselves for playing it safe and betting on a Carter reelection. If they had hit us in mid 1980, they had at least a 50/50 chance of taking the rest of Europe.
I’d piss on Jimmah’s grave but he ain’t worth it.
Reagan changed everything, by the mid 80s he had totally changed the odds for Soviet success in Europe.
It was very exciting and nerve racking times for many of us, but he succeeded beyond our wildest dreams, this nation should have an annual day of honor for President Reagan destroying the Soviet Union, to me it equals any accomplishment of any other President, and it came from his will, it was not the result of a massive war where whoever is in the chair gets the glory, this was all Reagan and his vision, and his will, and his life’s work, and his self, steering it to successful completion.
Reagan was a visionary, only George Washington and Ronald Reagan sit in those two top seats of American Presidents.
And the Ayatollah Carter’s favorite religion is exempted from critique once again.
Agree 100%
Excellent post.
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Hopefully there is no one who takes Jimmy seriously any more...
Yeah, the Baptist with the AK-47, and the poor Catholic laying on the ground.
The soviets were so astonished by how fast Carter was destroying the American military that some junior plans officers started informal planning for a general nuclear war against the US in the early 1980s. Of course, they couldn't believe than an American senator would seek KGB help in defeating Reagan in the 1980 election until Teddy Kennedy did exactly that.
The thinking was that Carter would so physically and morally weaken America by 1982/1983 that nuking a city or two would bring about unconditional surrender. The soviets had so much invested in the cowardice and evil of Jimmah Carter that they genuinely feared Reagan. And rightly so. Reagan saved us from the greatest danger we've faced since the Revolution.
Someone made the case for George Washington being "man of the millennium", since the whole world would look different if he hadn't existed. Certainly Ronald Reagan has earned the title of "man of the 20th century".
Yep, he has been off the deep end for a while now he is just
out sight.
Remember when he discussed nuclear war with Amy
when she was about 10 or so?
Interestingly, in 1978 a NATO General and some advisors wrote a book that speculated just that thing was about to happen. General Sir John Hackett was an Australian-born British soldier and quite the vocal critic of the British government's poor funding of the British military.
The book is called The Third World War: August 1985, ISBN 0025471600
It's quite the interesting read, if a bit dated.
Old Jimmy is getting pretty uppity not that he is no longer the worst president in the last 100 years.
2nd Amendment ping. If this were to happen here our founding fathers wrote into the Bill of Rights a defense against such people and a government that looked the other way.
After he’s gone I would go to visit his grave, but it’d be just my luck to have to take a #2 stead of a #1.
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