Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women

Politics Daily ^ | July 20, 2009 | Ria Misra

[lonestar]

What is his religious preference these days? Jeremiah Wright's church?

Jimmy has peanuts for brains, IMO.

[ansel12]

Here is a video of him talking about the “elders” his international group that seems to want to challenge the bible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JcpNBiRcM&feature=player_embedded

[AnAmericanMother]

This used to be called "doing a Melba" - repeated "farewell performances" - after Dame Nellie Melba, the Australian opera singer who couldn't seem to say goodbye.

Unlike Jimmuh, however, she was good looking AND she could sing!

[don-o]

Worst. Former. President. Ever.

[elhombrelibre]

He’s betrayed everything else. Why not his religious faith too?

[elhombrelibre]

He lost it long ago. This is just the logical culmination in his long march, which includes betraying and denouncing everything that was ever good or helpful to him.

[elhombrelibre]

Then, he’d turn on them. It’s the holier-than-thou feeling he desires, not the humility and comfort of a religious faith.

[Heart of Georgia]

“He lost it long ago.”

That’s true enough, but now he seems to be equating the Southern Baptists to a cult.

Hopefully this will open the eyes of those who have defended his other idiocies. Seems like he’s been given a pass because of his affiliation with the Southern Baptists, his work with Habitat for Humanity, and possibly for the charitable works of his mother and sister.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, “How can someone like that be as bad as you’re making him out to be?”

[W.T. Door]

SBC “leaders” did not make a pronouncement, but in 2000 the PEOPLE OF THE CHURCHES of the Southern Baptist Convention passed statements on the Family and the Church by over 90 percent. [The SBC is not hierarchical like mainstream denominations, but is led bottom-up by its fellowship of churches].

Despite wording from the Bible such as “The husband and wife are of equal worth before God,” and “A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church” (i.e. willing to die for her), critics like Carter mischaracterize the statement on the Family as misogynist because it also stated from Ephesians that a wife is to submit graciously “to the servant leadership of her husband.”

As for the statement on the Church, Southern Baptists stated a consensus view found among the fellowship of churches that “While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.” Only 35 churches out of over 45,000 have a female pastor (less than one-tenth or one percent — which means that the so-called moderate or progressive congregations in the SBC aren’t hiring women as pastors).

Jimmy Carter has made his “departure” pronouncement at least twice before (1993, http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/7565,14-May-1993.PDF, and 2000, http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=6703) and also in his 2005 book, Our Endangered Values. However, he continues to worship and teach at Maranatha Baptist Church [in Plains, Ga.], which identifies itself as Southern Baptist — and has not hired a female pastor.

It’s merely hype to promote his latest views, and another chance for him to perpetuate a caricature of what Southern Baptists believe and practice using willing media to aid him.

[Sensei Ern]

The guy does this every year when they won’t consider anything he wants. Kick the bum out and keep on the fundamentalist straight and narrow.