Posted on 07/20/2009 12:49:32 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
After more than 60 years together, Jimmy Carter has announced himself at odds with the Southern Baptist Church -- and he's decided it's time they go their separate ways. Via Feministing, the former president called the decision "unavoidable" after church leaders prohibited women from being ordained and insisted women be "subservient to their husbands." Said Carter in an essay in The Age:
At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives, and continues to deny them fair access to education, health, employment and influence within their own communities.
And, later:
The truth is that male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter. Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the world.
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Jimmah, have you ever read this part of the scripture quote? Do you recall what Christ did for the church? Isn't this more than enough to make up for the man having the final say-so in family policy matters? Shouldn't you, if you are really a follower of Jesus, be reminding people inside of your congregation of how deeply and truely husbands should love, care for and cherish their wives, rather than taking the easy way out and walking?
Men and women think differently. There’s no argument on that score. Consequently, it is entirely understandable if God wants to set up the church around a patriarchal structure to achieve His ends for the church. Jimmy seems to be falling for the heresy or apostasy of arguing that since Jimmy doesn’t believe that women should be barred from leadership roles then God either couldn’t have meant it or should listen to Jimmy more.
As I read the scriptures, you’ve got to do some pretty mean mental backflips to put women in the leadership positions. In fact, I cannot see anywhere in the text where any of the apostles or Jesus supported women in the leadership role (as opposed to other critical roles within the church), and plenty of passages in which women in the leadership role are a bad idea. Methinks Jimmy hasn’t opened his bible in a long, long time.
Why now? The Southern Baptists have banned women from being pastors for decades now. It’s been pretty clear for sometime that they weren’t going to change.
Surprised he didn’t leave over SBC support of Israel.
Since I live in Atlanta, I could hardly avoid hearing about it. I was mistaken, though - it was almost ten years ago, not recently.
if one chooses different parts of God’s Word to exclude, then one is “doing exactly what he wants to do” - playing like he knows as much as God..
Carter and obamanation have a lot in common
He doesn’t know his bible and evidently disagrees with what he does know.
Women are supposed to be reveared. Men are supposed to be leaders.
Carter is an idiot
I thought Jimma and Bubba began their own Baptist sect a couple of years ago.
I thought he had done that years ago and joined a progressive Baptist denomination.
Well, it can only improve the Southern Baptists.
And keep going, please, Jimmah.
How fortunate for the Southern Baptist Ac.
The Southern Baptists probably suggested they hope the door doesn't hit him on the way out
It does sound like he’s railing against muslims. I think he’s totally lost it.
He's a piece of insignicant human excrement!
Too bad he and Rozalind get a life-time pension!
Why is this news? Some guy leaves a church. Big deal.
Them’s a lotta two-dollar words for some advice I wouldn’t pay a plug-nickel for, Jimmah.
I find it amazing he will praise Hamas but demonize Baptists.
Perhaps he really thinks baptists are the ones in burkas.
Jimma said: “No, Larry, I have a lot of Hindu, Muslim, etc. friends and I believe they are going to Heaven!”
That's the peanut picker from Georgia!
I expect he’ll start his own church now.
Some guys make such a big deal out of freeing up their Sundays for sleeping in, fishing, etc.
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