Jimmy Carter: Christianity Mistreats Women as Much as Islam

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

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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......

[The_Media_never_lie]

Dementia is tough.

[jughandle]

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

Yeah because he won’t be killed for doing so, Muslims don’t seem to tolerate criticism so well..

[GOPJ]

Jimmah’s off his meds again...

[novemberslady]

I was very young during Carters years, and didn't care at all about politics.
Even then I saw that this guy carter was messing up the country.
Everyone was depressed, losing everything they had.
They were unable to find a job, and to top it all off Americans were taken hostage by Iran.

My friends often made fun of Carter (and so did their parents)
And a song was played regularly on the radio called Ayatollah.

No jobs-No gas-Economy in the toilet-and Iran laughing their asses off at America.

Along came Ronald Reagan.
People that should have been embarrassed into shutting up (Carter's supporters) started bashing Reagan saying he was stupid.
Just an actor.

But Ronald Reagan showed them all. (me too)

Because of Ronald Reagan I finally registered to vote and became a registered Republican.

[MrChips]

Luther’s.