Jimmy Carter be hating on Pope John Paul II.
The former president said that he complained to the Pontiff about the Church’s “perpetuation of the subservience of women” while Blessed John Paul II was visiting the US in 1978, and “there was more harshness when we turned to the subject of ‘liberation theology.” Carter said that he classified the Pope as a “fundamentalist,” placing him in that category along with Iran’s late Ayatollah Khomeini.
In the same interview Carter said that “it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies,” although he suggested—“maybe arbitrarily”—that churches should not be required by law to solemnize same-sex unions.
Carter made his remarks as he introduced a new edition of the Bible with his own study notes, helping readers to follow his understanding of the Scriptures.
That last line made me laugh out loud!!
Jimmy Carter is a jackass.
March 24, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Because . . . the world is clamoring for Jimmy's take on Scripture? That's one healthy ego he's got there.
(I wonder whether he really lectured JPII or is just making it up.)
March 24, 2012 at 4:56 pm
So the most ineffective president of the 20th century "lectured" a saint-among-us. Hmm. That worked out well …
March 24, 2012 at 5:00 pm
A Jimmy Carter Study Bible!? Won't the Protestants ever quit issuing these so-called study bibles? All of these things pander and cater to a particular slant or interpetation of the Scriptures. They are, by their very nature, sectarian and partisan. The Scofield is the most famous of these 'Bibles', and it's so sectarian and partisan, that it's completely out of touch with even classic Protestantism, let alone the Catholic faith.
March 24, 2012 at 5:20 pm
He may be a jackass on the outside, but crack that peanut open and you'll find pure tyrant.
March 24, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Pure "progressive".
March 24, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Steve
How about http://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/ ?
March 24, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Jimmy Carter signed on to the Tri Lateral Commission while in England after election and before inauguration making him president. The Tri Lateral Commission is for the one world government. Jimmy Carter wasn't even a president, yet he made, ratified, consummated, and signed away America's sovereignty to the Tri Lateral Commission for all of his constituents who had yet to become his constitutents. Tyranny before tyranny. Tyranny before our founding principles. Tyranny before our constitution. Tyranny before JUSTICE. Holy Scripture. As Dr. Watson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous character in Sherlock Holmes used to say when he encountered pure evil: "Saints preserve us" and the saints did preserve us…from Jimmy Carter. Now, the saints must preserve us from Barack Obama.
March 24, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Jimma Carter was, is, and will probably always be a nitwittian, theologically. He fooled me into voting for him once, but I learned my lesson, I've never voted democrat again. JPII must have had the patience of Job, to have to be "lectured" by such an ignoramus.
March 24, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Anon at 3:12 pm, thanks for the link to the ASB. I still stand by what I said about the Prot study Bibles. They are sectarian and partisan.
March 24, 2012 at 9:05 pm
I am so sorry to say that Jimma Carter was also a Submarine salor. A slap in the face of every Sub salor the world over. You know Admiral Rickover had to approve every submarine officer that served in the "former silent" service. I think he was paid off on Jimma Carter. As a qualified submarine salor I cringe at the mention of his name. In addition he damaged the submarine service as president.
Jim Dorchak Qm2/SS
March 24, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Mary De Voe, the Trilateral Commission is a thinktank of economists. It has no actual power—its influence is no different from that of any other thinktank—and is no more a threat to US sovereignty than, well, the Vatican.
Certainly, Jimmy Carter's internationalist imbecility was in line with the thinking of the Commission's members, but the Commission itself wields no power whatsoever. Which is good, as they do espouse horribly bad ideas.
March 24, 2012 at 10:35 pm
I hear this and I just laugh. It's the best response to such nonsense.
March 24, 2012 at 11:09 pm
Given that the liberation theology controversies during the pontificate of John Paul II did not really flare up until 1984 and 1986, how likely is it that an American baptist was sufficiently engaged to have a harsh debate in 1978?
Sounds like BS to me.
March 25, 2012 at 12:38 am
Sophia's Favorite: If the Trilateral Commission has no power why was Jimma Carter signing us up for it? My idea of the Trilateral Commission was formed by the National Catholic Register. Try the archives.and Jay Rockerfella's population control group with Holy Cross Father, Theodore Hesburg,President of Notre Dame morphed into the United Nations International Population control group. Maybe I will look it up myself.
March 25, 2012 at 2:33 am
Sorry that this truely decent person knocked your mysogenistic and homophobic religious world view. Time to rename him Jimma (really?), and lynch him? I don't understand the name calling really.
March 25, 2012 at 2:54 am
His stupidity is suitably matched by his arrogance! So he's a Bible scholar too?!
March 25, 2012 at 3:42 am
"…Sorry that this truely decent person knocked your mysogenistic and homophobic religious world view…"
Anonymous, how long have you been a queer?
And Catholic Church hater?
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March 25, 2012 at 4:31 am
Jimmy Carter has never met a homocidal tyrant that he doesn't like….and he prefers the election habits of the Soviet KGB to the US'….what a creep; what an idiot; what a communist.
March 25, 2012 at 7:45 am
It would be truer to say that Jimmy Carter "played into the hands" of the Trilateral Commission, in pursuing internationalist, anti-sovereignty policies. Or "was duped by". To say he signed over our sovereignty to the Commission implies that they now exercise de facto sovereignty over this country, which they certainly do not, and never did, not even at the height of their power.
They, like the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, are think-tanks that can put a lot of money and intellectual capital into abominable policies, but they don't directly do anything. Hence my comparison to the Vatican—the Pope doesn't really have much worldly power at all, his power is principally in swaying the hearts and minds of those who do have worldly power. Though the Vatican has far less money than virtually any think-tank.
March 25, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Pablo: I'll answer your question with a joke.
A child was sitting by the sidewalk with a sign "Free Christian Kittens". A week later, the sign changed to "Free Atheist Kittens". A passerby asked the difference. The kid said "Their eyes are open now".
I am married and my wife is Catholic. Not much queer or hate there, but attacking Jimmy by name calling and his inclusivenes when he wants to be decent to his fellow citizens is sad.