Jimmy Carter - new book about his views on the Bible

[Stacie]

One of his comments could have been directed straight at Santorum, Duggars, etc:

"Jesus also taught that we should not judge other people (Matthew 7:1), and that it is God who judges people, so I am willing to let God make those judgments, in the ultimate time whenever it might come. I think ‘judge not that you be not judged’ is the best advice that I will follow. Maybe it is a rationalization, but it creates a lack of tension in my mind about that potential conflict.

There are many verses in the Bible that you could interpret very rigidly and that makes you ultimately into a fundamentalist. When you think you are better than anybody else -- that you are closer to God than other people, and therefore they are inferior to you and subhuman -- that leads to conflict and hatred and dissonance among people when we should be working for peace."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/1 ... d%3D144967

I like this guy. I voted for him for President when I was in the third grade, too;)

[apple1]

I really like Jimmy Carter. I have a lot of respect for him.

[holierthanyou]

He has always been my favourite president.