I know that the title of this post alone is going to draw fire. So be it. It is written the way it is written in order to be absolutely clear. Jimmy Carter claims to be a Christian and even takes to the pulpit at his Plains Church to preach The Gospel and share The Word. His actions however, are in stark contrast to his words. Jimmy Carter's Christianity is one that is warped and distorted by liberation theology and a sad, sick, obsessive desire to leave a legacy, any legacy, other than the one he deserves for his continued arrival at the wrong side of history.
His latest decision to meet with Hamas' leaders, men dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the sacrifice of their own people if it serves their purposes, is further proof of Carter's having lost his way. Over the years, Carter has embraced dictators and murderers, he has assisted in the murders of thousands by standing by while dictators and theocrats came to power and launched pogroms. He bent his knee toward the false god of communism by showing his belly to the USSR and its surrogates and satellites rather than facing up to them and calling them out for their crimes against God and man.
Carter is incapable of loyalty to anything other than his own inflated ego. He is not loyal to the nation which he pledged to lead and then, when he failed as its leader, chose to blame his fellow citizens for his impotence. He is only loyal to his party when it listens to him or when the Republican Party is in power and he can use the wimp pulpit of failed former president to berate the current leadership from the safety of the peanut gallery, (no pun intended.) If he can not be loyal to his own country and the people whom he claims to love, how can he be loyal to God? He can't even render unto Caesar what is Caesar's without talking about how he rendered it better when he was Caesar.
His writings, from Beyond the White House to Palestine: Peace not Apartheid are nothing more than poorly written attempts to revise history in the belief that a book will outlive his critics. (Not to worry, there will be new critics with each generation as more and more people see how he damaged and continues to damage the United States.) Criticism of Carter is met with self righteous indignation worthy of Bill Clinton's finger wagging denials and Barack Obama's impassioned rhapsodizing on the state of race in (G-d Damn) America. Whenever taken to task for his opportunism (remember how he painted himself as a Wallace democrat when he ran for Governor of Georgia) or anti-semitic words and actions, Carter's first response is to deflect the attack and accuse the attacker of either having some hidden agenda or being incapable of understanding the complexity of thought that careens between the ears of #39.
While Carter may share the same initials as our Lord and Savior, it might be good to recall that Christ died and descended into hell to defeat evil. Had Christ had anything in common with carter he would have emerged with a worthless peace treaty and a belief that this too somehow contributed to his legacy.
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