Clinton and Carter getting together to form a new religious coalition is both laughable and appalling.

Brother Carter and Brother Clinton’s Baptist Revival:

Exasperated by the persistent conservatism of their own Southern Baptist Convention, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are trying to organize an alternative organization for liberal Baptists…

Instead of traditional Southern Baptist-style biblical teaching, along with opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, this new kind of Baptist entity will fight poverty, global warming and war…

The new group will be less “negative and judgmental” than the 16 million member Southern Baptist Convention, Carter and Clinton have judgmentally promised. [I love that!]…

Citing issues on which his church and the former president disagree, Land [a Southern Baptist leader] contrasted Carter’s recent book likening of Israel to Apartheid South Africa with the Southern Baptist Convention’s own strong support for Israel.

According to Land, most Southern Baptists voted against both Clinton and Carter, and four out of five voters who identified themselves as Southern Baptists voted in 2000 for George W. Bush over Al Gore, who also belongs to the convention. “I suspect that Mr. Carter and Mr. Clinton are upset about that,” Land told the Atlanta Journal Constitution…

…In his book of last year, “Our Endangered Values,” Carter likens “fundamentalist” domination of the Southern Baptist Convention to the Ayatollah Khomeini’s rise to power in Iran…[what a slander!]

…But how noteworthy that the “New Baptist Covenant” seems to define itself not be creeds or theology, as conservative Southern Baptists do, but by generically left of center political and social goals: advocating greater environmental regulation, opposing U.S. military activities, advocating larger welfare state programs.

Traditional Christians understand their faith through common understandings of God, salvation, and personal ethical behavior. Religionists of the left often see these historic tenets as inconsequential. For many of them, religion is just an instrument for political activism…

This is going to be interesting to see how it plays out for Hillary. Clinton and Carter are supposed to host some big convention in January or February of 2008 for all of these “new” kind of Baptists. I wonder how she’s going to spin that. This cloak of religiosity is pretty thin and tattered. They are deluding themselves if they think it will give a nice religious tone and cover to their words and actions.

Carter, Clinton Back Moderate Baptists

Carter, Clinton announce Baptist meeting as counter to conservative Southern Baptists

With the help of former President Carter, Baptists who have distanced themselves from the conservative Southern Baptist Convention announced plans Tuesday for a major meeting that aims to improve the Baptist image and broaden its agenda.

Carter, who left the Southern Baptists in 2000 after the denomination came under conservative control, and former President Bill Clinton, also a Baptist, joined leaders of about 40 Baptist groups in making the announcement at The Carter Center.

“The title of the book was very carefully chosen. It doesn’t say that Israel is a racist nation. It doesn’t say that there are any indications of apartheid inside Israel. The book is about Palestine, uh, peace and not apartheid.”

I wonder why he didn’t call it Palestine: Peace and Grilled Kielbasa. Gregory actually does a half decent interview.

There’s too many Joooooos in this tub,
There’s too many Zionists to scrub!
I just washed a behind, I’m sure wasn’t mine,
There’s too many Joooooos in this tub.

Or something like that, eh Jimmah?

Kevin, your first post was pretty good, but what do I know?

Guess which one is the only accurate comment.

On another note, I really believe that “they killed Jesus” was always more of an excuse than a real reason to hate the Jews, who dared to be different at a time when most Europeans identified themselves as Christians. The Nazis certainly didn’t care that the Jews killed Jesus.

Besides, Palpy was FAR more competetant than Jimmah.

However, Jimmy DOES NOT GO TO CHURCH. He is not guided by the same spiritual tide as other Christians. In his own world (the breading ground of hatred) he’s lost it.

Um, I hate with the white hot light of a million burning suns to defend Jimmah Cartah, and I’m not a religious guy, but isn’t he supposedly a born-again Christian?

Aside from the respect I’d normally give the guy for the office he held, he’s personally and morally a douchebag. But I don’t think I’m qualified to comment on his spirituality.

However, Jimmy DOES NOT GO TO CHURCH. He is not guided by the same spiritual tide as other Christians. In his own world (the breading ground of hatred) he’s lost it.

Breaded and deep-fried in a boiling vat of hatred… just like the foul-mouthed fowl he is..

Jimmy is from a different era – a time when Christians where more hostile toward Jews and Israel. This was the time when the theme that “the Jews killed Jesus” came about.

Today, Evangelical and “Born Again” Christians are strongly pro-Israel. They recognize Israel’s David vs Goliath situation, and 9/11 has turned scripture into revelation.

However, Jimmy DOES NOT GO TO CHURCH. He is not guided by the same spiritual tide as other Christians. In his own world (the breading ground of hatred) he’s lost it.

The story above shows the usual liberal morality-fatigue.

Are you friggin kidding me? Might be the one place I would expect there to be a lot of Jews.

He was probably mad that there were no Nazi representatives for “balance”.

Did anyone ever look into this abrupt event? Maybe ya kinda get the suspicion that Jimmy was Not Entirely Mentally Sound? A fast learner and all that, but very ( as they used to say ) high-strung, with a tendency to latch onto crank theories.

Remember his presidency? Didn’t he seem just a little odd sometimes? Go back and look at the video of him as Prez–watch his eyes ( He’s got Nancy Pelosi eyes ) and the creepy smile that would come out of nowhere and stay too long……

and now he hates the Joooos; big surprise