It's Jimmy Carter's turn (again) to play the "I'm an idiot" card

He's blaming Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists for "creating an environment where violations against women are justified":

It is a theme that Carter has successfully used to garner media attention for several years. 

Although in a July column in The Observer Carter admits to "not having training in religion or theology," in his address to the PWR Carter appeals to his authority as someone who has "taught Bible lessons for more than 65 years."

In opposition to the vast majority of authentic scholars and historians, Carter asserted: "It's clear that during the early Christian era women served as deacons, priests, bishops, apostles, teachers and prophets."  He added: "It wasn't until the 4th century or the 3rd at the earliest that dominant Christian leaders, all men, twisted and distorted Holy Scriptures to perpetuate their ascendant position within the religious hierarchy."

Contrary to the theorizing of Carter, Pope John Paul II taught, "The Lord Jesus chose men to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry."  He added: "the Church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself.  For this reason the ordination of women is not possible." (Catechism of the Catholic Church; 1577)

Carter singled out the Southern Baptist Convention and Roman Catholic Church, claiming that they "view that the Almighty considers women to be inferior to men."  However, both Christian faiths hold to the Scriptural truth that God created men and women equal.

Carter suggests that only in permitting women to become priests and pastors could male religious leaders choose to interpret teachings to exalt rather than subjugate women.  "They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter, subjugation," he said.

"Their continuing choice provides a foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the world," said Carter. Carter goes on to list horrific violations against women such as rape, genital mutilation, abortion of female embryos and spousal battery.

H/T Wheat & Weeds.

Crossposted(*).

Comments

[Locutisprime]

Yeah right Jimmy boy. Have another Billy beer and then see what other epiphanies of your enlightened secular reasoning you can thunk up for the rest of us.

[Instinct]

Gee, thanks Jimmy. Now STFU and go away.

The more irrelevant he become the louder he talks

[Chris Vehr]

Jimmy Carter is the most consistent liberal out there. He has been an idiot since the mid 70s and continues to be so even today.

[chuck aka xtnyoda]

Well... being a small part of the SBC myself... the day he left... was one of our brighter days...

[Bernie]

He is also a peanut brain.

[Provoking Thought]

So they let Jimmy out of the asylum again.

I love how he talks about perverting the scripture. Has he been hanging out with Dan Brown because this sounds like the Da Vinci Code mantra.

[Mommynator]

Selective memory and history. That's what Jimmy is preaching.

He forgets that the pagans and heathens of the day viewed women as less than human.

That Christianity elevated them to equal marriage partners, and rulers of their homes and domains escapes him.

[Mommynator]

Oh, and those mean Southern Baptists - while I don't agree with them on everything - who dare to treat women as rational beings able to practice moral living and create loving homes and families. Absolutely hateful, eh?

[Matteo]

"Carter goes on to list horrific violations against women such as rape, genital mutilation, abortion of female embryos and spousal battery."

So wait, a minute. Carter is presumably "pro-choice". So I guess for him, being torn apart in the womb is only a horrific violation of your rights if it was done as "gender discrimination"? It's not being slaughtered that's so bad, it's being slaughtered at a higher rate than males! Otherwise, no harm, no foul.

[Mommynator]

Yes, and who's doing the gental mutilation?

Who APPROVES of spousal battery and spousal rape? Who APPROVES of abortion on demand?

It's not the roman catholic church or the baptists, I'm thinking.