I've never understood how Carter claimed to be a Christian, yet never spoke out against abortion. Some could say, "it was too divisive when he was President". But what about the 50 years after he left office? I just don't understand, as a Christian myself, how someone could so casually avoid speaking out against the abomination of abortion. If anyone has insight into this discrepancy of Carter, please chime in.
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The term Christian is used liberally if that makes sense ! Thank you for speaking out for the babies who have been and still are murderered . I pray for those who continue to speak out for them. God heard your cry and you don’t need to be a president for your words to impact the spirit realm . God bless you my friend ! We will see these babies someday and I look forward to meeting you someday either here there are in the air . Thank you again for your love and compassion for the babies who have no voice !
Thank you, and you have reminded me to include prayers for expectant mothers in my nightly prayers!
Carter's public persona was carefully cultivated to portray him as a humble conservative Christian peanut farmer from the deep south. In private though he was a raging egomaniac, at least according to the Secret Service agents on his detail. He gave away the Panama canal, allowed our embassy hostages in Tehran to languish in captivity for 444 days, and then revealed the existence of the F117 stealth fighter in a transparent attempt to boost his lagging poll numbers against Reagan.
He was obsessed with being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. After he left office, he became a menace to succeeding administrations (Bush and Clinton specifically) by meddling in foreign affairs because he saw himself as the only person capable of negotiating difficult deals or agreements (e.g. North Korea during Clinton). He and his wife created the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project (CWP) in 1984, which partnered with Habitat for Humanity, in an additional effort to get the Peace Prize, which he was eventually awarded in 2002.
This may sound harsh, but this is why people my age and older who lived through his administration have for years been wanting him to just go away.
Edit: I do not know if he is a Christian or not. Only he and God know that. I simply posted facts and observations.
Same reason he created the Department of Education. His numbers were lagging and he wanted to appease the teachers union. Almost immediately education began to suffer and it has continued to decline ever since.
Excellent point! I totally forgot about that!
God knows His own.
Jimmy Carter was a hateful monster. Every thing he ever did to "help" anyone was purely for show.
Matthew 7: 21-23
My main point is, he could have probably saved the lives of THOUSANDS if he had simply, and publicly, stated how wrong abortion is. He was an engineer, so obviously had enough science to know an unborn child is fully human. I have to wonder if he avoided the subject because he valued his political career more than the lives of the millions of unborn children slaughtered EVERY year through abortion.
I know people who claim to be "Christian" and are "pro choice". They just tell themselves that the fetus is not really a baby until it's born (the trite "clump of cells" lie). They also twist and distort the bible to suit their desires, telling themselves (and anyone else they think will swallow their BS drivel) that "the bible was written by man". They cherry pick their way through the bible discarding anything they find inconvenient. They're free to choose what they call themselves (even if not true) and what to believe, but in the end they'll answer to the Creator as we all will.
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On Carter, it sounds as if any pro life stances he had were downplayed by media so that the antihuman folks would look like they're in the majority --
https://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Jimmy_Carter_Abortion.htm
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https://www.mediaite.com/online/jimmy-carter-shares-his-views-on-abortion-democrats-with-laura-ingraham/
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"Strategic ambiguity" --
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2025/01/jimmy-carter-awkward-abortion-moderate
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https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2025/01/the-last-pro-life-democrat-president
Just like so many “devout “ priests and Catholic brothers support abortion and are pro-choice. God will judge them in the end. There are many pedophiles and homosexuals in religious sects and communities.
The only man in history to get rid of a pernicious and awful disease using just his own money.
How so? Never heard of this.
Please explain your post. Thank you.
A couple of links for you:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jimmy-carter-worked-to-eradicate-the-vicious-guinea-worm-parasite-slashing-cases-by-the-millions-180985791/
https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html
= so NOT a Christian, was Carter always....