I was wrong about Jimmy Carter.

[keithbvadu2]

I was wrong about Jimmy Carter.

When he first ran for the White House, I figured he was just another political Christian.
There are so very few genuine Christians of faith.
I was against him. I was wrong.

The primary face of Christianity in America today is that of dollars and intolerance.

The Bible is just a tool for them.

Religion and politics use each other to gain wealth and power.

[dchill]

1. Jimmy Carter is one of one.

[live love laugh]

2. ✔️

[TomSlick]

11. One of a few perhaps.

There are others. Most stay out of the news.

They are easy to identify. They live the beatitudes. They don't seek to impose themselves on others. They do not trumpet their piety.

I know a few such people.

[walkingman]

3. If mostl White Christians were like Jimmy Carter

I would not have a problem with Christians. Most I have meet, especially in the South, are racist denying, "holier-than-thou", hypocrites.

[stage left]

4. Jimmy Carter doesn't just talk the talk

He walks the walk. He is, and always has been, the real deal. My admiration for him knows no bounds.

[Drum]

5. Talks the talk, and walks the walk.

[republianmushroom]

6. President Carter was a man

who talked the talk but who also walked the walk.

[Bo Zarts]

7. I was honored to vote for Jimmy Carter in the November 3, 1970 election for Georgia governor.

I voted by absentee ballot from my base at Nha Trang, Vietnam.

[JT45242]

8. Best and brightest light

Nuclear engineer in the navy and actually lived Matthew 25, housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, etc.

Failed as a politician because he was used to the navy and people going with the right decision based on evidence not in a desire for power.

I love that he still took his turn teaching the adukt Sunday school class at his home church every couple of months while president.

Even more impressed when he said the church had moved away from him to bigotry later in his life.

He lived the two great rules: love God and love your neighbors.

A truly great man.

[ConstanceCee]

9. He Has Always Been Here

I admired him so much. I voted for him in 1976. I loved that he put solar panels on the roof of the White House. I loved that he wore cardigan sweaters as a reminder to turn down the thermostat. I loved that he won the Nobel Peace Prize, recognition he so deserved. I joined Costco just so I could go to a book signing, and am so glad I did. He is a great person, and I am thankful that we had him while we did.

[liberal N proud]

10. Jimmy was my first election

At first, I didn't think he would be a good leader. I saw him a a southern farmer and not ready for the world stage.

Happily I was so wrong, he has been one of the best to ever hold the office. His work during and after serving was nothing less than admirable.

Heart is breaking hearing of his condition.

[Tarzanrock]

12. Jimmy Carter is the President who won the Cold War

Jimmy Carter is the President who won the Cold War. Reagan falsely took the credit but it was Carter's "tough" policies which defeated the Soviet Union. It was President Carter who imposed the hard economic sanctions and the even harder grain embargo on the Soviet Union. It was Carter who imposed the Olympic boycott. It was President Carter who sought and actually implemented the even much sturdier defense posture by stationing medium range nuclear missiles in Europe aimed at the Soviet Union. It was the four years of hard economic sanctions and the Carter Administration's foreign policy of the stationing of the Pershing I and Pershing II class nuclear missiles with the new advanced MIRV warheads [A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) is an exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several nuclear warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit a different target in the Soviet Union] in Europe which brought Brezhnev and the Russians to the bargaining table which Reagan falsely took the credit. The actual and all too real threat of a first strike nuclear annihilation from European based American Pershing missiles with MIRV nuclear warheads imposed by President Carter which is what won the Cold War and defeated the Soviet Union.

[Jerry2144]

14. +infinity

[roamer65]

15. It was President Carter who took it to the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan was the USSR’s Vietnam.

[former9thward]

16. The Soviet occupatin began in December, 1979.

Carter imposed some sanctions and the Olympic boycott but military opposition to the Soviets by the Mujahideen did not begin until the early 1980s.

[roamer65]

17. Ask Zbigniew Brzezinski.

He will tell you otherwise.

[former9thward]

18. He worked for Carter.

I am sure he would. I would rather look at objective history.

[roamer65]

19. I look at Operation Cyclone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Operation Cyclone began in 1979 under the Carter administration. Arms began to flow to the Mujahideen from the United States thru the Pakistani ISI.

[former9thward]

20. I did not say Carter did nothing.

I said the resistance to the Soviets took 10 years until 1989. The Soviets were not defeated by what happened in one year at the beginning. They would have withdrawn in 1980 instead of 1989 if that were the case.

[Jerry2144]

13. Exactly

I wish any politician who claims to be Christian were just 10% as good as him instead of negative million percent. He really is a good role model for how to love your neighbor.

I hope his passing helps more people support the Habitat for Humanity and similar organization that help the unhomed.