Interesting write up on Christianity Today trying to propagandize Jimmy Carter, a false Christian looking at the fruit of his life (God judges). Christianity Today is a magazine started by Billy Graham who was responsible for infecting Christianity with liberal doctrine in the last century, and even denying the Bible and the one path to God through Christ, also cited as a Freemason (Freemasons learn at the final level they serve Satan if they couldn’t figure it out already). Though, Jimmy Carter living to 100, you’d have to think God was giving every opportunity to get his choice right. Consequently, Carter was a useful stooge leading to the oil deal with OPEC and Saudi Arabia that led to the petro dollar and incredible enrichment of the OCGFC solidifying their grip over the world.
https://thelibertydaily.com/sainting-jimmy-carter-christianity-today-is-farce/
By J.D. Rucker
For years, I’ve railed against the false doctrines promoted by “progressive” “evangelical” groups and publications like Christianity Today. The passing of President Jimmy Carter offered them another opportunity to prop up fake theological standards while lambasting people like President Ronald Reagan.
John G. West from Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture wrote up a scathing rebuke against Christianity Today’s puff piece:
I was going to stay silent about the passing of Jimmy Carter, but reading the Christianity Today article was too much. I wish the best for Carter’s grieving family, and Carter should be lauded for his humanitarian efforts, his efforts to bring about peace in the Middle East, and… pic.twitter.com/FvBiG1C13t
— John G. West (@JGWestDI) December 30, 2024
I was going to stay silent about the passing of Jimmy Carter, but reading the Christianity Today article was too much. I wish the best for Carter’s grieving family, and Carter should be lauded for his humanitarian efforts, his efforts to bring about peace in the Middle East, and for what I take was his sincere (if liberal) faith. But CT’s exercise in hagiography further destroys its reputation as a serious publication for evangelical Christians. A partial rundown:
(1) Ronald Reagan was divorced once, not twice, like the CT article claims. This is a pretty basic fact. You’d think the author (a professor at a Christian university) or a CT editor would have caught this error. Yes, this might seem a minor mistake. But in context, it’s part of a more egregious misrepresentation. The point of drawing attention to Reagan’s divorce was to slam evangelical voters for trading in the saintly Carter for the supposedly far less devout and loose-living Reagan. This is a common trope voiced by left-wing evangelicals, but it happens to be FALSE. We now know, thanks to the work of scholars like Paul Kengor, that Reagan was a pretty serious evangelical Christian in his personal life. Not that I think Christians should pick politicians based mainly on personal devoutness. I don’t. They should pick politicians primarily based on their policies. But the insinuation that Reagan was not a serious Christian (unlike Carter) is untrue.
(2) The article suggests that Carter’s disastrous presidency was foisted on him by outside events over which he could do nothing. Again, this is a standard talking point by the left. But it’s highly debatable. Anyone who knows how Carter facilitated the Islamists to take over Iran, or how his weak foreign policy emboldened Soviet aggression, will realize that his disastrous presidency had a lot to do with his own policies.
(3) Although the article glancingly mentions the White House Conference on Families, it doesn’t do much at all to help people understand why evangelicals were so upset about this event. Among other things, the Conference offered a redefinition of “family” that is incompatible with Christian teaching. I might also mention that Carter appointed some extreme cultural progressives to the courts. That was another reason theologically conservative evangelicals were upset with him.
(4) The article talks early on about Carter’s conservative theology. Yet not one word is spend discussing his promotion of gay marriage much more recently. Why? By the end of his life, Carter definitely did not embrace a conservative theology. But I guess delving into that wouldn’t fit the narrative that CT wants to offer. So it was suppressed.
It’s appropriate to laud Carter for the good things he did, especially at the time of his passing. But a serious Christian publication would have offered something more serious than this worshipful piece.
One reason it’s important to talk about Carter’s real record is because his rise to fame and power is symptomatic of an unhealthy strand in evangelical Christianity even today. Many evangelicals embrace public figures who wear their faith on their sleeve, paying almost no attention to their actual policy views and actions. When Christians do that, they get politicians and public officials like Jimmy Carter… or, more recently, Francis Collins. In my upcoming book Stockholm Syndrome Christianity (out Feb. 3), I discuss how damaging this has been for our culture and for Christianity. But it won’t stop unless people recognize it is a problem.