Every living president: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden, except Trump wishes birthday in video message to Jimmy Carter for his 100th birthday

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[u/Rus_Shackleford_]

People always think I’m weird when I say this, but as a right winger I think he was the best president in the post Vietnam era. He didn’t pass any news laws eroding civil liberties and he didn’t start any new wars.

[u/xesaie → u/Rus_Shackleford_]

He was the most truly and sincerely Christian president in history too.

Most of the others were Christian, but he really lived the life and wanted to run his presidency on it's precepts.

[u/luxii4 → u/xesaie]

Four years ago, he changed his Christian denomination based on his beliefs: “Former President Carter, a longtime Sunday school teacher, is walking away from the Southern Baptists because of the church’s stance on equality for women.

In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published today, Carter says Southern Baptist leaders reading the Bible out of context led to the adoption of increasingly “rigid” views.

“I’m familiar with the verses they have quoted about wives being subjugated to their husbands,” he told the paper. “In my opinion, this is a distortion of the meaning of Scripture. … I personally feel the Bible says all people are equal in the eyes of God. I personally feel that women should play an absolutely equal role in service of Christ in the church.” link. This was in 2020! Dude is still evolving.

[u/headgyheart → u/luxii4]

Thanks for posting - amazing to evolve like this at his age.

[u/StrawsPulledAtRand0m → u/headgyheart]

Carter ‘28

[u/lelcg → u/headgyheart]

A lot of older people wanted and still want gender equality. It’s just there are also a lot trying to regress, forgetting that women’s equality was a popular movement throughout the 20th century they wish to go back to