Rick Marschall; American Spectator
"And, surely, Christ did not respect Scripture and then sing for His people to “imagine” that there was no religion, nor Heaven. Imagine — that Jesus did not think anything was worth dying for. He died for us, Jimmy. You too."
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"Jimmy Carter had become a bit of a non-person in his long retirement. From the first day of his “ex” status, he was seldom interviewed on events of the day; seldom visited the White House or Congressional offices; and seldom, if ever, was consulted on policy even by Democrats once on his team. This was partly due to his generally disastrous record over four years, and the toxicity of his electoral shellacking. Despite the best intentions and limited effects of the Carter Center and his endless books, it was his assessment of Israel — as an Apartheid nation engaging in human rights crimes — that turned him into a type of political leper in Big Media and in politics. “Unclean!!!”
"All those matters were predictably glossed over in the state funeral at the National Cathedral. Eulogists spoke of his background as a peanut farmer (he actually managed a peanut warehouse) and as a “nuclear physicist” (he actually was a sailor on a nuclear — or as he pronounced it, “nucular” — submarine). But he was also lauded as a humanitarian, someone who railed against poverty and disease, and who created many federal agencies and programs, appointing women and racial minorities to them and judicial posts.
"And people remember Habitat For Humanity. Although the laudable organization scarcely was named at the funeral, people saw, over the decades, Jimmy Carter hammering boards and carrying wood. Because of this, it was said through those decades he that might have been America’s Best Ex-President.
"Carter’s famous Sunday School classes were mentioned too. Indeed he frequently had quoted the Bible in his public life, and cited Scripture, even in a famous Playboy interview, as having informed his principles.
"At the funeral, there were hymns, an organ accompanied by an orchestral ensemble, and a choir. The National Cathedral arranges such services along High Episcopalian lines, far from the Southern Baptist church Carter attended most of his life; and even more distant from the more liberal Baptist church he moved to in his last years. But the eulogies, testimonies, remembrances, and anecdotes frequently referenced Carter’s faith." . . .
Rick Marschall is a former political cartoonist and frequent commentator. Among his 75 books and many essays, he has written about the American presidency, including three on Theodore Roosevelt. One of his three weekly blogs is MondayMinistry.com/blog
Also here: A Christian funeral held in a Christian church closed with a secular humanist hymn.
Jimmy Carter was a man out of his depth as president of a great power in a very dangerous world. He was infected by the ideology of liberalism which offers a utopian vision of “mankind” and the notion of perpetual peace. Imagine that.
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. . .“ 'I have to say that, from my point of view, I felt he was a hypocrite,” Julian told The Telegraph in 1998. “Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces — no communication, adultery, divorce? You can’t do it, not if you’re being true and honest with yourself.”
Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia, divorced in 1968 after he began a relationship with Ono. From there, he became a distant figure in his ex-wife and son’s lives." . . .
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