Jimmy Carter Blasts Southern Baptist Fundamentalism

Former President Jimmy Carter blasts the values of Southern Baptists and Fundamentalists in his newest book Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis.

A review of the book in Ethics Daily says,

In Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis, the 39th president of the United States cites frequently changes in the Southern Baptist Convention to illustrate what he argues is a fundamental shift in U.S. values.

Yesterday, a State Representative in Oklahoma told me that this book clarified the threat of Fundamentalism and the effect that it had on Southern Baptists better than anything that she had previously read. She said she wants to give a copy of it to every member of the state legislature in Oklahoma.

I have not read the book yet. After two ringing endorsements of the book in two days, you can be sure that it is at the top of my list of books to buy and read.

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