On Monday, September the 30th former President James Earl Carter turned 100 years old, and became the first centennial President. On Sunday, December 29th, 2024, God called President Carter home. What a God we serve! Almost two years ago medical professionals placed President Carter in hospice care and declared that he had two weeks to live. President Carter spiritually understood that death and life are in the power of the tongue. More importantly, death is swallowed up in victory in God. Therefore: “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” (1 Corinthians 15: 55). In the 2024 Presidential election between Former President Donald J. Trump and VP Kamala Harris, President Carter declared that he would Godly cast his vote for VP Harris for LIFE, not death. James Earl Carter became President in 1976 defeating President Gerald Ford. President Carter was affectionately called by some as “Jimmy Who”, because he was relatively unknown on the national political scene. James Earl Carter was the Governor of Georgia, a peanut farmer, and affectionately known as Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter’s campaign raised two overriding concerns: can religion be effectively used to revitalize American culture and political-governmental processes? Of course, attempting to be morally right in politics is a no, no, and twenty-first century Trump-style politics is a classic example. Secondly, can Blacks and the disinherited poor (the underclass) coupled with the support of socio-economic visionaries alter power arrangements, political institutions, value orientations, and eventually the social system of reward allocation to create a more economic democratic egalitarian society? As Governor of Georgia, Carter had demonstrated that he was a Godly rational and efficient managerial steward. America this is something that Donald J. Trump has clearly dem- onstrated that he can never spiritually understand or become, because he is too self-centered. President Carter’s interview in Playboy magazine was a profound example of Jimmy Carter’s spiritual comfort level in his own skin as well as his sense of Christian morality. This was a bit too much for the hypocritical moral majority population to accept. In 1976 a Playboy interviewer asked Carter had […]
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