Jimmy Carter a Bohdisattava?

[TARA]

Jimmy Carter is dying of cancer. He has one last goal in life, and it’s not political.

Jimmy Carter has cancer that’s spread to his brain, and while he’s planning to fight it with chemotherapy and radiation, the ninety year old former President doesn’t have much time left. We know this because he’s already speaking in terms of his own impending death. In the past thirty-five years since leaving office, Carter has focused his efforts entirely on charitable and peacemaking causes. Now that the end is near, it should surprise no one that he’s focused in on one remaining goal, and that it’s a specific humanitarian one.

[yontenjamyang]

TARA, It certainly seem to me that Mr Jimmy Carter has use his entire life in the practice of helping others. If that is not a life of a Bodhisattva, I do not know what is. For one need not preach the Dharma per se all the time. It is the actions that defines the person and from the action we can see the motivation.

I pray that Mr Carter live longer to complete at least his last wishes and will continue his mission is his next life too.

[angelica]

Mr Jimmy Carter is sure a Bodhisattva. He and his wife have founded The Carter Center which their mission are to wage peace, fight disease and build hope. An act of a person that improve the life of others and to benefit others is definitely an act of a Bodhisattva. Pray that Mr Jimmy Carter can go thru his obstacles and live long to benefit more people.

[eyesoftara]

I remember that Mr Carter along with Mr Bill Clinton are the ex Presidents who negotiated for the release of American political prisoners arrested by the North Korean regime. That is the one thing I know that stands out about Mr Jimmy Carter.
His mindset is certainly different from ordinary people in that he dedicates his whole life to charity and peacemaking causes. For that we can see that his mindset is a boddhisattva mindset.

[DharmaSpace]

Jimmy Carter is A Democrat, usually Democrat Presidents are a lot less war mongering than Republican Presidents being more domestically focused. Democrats call themselves Liberals, but I think they are more Socialist in nature, but because of the war against Communism in the American History, the word socialist was sort of a dirty word in the American History.

Few people can compete with Jimmy Carter’s knowledge of the bible. As noted in his WikiPedia site:

From a young age, Carter showed a deep commitment to Christianity. He teaches Sunday school and is a deacon at the Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains. As president, Carter prayed several times a day, and professed that Jesus Christ was the driving force in his life. Carter had been greatly influenced by a sermon he had heard as a young man. It asked, “If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?” The New York Times noted that Carter had been instrumental in moving evangelical Christianity closer to the American mainstream during and after his presidency. . . . In April 2006, Carter, former President Bill Clinton, and Mercer University President Bill Underwood initiated the New Baptist Covenant. The broadly inclusive movement seeks to unite Baptists of all races, cultures and convention affiliations. Eighteen Baptist leaders representing more than 20 million Baptists across North America backed the group as an alternative to the Southern Baptist Convention.

When the Huffington Post asked Former President Carter about his views on homosexuality, this is how he responded:

Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things -– he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
Thank you, President Carter, for setting the record straight.

http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/08/jimmy-carter-sets-record-straight-on-the-bible-and-homosexuality/

He is a prolific speaker.   
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/opinion/editorials/guest-editorial-the-quiet-courage-of-jimmy-carter/article_3f4f8680-4d45-11e5-ba83-7f8c2b397c40.html

[Matibhadra]

Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality.

Yes, he said.

Jesus said with all the letters that he did not come in order to contradict the prophets coming before him, but rather in order to fulfill his commandments without an exception, among such commandments being stoning homosexuals to death, as commanded in the book of Leviticus, ascribed to his barbaric, bloodthirsty forerunner, the “prophet” Moses.

As one can see, the current atrocities put into practice by the Islamic State (and daily by US friendly countries such as Saudi Arabia) are just plain Judaism, and therefore in perfect agreement with Jesus' teachings.

Jesus even personally commanded the stoning adulterers, just requiring that the stoners did not commit adultery themselves.

Beyond stoning homosexuals and adulterers, Jesus' forerunner and model Moses also ordered his generals bestially to perpetrate the murdering of all the boys and adult women among the enemy, while taking the virgin girls for the generals' “personal use”, which means, for things like gang raping and so forth.

Therefore, in terms of encouraging, and even enforcing, the most barbaric atrocities, there is not one single iota of difference between Jesus, Jews, and Islamic State. No wonder that those named by the Kalachakra Tantra as the “eight barbaric prophets” are all Jewish prophets (Adam, Noah, Abraham and Moses, taken as models by Jesus), Jesus and Mani (Jews themselves), or Judaism-compliant products or subproducts, such as the Islamic prophets Muhammad and Mahdi.