The other day while watching a documentary film on Helen Thomas, the hard-hitting longtime first female member of the White House Press Corps (and fellow Detroiter!), she made a remark about President Jimmy Carter that has remained with me. She said something to the affect that President Carter had missed his calling. He should have been a pastor and not a president.
Policy and political savvy aside momentarily, are presidents and pastors not both servant leaders? Perhaps the precise point is that policy and political savvy can never be put aside as the president. But perhaps in the case of the Pope and the Catholic Church such could never be put aside as well. Policy and politics seem a part of everything. What do you think?
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I think Mr. Carter would have made a good pastor, but he was a good president, too. I hate that some politicos almost insist that presidential candidates put their spiritual lives in a closet. I still admire Mr. Carter for his selfless community service and for his courage in not backing down on his religious beliefs. Would that more people were like him and his family.
"I still admire Mr. Carter for his selfless community service and for his courage in not backing down on his religious beliefs. Would that more people were like him and his family."
I agree with this statement, Marion. While President Carter is a religious man, he does not appear to be judgmental or a hard-line Christian conservative by any means. He is respectful of the beliefs of others. I honor him for this and his community service.
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