Jimmy Carter & Religion

We talked Monday about Jimmy Carter and religion, and I think this Colbert Report episode (here and here) provides interesting (and funny) insight into the role social gospel is still playing in his life. His new book, "A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power" is about how much of women's suffering at the hands of religion comes from false interpretation of religious texts (it's also his 28th book!). He also says he'll convert to Catholicism if the current Pope remains and a female priest asks him to join. Carter also wrote the Pope a letter about his book and "he said that he agreed with many of the things I told him about, which he already knew I'm sure, and he said that in his opinion in the future years, women needed to play a much greater role in the Catholic Church than they were playing now or have played in the past."

I'm struggling to find a shorter clip of the portions I'm talking about, but the entire episode is worth a watch in your spare time. Here is an article about it as well.