Claim:
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter once said or wrote, “Christianity has been hijacked by people who would give Jesus himself the boot if he knocked on their door.”
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Context:
The quote is a paraphrase of statements Carter made to a Star Tribune reporter as part of a Nov. 11, 2005, article promoting his book “Our Endangered Values.” The statement appears without quotation marks in that Star-Tribune article, and the book in question does not include that sentence.
In October 2023 and for several years before, a popular quote about alleged hypocrisy in far-right evangelical Christian circles was attributed to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in meme form:
The origin of this statement is a Nov. 11, 2005, article in the Star Tribune. At the time, Carter was promoting his recently published book “Our Endangered…
