Our Endangered Values

America's Moral Crisis

De: Jimmy Carter

Narrado por: Jimmy Carter

President Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and faith. In Living Faith, a huge best seller, he recounted the values and experiences that shaped his personal and political life. In his companion book Sources of Strength, also a best seller, he meditated on fifty-two of the favorite Bible lessons he has taught.

In Our Endangered Values, Carter offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning of where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred.

Now, he describes his own involvement and reactions to some disturbing societal trends that have taken place during the last few years. These changes involve both the religious and the political worlds as they have increasingly become intertwined, and include some of the most crucial and controversial issues of the day, frequently encapsulated under "moral values".

Many of these matters are under fierce debate. They include preemptive war, women's rights, terrorism, civil liberties, homosexuality, abortion, the death penalty, science and religion, environmental degradation, nuclear arsenals, America's global image, fundamentalism, and the melding of religion and politics.

Sustained by his lifelong faith, Jimmy Carter assesses these issues in a forceful and unequivocal but balanced and courageous way. Our Endangered Values is a book that his millions of readers have eagerly awaited.

©2005 Jimmy Carter (P)2005 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.

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• Grammy Award Winner, Best Spoken Word Album, 2006

"Carter speaks eloquently of how his own faith has shaped his moral vision and of how he has struggled to reconcile his own values with the Southern Baptist church's transformation under increasingly conservative leadership. He also makes resonant connections between religion and political activism." (Publishers Weekly)

Inspirational

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Absolutely. President Carter is insightful. Unlike most, he lives his beliefs and explains why in great detail. It is to bad more people do not follow his example. Well worth the read.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No

Outstanding!

President Carter addresses many issues our country is currently tackling. He is particularly critical of our current administration's desire to incorporate "their" religion into "our" government. He addresses the dangers of the path we are taking and how this path conflicts with our constitution and with the very religion professed by the administration. He covers many other issues including preemptive war, science and religion, environmental degradation, homosexuality, abortion, civil liberties, women's rights, along with many others.
His conclusion and the conclusion of many people throughout time is that fundamentalism is one of the most dangerous problems facing the world. The inability to be OK with someone else's point of view or someone else's way of life is simply a danger to the planet. Our country, like Europe during the dark ages, like modern-day Afghanistan, is being steered down a path desired by the fundamentalist. Saddam Hussein was smart enough to not get involved with fundamentalist Muslims. Our president believes that fundamentalism is the path our country should take and, as Carter points out, our president is using patriotism as a means to get the ignorant to not ask questions and to not think for themselves. As of today America is now more conservative than the nation of South Africa.

If you are interested in what a Nobel peace prize winning thinker has to say about the direction our country has taken, then this is an excellent read. If thinking is not your forte, then buy the book so that you can write a review of drivel. You can actually contact the White House or Fox News and find out what your talking points should be regarding this book. That way you and the rest of the storm troopers will all be in lockstep.

The recording quality itself is excellent.

a great citizen of US and the World

This is a GREAT listen. I wish my writing skills for this review could do justice to his book.
He does not pull any punches going thru dozens and dozens of hot topics from Abortion, Iraq, Korea, Executions, Poverty, Religion... Each is discussed with background, facts, bible quotes for and against and a idea where this current direction will take us and ways to handle the problem more effectly.

He's a bible scholar and STRONG christian; One issue he discusses is abortion which he is against. He comes up with many great middle ground ideas. Did you know that 2/3 of women get abortions because they cant afford the kid. The current administation is actually causing more abortions with this bad economy, no health care and all the other ways it is draining money from the middle class family. Any idea why abortions are way up from the clinton years.

Straight from the news today, he talks about why Bush should not give nuclear help to India. (If you couldnt think of a few reason yourself)

To steal a statement from another reviewer
"If you are interested in what a Nobel peace prize winning thinker has to say ..."

I also listened to his book "An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood", which was great. Very much like the painted house.

A must read

This is a well presented and soundly researched work. It is must read in view of contemporary political and cultural values and trends.

A great book

A great book that is read masterfully and with perfect intonation and inflection. I highly recommend this book!

A true democrat

This affected me very much. Carter had strong convictions and stood up for those convictions, right or wrong. We should all be able to defend our beliefs and even stand firm in our defense of them.
Let us seek common ground on which we can Make America Great again. Jimmy Carter exposes major problems in our nation. Let’s fix those problems. Primarily, Too much money at the top.

The Pot Calling the Kettle Black!

There's nothing more disheartening than the American people being lectured from on high again by one of the most incompetent and dreadful Presidents to ever hold office. Please Mr. President shut up and go back to doing the good things that helped redeem your image in the first place after being soundly kicked out of office by the American people in 1980.

Pronouncements of Mr. Peanut

To hear Carter pontificate about moral values is irritating to the extreme. Here we have a lecture from the very man who brought us the Islamic revolution and betrayed the Shah of Iran -- who was a firm ally of America. This is the man who enabled the creation of the fundamentalist Islamic state which is now bent on America's destruction. Carter displays a complete lack of common sense as he criticizes a sitting American president both publicly and in his untimely book. This man is a menace to every American. If Carter was still president we would all be praising Allah.

A good idea...

This book started out pretty good, and I thought I was going to like it - but ultimately, I didn't. I had expected a book that would talk about the positive effect of virtues of 20, 30 or 40 years ago that have been lost today, but this book did not really touch on any of those. It was a very politically oriented book that was basically taking shots at the current Republican admistration - very deceptive given the title. In most cases I disagreed with Carter - this is not surprising, I am politically a conservative. What was strange to me is that we share very similar religious views, and yet I still found myself not agreeing with him on his values. Of course, this is always a danger when discussing either religion or politics - but it was much worse than usual here. I have never listened to a CS Lewis book and thought that he had completely missed the point - even when I disagreed, but that is how I felt with Mr. Carter.

Couldn't finish the book

I tried very hard to finish the story, but honestly gave up before I made it 1/3 way through the book. Mr. Carter has many talents, but I wouldn't rank audio performances as high on the list. I really wanted to support the former president in this endeavor, but cannot recommend the book. Thank you for your service, Mr. Carter, anyway.