Jimmy Carter On Evangelicals: "Some Christians...Believe A Certain Interpretation Of Revelations, That In My Opinion are Quite Weird..."

BEN: We are essentially out of time and only have time for one more question, talking to the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter. Mr. President, you are an Evangelical Christian, how do you account then for the sort of rabid support for everything Israel does without qualification from so many Evangelical Christian leaders in this country, and how do you think that influences the administrations politics?

CARTER: Some Christians who I know very well, very devout people, believe a certain interpretation of Revelations, that in my opinion are quite weird, in that in the coming of Christ that the holy land has to be occupied by the Jews and not by anyone else and then in the end that all Jews will have to be killed or either converted to Christianity. This is a very seriously distorted interpretation of the Scriptures that I am very familiar with.

BEN: President Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, it was real pleasure. Thanks for coming on the show, interesting as always to talk with you.

CARTER: Have a good day, thank you very much.

CENK: Thank you, and the book is Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

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