Summary Of Our Endangered Values By Jimmy Carter

Our Endangered Values by former President of the United States of America, James Earl Carter Jr. (Jimmy Carter), is a book which discusses America’s “moral crisis.” The aforementioned crisis concerns heavily debated political issues since President Carter’s term, including abortion, gay rights, foreign policy, and the death penalty, and discusses President Carter’s views on such topics. He speaks of his contention between his religion, Christianity and his own political beliefs, as a Democrat (Left-Wing), and in his book, often compares biblical values to current left-wing values. President Carter also reminisces his time at the White House, and discusses his change in beliefs from his term in the White House (1977-1981) to circa 2005, when Our Endangered Values was released. There is no overarching argument in this book; however President Carter makes several different arguments towards recent political
President Carter shows the way one’s belief system can change, and not always be cut and dry towards their political party, or religion.

In this book, President Carter makes several different arguments for many different beliefs. Although some of President Carter’s arguments were well made, the majority were made from a religious perspective which hindered his argument. Although the very point of this book is to argue from a religious perspective, the idea of arguing from a religious perspective is not the most efficient one. For example, in arguing against the death penalty, President Carter discusses the Bible preferring a policy of clemency rather than a death penalty. He