10 Friday, October 1, 1976 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS `The Man From Plains' Discusses Carter's Views on Jewish Role, U.S. Issues Democratic presiden- tial candidate Jimmy Carter has decided views on such subjects as sep- aration of church and state, abortion, taxation, ERA and other issues. His answers to many- challenges will be found in the just-published in "The Man From Plains: The Mind and Spirit of Jimmy Carter," just pub- lished by Harper and Row. David Kucharsky, the author of this definitive work, whose journalistic 'record includes numer- ous important newspaper and magazine affilia- tions, is currently the managing editor of Chris- tianity Today, a leading Evangelical magazine. Religious issues are discussed and Carter is presented as strong ad- vocate of the the` position of his Baptist church in support of the church- state separation princi- INSTANT PASSPORT & I.D. PHOTOS • In Living Color • 10 Min. Del. • Professional Quality • Call Today For Info • Another Leo Knight FIRST LEO KNIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY 26571 W. 12 Mile Rd. 352-7030 ple. Other issues especially related to Jews are touched upon and the Car- ter views give assurance of the presidential candi- date's position in defense of religious liberties. Carter is quoted as pre- dicting that the cultural assertiveness of religion will become a growing force in shaping our communal future. "The changing attitude of the Jewish community is said to be one example of the trend away from secularism in American life. Thirty years ago, Neuhaus said, "it seemed to many that the security and prosperity of Jewry would be best assured by a thoroughly secularized society, at least in the public realm. Today that does not seem so evi- dent." "Among the reasons for this change of attitude," he commented, is that "in a thoroughly secularized society there is no final, absolute barrier against evil, including the evil of anti-Semitism." "One way of looking at the new religious picture is to describe it as going the way of sex. People for the most part have been as uncomfortable in talk- ing of personal religious experience as they used to be in discussing the more intimate aspects of the procreative process. "Until recently, as Christians and Jews main- tained walls of privacy around their innermost beliefs, religion cropped up in conversation only in broad, abstract terms. A personal religious discus- sion tended to focus on - ethical issues on a social scale or on major con- troversies such as whether priests should marry or women should be or- dained. "Ask someone, Are you saved? and the reaction would border on trauma. "We were culturally conditioned to believe that the precise nature and extent of one's faith was so personal that any attempt to transcend it was unwarranted intru- sion. One's relationship to God was regarded as such an intangible that he or she could do little more than joke about it. Even churchgoers were often cynical about the indi- vidual spiritual state and the prospect of life after. death. "Many people obvi- ously still feel this way, but a fresh openness to deal with spiritual realities has been de- veloping steadily." On matters relating to church-state separation and the Jewish role in his religious attitudes, Carter is quoted by Kucharsky: "A totally different and perhaps more serious kind of anxiety arose over Carter among some American Jews, who had also been made uneasy by such high-visibility evengelical events as the 1966 World, Congress on Evangelism in Berlin and the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland. Jews were contacted by Carter and his people all over the country in an ef- fort to emphasize Car- ter's personal belief in the separation of church and state — a principle tradi- tionally held by Baptists. "I also believe," he told Jews, "that this is a coun- try where anyone's own religious beliefs should not be a matter of pre- judice or concern . . . of all the people in the world who should have the least prejudice because of another's religious .faith, it should certainly be you.' •• Carter added that he was reliying heavily on the belief that "the people of our country have an understanding and lack of prejudice. - He issued a reminder that Southern Baptists are particularly proud of their local church autonomy, which means they never con- sider themselves subser- vient to ecclesiastical hierarchy. In a New Jer- sey appearance before the Jewish community, Carter, wearing a blue velvet yarmulke, closed his address by remarking that in 1945 when the Un- ited States became the first country to recognize the new state of Israel the president was Harry Truman, a Baptist. 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