DIGG.com: Carter: Bush's presidency has been 'worst in history'

Former President Jimmy Carter recently launched some aggressive comments at the Bush Presidency, calling it the ' worst in history'.

While I tend to agree with everything Carter said about Bush's policies from Iraq, to the overall policies of preemptive war, the environmental stances Bush has demonstrated, the most telling of Carter's rebukes was of Bush's 'faith based initiatives'.

I have a sore spot for religion getting involved in politics and government, so for me, the extreme involvement and power that many religious organizations in this country (the 'religious right' some have called it) is to the detrement of every citizen in the US as well as to the people who live outside our borders.

The reason I found it very interesting for Carter to include this policy on his shortlist of Bush blunders is because he himself is a devout and committed Baptist.

Carter talks of the $2.15 Billion given out to various religious charities during the Bush Administration, many of which use this money only for their own specific constituency (i.e Evangelical groups using money only to help other Evangelicals). He believes in a seperation of Church and state, and that religion should not creep into political policies of fiscal grants.

It is VERY refreshing for me to hear a person who has been a leader in this country, who is also devout, talk with common sense, as it has been lacking in both the religious comunities and political fields on the topics of church and state for as long as the Bush Administration has been in power.