“President Jimmy Carter verbatim said, “evangelical Christianity has been hijacked by people who would have given Jesus himself the boot if he knocked on their door.”
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in a Threads post. Claim dated 29 Dec 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Social media posts are falsely attributing this quote about “evangelical Christianity” being “hijacked” to Jimmy Carter as if it were a verbatim quote. These words were used in a 2005 Minnesota Star Tribune article, but they were a paraphrase, not a direct quote.
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 29 December 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 December 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
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