Cap’n seems to set the record straight on Jimmy Carter’s Jesus-blew-it-thing. He writes, in part:

What a revealing moment! Carter wishes that Jesus and the Devil had reached across the aisle, found room for compromise, and created a bridge between Heaven and Hell! Well, except that wasn’t what Carter meant — and the next paragraph in Living Faith made the point rather plain:
But the devil stipulated fatal provisos: an abandonment of God, and an acknowledgment of earthly things as dominant. … Anyone who accepts kingship based on serving the devil rather than God will end up a tyrant, not a benevolent leader. Far from lamenting the weird Millenium of a Jesus-led kingdom of atheists, Carter makes the rather obvious point that what gave Jesus his singularity was the devotion to the divine. Carter offers the rather satirical notion of a deal with the Devil to reject it, not to embrace it. It’s a point that practically anyone who reads the Bible can understand, as long as it’s taken in context with Carter’s final paragraph of the article.
Macomber owes his readers a correction and Carter an apology. If we want to debate Carter, let’s stick to the already extensive record without reducing our credibility by distorting his words.