In the thread discussing St. Paul's take on same-sex marriage, a theory was proffered that, if it's fully understood, leads to praise for Vladimir Putin. While the whole world gangs up on Putin, in truth, Putin is more like the character John Galt in Putin's fellow citizen's universally renown book Atlas Shrugged.
Though today's Christians pile on to the gang rape of Putin, their ancient ancestors, to include St. Paul, and the other Apostles, would be appalled at the Putin haters and not at Putin himself; they'd be appalled that Christians have become so blind and so willing to sell their soul for a crust of bread from their globalist, universalist, humanist, masters.
May our Lord strengthen Putin and enfeeble the feeble-minded oblivious to the fact that in their lust to destroy Putin they're actually destroying the world with whom they're so madly in love (1 John 2:15).
John
God said "thou shalt not kill." President W. Bush lied us into war with the Taliban (religious and political leaders of Afghanistan) and Iraq by conflating 911 terrorism with them. Actually, the Taliban had captured bin Laden and his top aides just 9 days after the 911 attack and offered to turn them over to the United States if they proved a link to terrorism (which they could not do). W. Bush attacked it's own allies (the Taliban) because they didn't do exactly as demanded when W. Bush ordered them to do so. Then W. Bush "bore false witness" against the Taliban." Again, W. Bush "bore false witness" against Iraq, calling one of their leaders the "Doctor of Death." Granted, the Taliban and Saddam (Iraq) were not nice people, and did horrible things to their own people, they were not the immediate threat to the US.
President W. Bush then tried to lie us into a war with Niger, and sent Wilson to lie about Niger selling yellow-cake Uranium to Iraq. Wilson refused to lie, so Dick Cheney (the real leader of the US), Donald Rumsfeld, and W. Bush outed Wilson's CIA wife (Valery Plame) as punishment. Many CIA agents died because they were overseas and associated with Plame.
W. Bush is a hunted man, for war crimes against peaceful nations and torture camps around the world (in Iraq, reported by the International Red Cross, who was bombed by friendly fire and the reporters were killed), (in Guantanamo, Cuba, Camp X-ray and Camp Delta, where prisoners were water-boarded in ice-water until they got frostbite, gangrene, and amputations, fed yellow stinky water that was designed not cause horrible stomach aches, and forced to sin against their God sexually, etc). W. Bush had refused to allow a World Court to form because he would have been arrested for war crimes, and currently cannot fly to many nations (like Canada) or he will be arrested as a war criminal and forced to stand trial at the Hague.
In order to have peace in the world, we have to understand the geopolitical facts. Those facts are hidden from us by the cancel culture. It is the same cancel culture that prevented President Donald Trump from talking. Free speech, free assembly, and the right to sue are important to preserve our freedom of religion. Without those basic Constitutional rights, our ability to belief, as we want to, is seriously compromised. More and more the US is becoming like the Iron Curtain (Soviet Union under Stalin). Radio communicaitno and TV and the internet no longer allow us to hear what Putin (or others) have to say.
Putin (that is, Russia) was being surrounded by NATO nations ....each former member of the Soviet bloc had joined NATO, and the threat to Russia was palpable. Yet, Putin was unable to resolve the conflict. It was very similar to the Bay of Pigs (Cuban Missile Crisis in which Soviets built a working nuclear missile base merely 75 miles off of the coast of Florida). Putin did the same thing that President John Kennedy during the Bay of Pigs...he attacked to mitigate the threat to his nation, failing to convince the UN to help him. Furthermore, Putin felt that the people of Ukraine wanted to join Russia (they were a part of the Soviet Union, at one time). Ukrainians took a vote, and the people wanted to join Russia. Yet, the leader of Ukraine wanted to retain his power and he was willing to sacrifice his people, his buildings, and his economy, and threaten world war, with other nations aligning to fight Russia, just to keep that power. The logical thing to do was to diplomatically negotiate with Putin and the Ukraine, to find a peaceful way of merging and allowing all to retain their political power.
Prior to his invasion of the Ukraine, Putin had objected to a Ukrainian football team and folks dressed as NAZIs murdering Russians in the Ukraine. His people were being murdered on the streets, and the perpetrators were not brought to justice, nor did anyone in the Ukraine lift a finger to stop them. Naturally, Putin felt that this was an act of war. Thus, this war, in Putin's mind, is justified.
In order to stop this violence, the UN (led by the US) has to let the world know what is really going on, rather than letting the cancel culture hide the facts from the world. Then the UN needs to negotiate a peaceful settlement.
The US is no match for Russia or China. Having had SALT agreements with the Soviets for decades, and having cut back on the nuclear missile forces, the rest of the world has caught up and surpassed the US. China just fired mach 10 missiles over an American aircraft carrier in the China Sea. The US only has mach 5 nuclear missiles. The US has no means of shooting Russia's Satan II nuclear missiles out of the sky, unless the few SDI (Starwars) satellites are still, after all these years (30 years) are capable of shooting them down, but there is no way that the US could get them all, nor does the US have enough SDI satellites to block all of them. The Satan II nukes have 15 megaton energy. Compare this with the 20 kiloton bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima during WW II (that's nearly 1,000 times the energy). Other nations (Israel, Pakistan, the crazy leader of North Korea, and India) similarly have nukes.
Are Russian missiles shielded to prevent SDI (particle and beam weapons) from shooting them down? Are Safe and Arm devices (switches sealed with an inert gas (Argon) inside nuclear missiles that activate by radio signals and the acceleration of a launched missile) still good after 30 years (or more) of disuse? Or, did the inert gas leak out and the old switches get corroded. Can the US launch its aging nuke forces? The US spent a fortune fighting Iraq, using helicopters and machine guns. But these are not the weapons for a nuclear war, and the US is not prepared to fight one. As I had explained to Dr. Applegate, inventor of the Safe and Arm devices, 40 years ago, the resistors were already out of tolerance, and absorbed water which would get them out of tolerance. I suggested, instead, sealed resistors, so that they would pass DCAS inspection and stay in tolerance longer.
Edgar Cayce (psychic) said that there would be a great war fought between the great powers of earth. Could this be the trigger for that war?
While no one is praising Russia or Putin, we should at least understand him, and understand how to stop this war before it gets out of hand and starts WW III (a nuclear conflict that should last about 30 minutes). All sides would rue the day that a nuclear war occurred.
God said "thou shalt not kill"......now how do we make that happen?