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Why on earth are some Christians saying that God is using Putin to cleanse Ukraine of immorality?

It's time for the line of fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown,

your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity.

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And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown.

Welcome, welcome to the line of fire.

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A little later in the show, I'm going to give you some encouraging news about cultural pushback,

things we've been talking about for years and years saying that those on the radical left will overplay their hand.

Well, it's happening in front of our eyes.

I want to bring you some encouragement, some updates on that.

But first, a very interesting situation unfolding in the midst of the tragic loss of life in Ukraine right now,

in the midst of the bombings, in the midst of the war with Russia invading Ukraine.

There's a very interesting narrative that has developed, and it is very disturbing to me as well. And it is basically saying that somehow God is using Vladimir

Putin to cleanse Ukraine of immorality or to bring judgment on Ukraine because of its, it's increasingly liberal

values. And this is, this is Putin standing up for what's right and Putin standing up for,

for ethics and morality. And that's why he's slaughtering these Ukrainians. Now, if, if you think

that Putin has justification for his actions, if you think that, in fact,

there is a good reason for Putin to be doing what he's doing, a good moral reason for Putin

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