Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Friday, March the 11th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

Hassan is an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy.

When Russia invaded his country, his mother, a widow, was unable to

travel because she had to stay with her sick mother. So she sent her son out of the country on a

train by himself with only a plastic bag, a passport, and a telephone number written on his

hand. He traveled roughly 620 miles to Slovakia to meet

relatives. After he arrived safely, she said, I am grateful that they saved the life of my child.

Vladimir Putin clearly considers expanding the Russian Empire worth the lives of thousands of Hassans.

The first fact we discover about humans in God's word is that we are each made in the image and likeness of God.

In Genesis 127, we learned that God created man in his own image.

We're even told male and female, he created them. Clearly,

every male and every female is equally valuable in the eyes of his or her maker. From then,

until now, nearly every sin we commit against each other is a violation of this fact. Cain considered Abel's life worth less than his own.

Joseph's brothers felt the same about him.

From Egypt's enslavement of the Hebrews to the Western world's enslavement of Africans,

sex traffickers enslaving their victims today,

and nearly every other kind of crime in the day's news,

we see all around us the horrific consequences of rejecting Genesis 127.

In this sense, Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a contemporary example of a tragic story as old as humanity.

His communist upbringing and KGB career taught him the communist worldview with its depreciation of the individual as a means to the end of the state.

The New York Times reports this morning that the war has taken a decidedly darker turn with

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