You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about the ongoing conflict in Iran from the perspective of just war theory.

We're also going to talk about the plummeting rates of young people identifying as LGBT.

So we have a lot to get to this week.

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Welcome to Breakpoint this week.

From the Kulson Center for Christian Worldview.

I'm Maria Baer, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Kulson Center.

John, I want to jump right into what's going on in the Middle East.

You had a special bonus episode of Breakpoint this week earlier with Dr. Eric Patterson, who is a Christian theologian who's written extensively about the just war theory and tradition in Christian thought and in ethics. I thought that was a really helpful conversation.

If you haven't listened to that yet,

do go back and listen to that bonus episode

from earlier this week.

I'm assuming most of our listeners know

that last weekend we initiated a strike in Iran

that we now know killed the Ayatollah,

as well as most of Iran's military leaders.

Iran has responded by bombing several nations.

Nelly Bowles at the free press was like,

they're just throwing deck chairs at this point, wherever they can manage.

It's been a very one-sided in terms of success, conflict. We along, our military along with Israel,

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