Remembering Gorbachev, and an Important New Book on Homosexuality and the Bible

The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network from the legacy of Miko Gorbachev to new important book about homosexuality and Christianity is recovered today for the light a fire with your host scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown your voice more so and spiritual clarity. Call 866-34-TRUTHs to get on the line of fire and now there's your host Dr. Michael Brown want to fire today's going to be an eye opening broadcast at the bottom of the hour will be joined by MD Perkins to talk about his new book on dangerous affirmation with the threat of quote gay Christianity really start today talking about Michelle Gorbachev who passed away yesterday at the age of 91. One. Reflect on some things that I think will be important for our perspective.

Today Michael Brown. Welcome to the broadcast I got a question for you before we get to the heart of things. How many of you are old enough to remember when there was speculation that Gorbachev was the antichrist. How many remember I tweeted about that only share some of the responses that I got from that I quit about that lesson quite a few people said oh yeah I do remember you. Remember if you remember that. What did you hear what you sinking what was going around 866-34-TRUTH. Give me a call 8663 4-H 7884 okay Gorbachev was a younger leader came to power after the old guard of the Communist Party and the leaders of the Soviet Union, it seemed to fail almost in their old age and weakness. They seem to be a picture of of a failing a failing regime. Gorbachev came in as kind of a whiz kid and just in his 40s. This was so young for leader of that stature and he saw that the West was getting ahead in different ways, and the change needed to come so he was the last leader of the Soviet Union as we knew it for many years in this signal.

Some of the end of the Cold War, so he he tried to advocate what was called Perestroika reform and glasnost's openness, although he was still a strong communist leader and there was not a whole lot of freedom of speech allowed in the country that don't mistake it for America or other countries. But he did bring about some dramatic changes and then the big thing is, it was under his leadership, that the Berlin wall came down and in this. This is what I want to talk to about there are many good things Gorbachev did there things that he didn't do all right, you still get was a communist leader but there were some major major breakthroughs that was the end of the Cold War that and then of course with the dissolution of the Soviet empire could well be that Vladimir Putman wants to reconstitute the Soviet empire.

The Soviet Union, but this was the dissolution of it in in his day as one Republic after another broke away and they remain almost all of them broke away to this day, but it started with the Berlin wall.

So after World War II. As you know, sometime after Wilbur to a wall is directed to separate East Berlin from Westmoreland divides families divides communities in East Berlin was part of East Germany which was one of the most oppressive communist regimes on the planet that I remember seeing East Germany when dramatically that disproportionately they would win all these gold medals in the Olympics and and we were told about fruit from early on. They look for kids that could be good athletes in the name they begin to train them and will that was part of it that are very rigorous program. There is also a lot of a performance-enhancing drugs and those kind of things brought for the scandals, but very closed oppressive system still love atheism in that part of Germany disproportionately so as a legacy to the years of communism but in his most famous speech Ronald Reagan stands in front of the Berlin wall and says these memorable words, some of you remember hearing them for others you may know the story, but maybe you never heard the words let's listen to President Reagan behind me stands a wall that encircled the preceptors of the city part of a vast system of barrier divides the entire continent of Europe, general Sec. Gorbachev.

If you seek peace if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. If you see liberalization come here to visit. Mr. Gorbachev, open his trough tear down will, an announcement was incorrectly made that the wall was coming down and people swarmed the wall begin to tear it down well what would been done in the past. If there's any such attempt shoot the people on the spot. Send out the tanks put it down. What happened Gorbachev but it come down whatever his motivation was not stepping in noninterfering and not using violence as would been done in the past the wall came down historic moment in the 20th century. The turning point and then in the aftermath of that is freedom and liberation K now you've got a unified German or Little by little skin work towards reunification. Now you now you've got other other parts of the Soviet bloc breaking away and that was the end of the Soviet Union so that was the beginning of the end wall coming down so the first thing that I want to communicate you is this, that dramatic change can happen suddenly and out of the blue with with massive repercussions. The ripple effect can be massive. I just want to put this before you.

I I am not a historian in terms of history of the modern world. I am anything but an expert on Russia or the Soviet Union so I knew would little I know some men you know the same. Many of you know more, so I'm not weighing hand to say, but the reflectors as a historian of modern Russian history expert amount of Russian history limit reflect on the contributions of Michelle Gorbachev stresses weaknesses. I must want to do that others will do thousand times better than but what I can do is a spiritual leaders as someone functioning as is your forcible center then spiritual clarity as is someone seeking to get a spiritual lesson from natural things seeking to reflect you never really know what will will will be the straw that breaks the camel's back will be the crack in the dam that takes the whole damn doubt what will open up a flood of radical and dramatic change. Think of this in America.

We were having growing racial tension in America. There, there was that the shooting of my namesake Michael Brown Ferguson Missouri that that triggered a lot of riots and and and unrest across America but it was only with the killing of George Floyd by a policeman that things so the triggered lettuce in America but around the world and the rebirthing of BLM and things that that I'm not commenting on all those events I'm not making a statement about any of this. I'm simply saying one event triggered a whole lot in America looks and feels different afterwards. For better or for worse. This is what happens Hope this is the way history often unfolds that something happens. Suddenly, out of the blue, or seemingly suddenly out of the blue, but it's often something rising rising rising rising and it becomes a turning point to watch another documentary on Woodstock. It was produced after 50 years, and reflecting back on things and and maybe the biggest take away from this major event in August 1969 involving over 400,000 people in upstate New York that the biggest take away and watch it something I knew already, but was reminded of that that this was the validation of the hippie dream. This was the proof that hundreds of thousands of people could come together and it was it was peace and it was love and result violence. There is no hatred and you know this kind of utopian.

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