Brett Explains Christianity On The Brett Winterble Show

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Brett Addresses the climate of suspicion that surrounds faith, especially Christianity, in today’s world. He explains how critics often frame it as oppressive, judgmental, or outdated, but argues that this perception misses the heart of the faith. Christianity, he says, is not about control but about a story rooted in self-giving love. To illustrate, Brett shares the powerful story of Maximilian Kolbe, the Catholic priest who volunteered to die in place of another prisoner at Auschwitz.

For Brett, this act of sacrificial love is the essence of Christianity—an ethic not of dominance but of surrender, forgiveness, and service. He challenges listeners to see faith not as a relic of oppression but as a revolutionary protest against despair. In a culture drowning in cynicism, Brett insists that Christianity reminds us love is stronger than death, and that true meaning comes through sacrifice, not power.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
News Talk eleven ten out of nine to three WBT Brettwitterble
show good to be with you. All right, ladies and
gentlemen out there. We live in an age of suspicion,
suspicion of institutions, of ideologies, of anything that dares to
claim moral authority, And in that climate, Christianity often finds

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itself cast as a villain, an affliction to secular minds,
a relic of oppression, a system of guilt and control,
that's what they say over on the left. But what
if they've been misunderstood entirely? What if Christianity at its

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core is not a burden but a protest, not a
power grab, but a surrender, not a threat to freedom,
but the deepest expression of love that the world has
ever known. Let me show you what I mean. The
secular critique of Christianity is familiar. It's dogmatic, it's judgmental,

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it's historically entangled with colonialism, patriarchy, and anti scientific thinking.
It tells people how to live, what to believe, and
threatens them with hell if they don't comply. And yes,
there are chapters in Christian history that deserves scrutiny, even repentance.

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But to reduce Christianity to its worst abuses by human beings,
by humans doing. It's like judging music by the worst lyrics.
It misses the melody, it misses the soul. Because Christianity
is not at heart a system of control. It's a story,

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and stories, especially true ones, have the power to change everything.
One hundred million streams yesterday people were watching for five
six straight hours. That says something. So let's talk about

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the story that shatters cynicism, shall we. Let me tell
you a story. In Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp, a
man was sentenced to die. He cried out, my wife,
my children, and then something happened that defies explanation. A

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Catholic priest named Maximilian Kolby stepped forward and said, I'm
a Catholic priest. Let me take his place. I am old,
he has a family. The guards agreed. Colby was thrown

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into a starvation cell. He led the other prisoners in prayer,
and when he didn't die fast enough, the Nazis injected
him with poison. The man he saved lived to tell
the story. Now pause, Let that sink in. This wasn't

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a sermon, It wasn't a theological debate. It was a
man saying, for the love of a stranger, let me
take his place. That is Christianity, not a doctrine, not
a dogma, a defiant act of love in the face
of hell. So when someone says Christianity is an affliction,

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I ask is Colby's sacrifice oppressive? Is it manipulative? Is
it irrational? Because if it is, then love itself is irrational.
Then compassion is weakness. Then the highest good is survival

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and nothing more. But if Colby's act means something, if
it stirs something in you, then you've already glimpsed the
heart of Christianity. It's not about being right, it's about
being willing to die for someone else's life. And that's

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the ethic of self giving love. It's not just noble.
It's revolutionary in the kind of ethic that built hospitals,
ended slavery, and inspired movements for justice across the centuries.

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It's the kind of ethic that says you are not alone,
you are not forgotten, you are worth dying for. Christianity
at its best is a metaphysical protest against despair. It
says the universe is not indifferent, love is stronger than death.

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The highest good is not power but sacrifice. It's not
a religion of winners. It's a religion of the crucified.
It doesn't say be perfect. It says be willing, willing
to forgive, willing to serve, willing to suffer for the

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sake of someone else's dignity. And that message, whether you
believe in God or not, is one that the world
desperately needs because we're drowning in cynicism, we're starving for meaning.
We're terrified that love is just a chemical trick. Christianity

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says no, Love is the point. So the next time
someone says Christianity is an affliction, tell them about Colbe.
Tell them about the man who said, let me take
his place. Then ask what kind of world would we

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have if more people lived like that? What would that
world look like? What would that feeling be? What can
you do to affect not necessarily a heroic change, but

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a small change that builds into something bigger. It's easy
to have a political fight, it's easy to have a
political argument. It's easy to do all of those things.
And at the end of the day, as your head
hits the pillow and as your eyes close, that small

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chapter is forgotten. The sacrifice is what it's about.