Tragedy and Faith On The Brett Winterble Show

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Brett kicks off the program by talking about the devastating terrorist attack at a Catholic school and church in Minnesota, where two children were killed, 14 others wounded, and several adults injured. As a Catholic himself, he reflects on the sanctity of Mass as a place of peace and worship, now shattered by violence. Shifting from the tragedy, Brett delivers a passionate message about culture’s corrosive impact on children and families, warning that society’s erosion of values has created fertile ground for chaos and despair. He urges parents and communities to stand firm as shields for their children, instilling faith, charity, and godly values as a foundation for life. Brett stresses that the future depends on raising children with courage, grace, and conviction, declaring that surrender is not an option. His message is both a lament over tragedy and a call to rise as guardians of light in a darkening world.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
News Talk eleven ten ninety nine to three WBT. It's
the Brett Witterbule Show. Seven oh four five seven zero
eleven ten, seven oh four five seven zero eleven ten.
And obviously, unless you have not yet heard, we saw
a We saw a terrorist attack that took place on
a Catholic school and a Catholic church in Minnesota earlier today,

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and we know two children are dead, fourteen children are wounded,
three adults are injured during a mass in the United
States of America. Now there's no secret. I'm Catholic, and
you know, I go to Mass, and my family's Catholic,

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and we go to Mass, and Mass is a place
where you're supposed to be able to go and worship.
You know, I had a couple of back and forths
in the last like two weeks. Every once in a while,
people kind of come at you and they'll say things
about your faith or whatever it is. And you know,
I never get mad about it. People can have their opinions,

(01:27):
people can say what they want to say. They believe
that they know their way and we know our way.
But I think there's something important that has to happen here.
I'm not going to name this demon, I never do.
I am not going to acknowledge what this SOB did,

(01:50):
but I want to harken back to a conversation that
I sort of overheard a number of months ago, and
it's very interesting to me. So I heard this man
talking to another man. I just I happened to just
be an earshot, and he said, he said he did

(02:16):
not understand how his kid had changed so much. His son,
once joyful, curious, full of light, had grown angry, withdrawn, unreachable.
The father looked at the other guy, and he actually

(02:37):
had tears in his eyes, and he asked, where did
I lose him? Well, the fact of the matter is
he didn't lose his son. The culture took his son.
The culture took his son. This culture, this loud, this seductive,

(02:59):
this corrosive force has declared war on innocence. And it's
been that way for a very long time. It doesn't
just entertain, It indoctrinates, It doesn't just distract. It devours.
And if we let it raise our children, we will

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not simply lose them. We will lose the future. We
see the symptoms everywhere. Children who mock faith before they
understand it, deens who chase pleasure before they know the purpose.
Young adults who reject discipline before they've built anything worth protecting.

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It's not evolution, it's erosion. And I say to you,
and I hope everybody else says this, not on my watch,
Not on my watch. We must build our kids. We
must build our children not on the shifting sands of

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popular opinion, but on the eternal foundation of faith and
charity and godly values, period full stop. We have tried
it with the public schools. We have tried it with
all the new fads. Faith teaches them who they are,
Charity teaches them how to love, Godly values, teach them

(04:36):
how to live. These are not relics of the past.
They're actually the antidote to chaos. Have you had enough
chaos in your life? Have you had enough chaos in
the country. We the living, still have the power to
affect change. We're not helpless, we're not outnumbered. We are

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are simply called to rise. To rise. You can be
the shield between your child and the abyss. You can
be the shield between your child and the abyss. If
you saw your child drowning out in a pool or

(05:21):
in the ocean, you would do everything you could to
save them, to pull them back. You can be the
voice that actually drowns out the noise. You can be
the reason your family stands firm when the world is shaking. Yes,

(05:44):
we see fallen people at every turn. Yes, we are
surrounded by demons of despair, division, and moral decay. Boy,
do we have a bumper crop of more decay. Just
go through the channels. But we must never give in,

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because the moment we surrender is the moment we lose
the future. So let me make it clear. No civilization
has ever survived the erosion of its values. If we
want a future worth living in, we must raise children

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who know what truth is and why it matters. So
I ask you, are you going to be a guardian
of that light? Are you going to be a builder
of their souls? Will you be the voice that says,
not my child, not on my watch, not on your child,
not on your watch. The culture has to be loud,

(06:51):
but our conviction must be louder. Let us raise children
who want to walk with courage, speak with grace, and
live with conviction. What happened today cannot be undone. But
we know those who are hurting now are being comforted

(07:13):
by God, this demon that tried to steal the joy sadly, horrifically,
horribly has chosen his own destination, and we will never
see him again. We will never see him again. Let

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us raise warriors of light in a world that's grown dark.
Let us be the generation that stood firm, not the
one that looked away. Because if we do, then the
demons don't win. And we know the demons don't win.
We've already won. The monsters will not multiply, and the

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future will not be lost because that is all we
can do. You have to work to do this every day,
in every way, so that the future will not be lost.