Brett served a mission and went to BYU where he studied the sciences. He then became atheist and after years of thoughtful studying was reconciled to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

"I've read a lot about history, like the founding fathers and enlightenment and tried to really get into their heads of how they thought. I feel like they had a kind of expansive view of Christ. They thought that His teachings of the golden rule applied not only to bringing brownies to your neighbor, but also in big things like how you structure the government. I feel like what's happened over time is kind of a shrinkage where if you have problems with your plumbing, you call a plumber. You're not like, oh, let me go look in the Bible. Over time, I think what's happened is if you have an economics question or if you have an ethics question, you go to the economist, or you go to the ethicist. I feel like what's happened is that the influence that Jesus has and the gospel has is kind of shrinking as it's being crowded out by these secular theories, which again, if they pointed back to gospel truths, that would be okay, but they didn't seem to, at least in my opinion. So that was one last thing that just drove me crazy. I had to figure out who was right. Either the economists are right or Jesus is right. My money's on Jesus."

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Come Back Team:

Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone

Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose

Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson

Editor: Michelle Berger

Art Director: Jeremy Garcia

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.
0:07.0	Well Brett, I'm so excited to have you on the podcast. When you emailed me I thought of somebody in particular that would probably really benefit from this episode and so I'm really
0:25.0	excited to just record your story and have everybody hear it. You know if I know
0:31.0	somebody I'm sure there's a lot more people that would really benefit from hearing so yeah I'd love to start with just hearing a little bit about you and just some context for who you are and then we can jump into your story.
0:42.0	Yeah and thanks again for having me on. for who you are and then we can jump into your story.
0:44.6	Yeah, and thanks again for having me on.
0:49.4	It's, I think it's a great work that you're doing, looking through the episodes, looks very interesting and I think helpful for a lot of people.
0:51.3	So, yeah. So as far as, you know, background, I guess my story,
0:56.8	let's see, so I grew up in the church.
0:58.5	My parents were both, you know, very active when I was growing up.
1:01.6	They both grew up in the Salt Lake area. I grew up in a little town
1:04.7	called Garnerville, Nevada outside of Lake Tahoe. You know we weren't that family that has like multiple generations of like
1:10.9	Sterling, you know pioneer stock, right?
1:13.7	We were a little bit more rough around the edges.
1:17.4	Both my parents grew up in the Salt Lake area
1:19.4	and both of their families were inactive for different reasons. On my mom's side of the family there was a lot of
1:26.4	kind of religious fanaticism and so my grandpa my mom's dad he just decided you know they
1:32.2	had some family numbers that were
1:34.1	leaders of polygamous breakaway groups and things like that and you looked at the
1:37.4	landscape and I was like you know what I think we're just gonna we're just gonna get
1:40.4	out ahead of this and become inactive.
1:42.6	So, and so I thought it was kind of funny.
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