Live Not by Lies
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For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft" totalitarianism cropping up in America--something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. Identity politics are beginning to encroach on every aspect of life. Civil liberties are increasingly seen as a threat to "safety". Progressives marginalize conservative, traditional Christians, and other dissenters. Technology and consumerism hastens the possibility of a corporate surveillance state. And the pandemic, having put millions out of work, leaves our country especially vulnerable to demagogic manipulation.
In Live Not By Lies, Dreher amplifies the alarm sounded by the brave men and women who fought totalitarianism. He explains how the totalitarianism facing us today is based less on overt violence and more on psychological manipulation. He tells the stories of modern-day dissidents--clergy, laity, martyrs, and confessors from the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Europe--who offer practical advice for how to identify and resist totalitarianism in our time. Following the model offered by a prophetic World War II-era pastor who prepared believers in his Eastern European to endure the coming of communism, Live Not By Lies teaches American Christians a method for resistance:
• SEE: Acknowledge the reality of the situation.
• JUDGE: Assess reality in the light of what we as Christians know to be true.
• ACT: Take action to protect truth.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said that one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming totalitarianism can't happen in their country. Many American Christians are making that mistake today, sleepwalking through the erosion of our freedoms. Live Not By Lies will wake them and equip them for the long resistance.
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Interesting and thought provoking book.
A must read for Christians worried about the direction our world is headed.
A book full of sobering but encouraging stories.
An important read to help you remember to learn from the past, so as not to repeat it.
Highly recommend.
Wow! Simply Wow!
If you haven't read this yet, it NEEDS to be your next book.
Are you a Christian? A conservative? Anyone who opposes the ideology that is sweeping the world and taking over every institution in society? Maybe you haven't been able to put a name to it (read Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay to explore that), but you probably feel the changes that have been coming, slowly at first, but now at an accelerating pace.
People who lived in the Eastern Bloc countries at the end of World War 2 recognize this feeling and the societal change all too well. They went through it before and they see what is going on now. In this book by Rod Dreher he talks about his discussions with these very people and what they recommend Americans do about it.
This is a very practical book and one I think I might even read again later this year. To take notes and start making plans.
If you are an average American who holds the classically liberal beliefs that have created this country (freedom, individual liberty, autonomy of self, enlightenment values, loosely Judeo-Christian morality)....
You simply MUST READ THIS BOOK ASAP!!!
