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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents (utgåvan 2020)

av Rod Dreher (Författare)

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Christian Nonfiction. Politics. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survivors of Soviet persecution to warn American Christians of approaching dangers.
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 hasten 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 fo
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Titel:Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
Författare:Rod Dreher (Författare)
Info:Sentinel (2020), 256 pages
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Excellent ideas for Christians facing soft totalitarianism. Very encouraging. ( )
  silva_44 | Aug 23, 2023 |
Must read for all Christians! ( )
  Leann | Jun 27, 2023 |
As a first generation American with family who came from the communist lands mentioned in this work, I am familiar with the fear, anxiety, and stories of horror and oppression. It is the subsequent generations I worry will have no grasp on this evil, nor the fact that it could be resurfacing here in the West wearing a different mask.

This is one of the primary targets of this work - a message to those who are distant enough from the experience of the 20th century to have become blind to the notion that it CAN happen here, and is likely already underway. Soft totalitarianism HAS reared its ugly head in America, but we've been lulled into a trance, dismissing it as progressive ideology which is a kinder, gentler manner of existing, and bears absolutely no resemblance to the evils of the gulags, the surveillance state, or the secret police of the Soviet era.

This should be mandatory reading for those who feel even the slightest bit of discomfort living, thinking, and speaking freely in society right now. If it feels as though something is wrong, it very may well be.
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  gkorbut | Apr 7, 2023 |
Since the publication of his book, The Benedict Option, author and social commentator Rod Dreher has occupied enormous space in the consciousness of American evangelicalism. Not everyone found his initial project compelling, accusing it of being overly pessimistic and sectarian. Whether they were engaging with the merits of his argument or a caricature of it is another matter. The point remains: whether they love him or hate him, American evangelicals are emotionally invested in Rod Dreher and his work.

Live Not by Lies has made a similar ripple effect in evangelicalism. Unsurprisingly, it has garnered similar praise from conservatives. What does stand out is the intensity of the rebuttals from the progressively minded. One which Dreher himself even took time to address was that of Gregory Thompson who actually called the book “dangerous.” Even Christianity Today’s review, though much more charitable, found the book no less inflammatory.

Both reviews ultimately took issue with several of the conclusions in the first half of the book: there does exist today in America a “soft totalitarianism” that is reminiscent of the Soviet-era Marxism; that it is increasingly hostile to conservative, orthodox expressions of Christianity; and it is past time Christians did something about it. Interestingly, both reviewers begin by pointing out an almost subconscious affirmation of Dreher’s points before dedicating several paragraphs (and Thompson’s is several paragraphs!) to explaining away their initial sympathies. One cannot help but read the reviews as a kind of therapeutic exercise in doctrinal commitment: Deep down I think Dreher may be right but I’m not supposed to think that because I’m already committed to x,y,z.

This self-reflection is not wrong on its face. As Christians, we must admit our sinful inclinations and constantly check them against the revealed truth of Scripture. But we should ask ourselves if our assumptions are truly derived from Scripture. Or are we merely regurgitating the dogma of a newly branded, more progressive Evangelicalism?

One central tenet of New Evangelicalism is what has been popularly called “third-wayism.” Most attribute this doctrine to pastor and theologian Tim Keller who planted a successful, theologically conservative church in Manhattan using a church-planting model focused on urban renewal and cultural apologetics. Key to this model is the church standing in defiance of both right-wing and leftist narratives. Christians should be too conservative for their liberal friends and too liberal for their conservative friends, as the saying goes. For third-wayism, both the left and the right represent equally threatening opposition to the truth of the gospel. For every threat from the left there must be an equally dangerous threat from the right, and to focus on one to the exclusion of the other is naive at best and dangerous at worst. Thus, we arrive at the basic assumption animating the vitriol leveled against Dreher and his book.

Live Not by Lies is a warning about the looming threat of Marxist totalitarianism over American society. It is, therefore, mostly a warning about the left. That does not mean, however, that Dreher ignores liberal sympathies on the right. For every attack leveled at the state there is an equal castigation of market forces. But Dreher is astute to recognize that both fall under the umbrella of small-l liberalism. Both have swallowed many of the lies of modernity: the Grand March of Progress, scientific positivism, and the autonomous self. If Christianity stands for anything it certainly stands against these.

However, it is the concept of Progress which modern evangelicalism seems most vulnerable to. On the one hand, orthodox Christians confess progressive revelation and the idea that all creation is moving towards an eschatological destiny. But where this gets confused is when it is fused with a political Progressivism, a tendency which many otherwise orthodox Christians have adopted. It is what I have defined as “political postmillennialism,” or an eschatological confession that because God is already redeeming his people and creation for a time not yet, we ought to work for and expect sufficient progress in our institutions, like government. Where this gets confused is in the movement from obedience to expectation.

As Christians, we ought to be the first to acknowledge the reality of spiritual warfare, that the present reality of sin prevails, and things can get worse before they get better. Just ask the early martyrs. But as the reviews reveal, there is not much eagerness within evangelicalism to admit we may be moving toward temporal decline before eternal glory. It appears from the that even the overwhelming evidence of soft totalitarianism which Dreher presents in the first half of the book is not enough to shake some evangelicals. Why? Again, we must ask whether assumptions are rooted in Scripture or something else. Evangelical elites spend a lot of energy blaming the right for political idolatry. But in their eagerness to denounce so-called Christian Nationalism, I wonder if too many evangelicals have, in turn, baptized liberalism.

Still, if one is willing to concede Dreher’s point and listen to the dissidents he interviews, then there is much to be gained from the proactive, instructional portion of the book. Dreher points to religion and family as two levees to the flood of Marxist ideology. Religion provides the counter-narrative, the true story of God, man, and the world which Christians grasp on to like a buoy in the storm of competing claims. The family is the context, or the “resistance cell,” in which that story is told, providing the natural community in which the liturgy of obedience, love, and discipleship is passed down and affirmed.

In so doing, Christian dissidents create what Dreher calls a “parallel polis” which in practice does not sound all that different from what the Apostle Paul articulates in Philippians 2: “For many of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Live Not by Lies is not a book about the wait itself. It is a book about how we wait. No Christian can read the Scriptures and seriously conclude they are immune from suffering. For many it is already their present. Ultimately, Live Not by Lies is how we as Christians may wait through what Dreher predicts will be a period of totalitarianism and persecution. Will we give up or will we endure terrible suffering without losing ourselves? ( )
  rdhasler | Sep 20, 2022 |
Building off the ideas of Solzhenitsyn and others that (a) one should not live by lies of authoritarians (both political, societal, and intellectual) and (b) the Christian family is the cell of resistance against authoritarianism (both political, societal, and intellectual), Rod Dreher discusses the rot of our culture, the authoritarian tendencies of our elites (both political, societal, and intellectual), even in the supposedly free West, and how to fight back. It could be a fatter tome, but dozens of other books by conservative authors detail the lunacy of the Left, so Dreher breezes past this. His main thrust, building from Solzhenitsyn and the fight against twentieth-century Communism, is to tell the story of several dissidents, mostly Christian, in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe that lived not by lies and fought for Christian values and ideals underground. As an example it is both heartening and frightening, to think we may live in a world where Christian ethics, decency, and spirituality is officially shunned from the public square. Frightening because we are getting there: as people are abandoning churches and finding succor in statist-welfare governments and existentialist-hedonistic-nihilistic-atheistic philosophies. As such, Dreher's book serves as manual for action, not a detailed blueprint, but an overarching outline, and balm for the soul. Rightly praised by many conservative, traditionalist, and religious groups in the U.S.; I have read glowing appraisals in Modern Age, The New Criterion, and The Claremont Review. ( )
  tuckerresearch | Apr 22, 2022 |
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Christian Nonfiction. Politics. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survivors of Soviet persecution to warn American Christians of approaching dangers.
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 hasten 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 fo

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