Per the review
“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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Dreher explains that we are moving from “authoritarianism” to “Totalitarianism”
The Democrats are now moving from grabbing power and authority to gaining total control of your soul, what you do, how you think, what you say......
“...something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
I have often thought we are much closer to Brave New World than 1984. Our version of bread and circuses is unprecedented in all of human experience, we have amazing conditions like the poorest being the most likely to be obese.
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Received my copy last week.
Finishing a book titled “THE BENEDICT OPTION” now, then into this one.
Interesting comments here.
Dreher’s goal is to profiteer off the agony of those whose plight he describes. He is on the same page as the professional “conservatives” who write for the Times, the Post, and National Review—the so-called “intellectuals” he so ardently admires. Meanwhile, he got the vapors every time Trump sent out a tweet and did all he could to make sure Biden won the election. Forget him and his books.
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Putting this on my list!
And if I may, because it looks like an amazing read, I just received a surprise gift today that is relevant to this thread.
A two volume book-set from the EPOCH TIMES, “How the Specter of Communism is ruling the world”.
Here are some recommended books to prepare yourself for persecution:
Foxes Book of Martyrs
Martyrs Mirror (1200+ pages. There are smaller versions)
Vanya (Myrna Grant)
Tortured for his Faith (Popov)
I Am N (Voice of the Martyrs)
Night of the Long Knives (Steven)
A Sword Over the Nile (Guindy)
The Persecutor (Sergei Kourdakov)
The Nazi Persecution of the Churches (Conway)
Suffering, Martyrdom and Rewards in Heaven (Joseph Ton)