Live Not by Lies

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.

I'm probably not in the target audience for this book, but I still found it, especially the first half, to be a sobering look at the direction the US is moving in today. Dreher says we're heading closer to “soft totalitarianism.” A culture-driven (rather than government-driven) version of the same type of totalizing of ideas as the Soviet and Maoist regimes had.

There seemed to be an imbalance in the second half of the book when Dreher starts to recommend solutions. If we really are in such a dire state, is meeting together in discussion groups in passive solidarity really what's called for? It may be part of a solution but it seems... lacking.

I recommend this book, even for non-Christians. It sheds a lot of light on what is going on today with the ever contracting window of what's allowable to think and talk about and offers some good historical frameworks for how to think about it.

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!!!