Summary of Rod Dreher's Live Not by Lies

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 A priest named Tomislav Poglajen fled Croatia in 1943 and settled in Czechoslovakia. He knew how the Soviets thought, and he warned the Slovak Catholics that when the war ended, Czechoslovakia would fall to a Soviet puppet government.
#2 Father Kolaković knew that the passivity and clericalism of traditional Slovak Catholicism would not be able to withstand communism. He taught his followers that every person must be accountable to God for his actions, and that freedom is responsibility.
#3 The Czech priest, who was exiled by the communist regime in 1946, was the country’s spiritual father. His top two lieutenants, physician Silvester Krčméry and priest Vladimír Jukl, quietly set up Christian circles around the country and began to build the underground church.
#4 Kolaković’s warning about the threat of Soviet communism was not supernatural, but rather the result of extensive study of Soviet communism and its methods. Today, we are seeing the return of left-winged campus kookiness, but this time it is being brought to the entire country.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Catholicisme
• Christian Living
• Spiritual formation

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669355151
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Rod Dreher's Live Not by Lies
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

A priest named Tomislav Poglajen fled Croatia in 1943 and settled in Czechoslovakia. He knew how the Soviets thought, and he warned the Slovak Catholics that when the war ended, Czechoslovakia would fall to a Soviet puppet government.

#2

Father Kolaković knew that the passivity and clericalism of traditional Slovak Catholicism would not be able to withstand communism. He taught his followers that every person must be accountable to God for his actions, and that freedom is responsibility.

#3

The Czech priest, who was exiled by the communist regime in 1946, was the country’s spiritual father. His top two lieutenants, physician Silvester Krčméry and priest Vladimír Jukl, quietly set up Christian circles around the country and began to build the underground church.

#4

Kolaković’s warning about the threat of Soviet communism was not supernatural, but rather the result of extensive study of Soviet communism and its methods. Today, we are seeing the return of left-winged campus kookiness, but this time it is being brought to the entire country.

#5

Modern left-wing totalitarianism is a product of the void created by the lack of belief in God in early-twentieth-century intellectuals. It masks itself as kindness to protect its victims from harm, but in reality, it is a vicious ideology that seeks to suppress its dissenters.

#6

Soft totalitarianism exploits modern man’s preference for personal pleasure over political liberties. It is not imposed by the state, but rather welcomed by consumers as aids to lifestyle convenience.

#7

The therapeutic society, which has triumphed everywhere, is inherently unstable. It is based on the idea that nothing should exist outside of the market mechanism and its sorting of value according to human desires.

#8

Under soft totalitarianism, the media, academia, corporate America, and other institutions are practicing Newspeak and compelling the rest of us to engage in doublethink every day. Men have periods.

#9

Ketman is the practice of outwardly conforming to Islamic orthodoxy while inwardly dissenting. It is a form of mental self-defense. Under wokeness, conservatives learn to practice ketman.

#10

The task of the Christian dissident today is to personally commit herself to live not by lies. She must draw close to authentic spiritual leadership and form small cells of fellow believers with whom she can pray, sing, study Scripture, and read other books important to their mission.

#11

The Russia that produced communism was a world power under the rule of the Romanov dynasty, but as the empire neared the twentieth century, it was falling apart. The peasants were being treated like animals by their rulers, and many within the government and church wished for reform.

#12

The intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years would have been shocked if they had been told that in forty years, interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia.

#13

Marxism is a highly theoretical, abstract set of doctrines that cannot be easily grasped by nonspecialists. It took Russian intellectuals by storm because its evangelists presented it as a secular religion for the post-religious age.