Live Freely, Resist Oppression: A Guide for Christian Activists

Bergenaar: Het is te hopen dat dit boek heel snel in het Nederelands vertaald zal worden (grote kans, is mijn inschatting), want dit zou iedereeen moeten lezen: met alle recente ontwikkelingen in onze cultuur en alles wat gezegd en beweerd wordt, geeft dit boek een stevig fundament voor wat we kunnen leren van degenen die iets hebben meegemaakt dat - misschien niet voor het oog, maar zeker wat betreft achterliggende principes - cruciaal is om te begrijpen!

Netherlands on Sep 19, 2023

Amazon Customer: Que el subtitulo no te engañe, sin duda hay un lugar y un tiempo para hacer lo que el autor propone, y este parece ser uno de esos momentos. Que Dios te dirección en el contexto en el que vives!!

Mexico on Jul 22, 2023

Jane Erye: An excellent read addressing where we are in the west.
Time to wake up from our materialistic, pleasure seeking slumber. The lion is not outside the gates, it is in the camp.

Canada on Jun 04, 2023

LenZen: The general idea for this book is a good one: compare present day American versus periods leading up to Bolshevist* takeovers to see if there are similarities. (*In this review I will use the term "Bolshevist" as opposed to the term "communist" which is often used colloquially as a synonym for it since I do not think that much of what happened in Russia and Eastern Europe had anything to do with communism as envisioned by Marx.) Despite the good idea for the book, the execution suffers from many flaws. There are definitely good insights in this book, but the problems mean that the book ends only being in the "okay" range.

First off the good:

Many of the stories the author recounts do, indeed, show similarities between the happenings leading up to Bolshevist takeovers and what is happening today in America. One area the author is particularly successful with is stories discussing the risk of ubiquitous data collection and surveillance, how Big Tech already has or could easily be subverted to exploiting this toward totalitarian ends and how the level of concern is just not where it should be. Stories which convey the sense of always worrying about what you say because...

United States on Oct 24, 2022

Nathan: Inspiring, emotional, and thought provoking book. A must read for any Christian out there concerned with the direction of our world going further and further away from Christ and His word. This will begin to prepare your heart and mind for the suffering and persecution many of us will soon face (or already are facing).

Canada on Oct 30, 2021

georgiana: The title "Live Not By Lies" comes from Solzhenitsyn, a man always worth listening to. I believe they are the last words he spoke to his fellow Russians before he was exiled. Nowadays, we live in a world full of lies; just being "Politically Correct" is lying, whether people always see it as such or not. To call black white and white black; to call evil good and good evil, is to live a lie; to say "Peace, Peace when there is no peace" is not only falsehood it is living in La La land. Ostrich territory.
This book reminds us of how important it is to live in truth. To wake up and smell the coffee.

Canada on Dec 04, 2020

Giovanni Fiordaliso: This book is listed as #1 best seller in “Fascism” on Amazon. Is this a mistake or a misconception? This book mostly focuses on communism, and should thus be under Communism not fascism.
Live by Lies is a book ironically with a positive message despite the dystopic warnings it lays down through past parallels and current warning signs. Rod Dreher's command of Russian Communist history is welcomed in a current world where no one talks about this subject enough. His title is based off an essay by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and justifiably so, Solzhenitsyn is an obvious inspiration for this book in many areas.
As someone who is only 22, I have been studying this time in history for three years. Not only because of how taboo it seems to be in academic circles, or how ignorant the people are on this, but my interest lies in how past communism can show us how to avoid a similar situation.
Dreher covers everything that is important in this contemporary struggle. He openly talks about the technocracy that has not only come into fruition, but has invited itself into our homes by our own will. Paraphrasing a great line "Orwell worried about a future where books were burned, that...

United States on Oct 01, 2020