Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

by Rod Dreher

church. It requires standing foursquare against much of popular Christianity, which has become a shallow self-help cult whose chief aim is not cultivating discipleship but rooting out personal anxieties.

The secular liberal ideal of freedom so popular in the West, and among many in his postcommunist generation, is a lie. That is, the concept that real freedom is found by liberating the self from all binding commitments (to God, to marriage, to family), and by increasing worldly comforts—that is a road that leads to hell.

Meeting these hidden heroes started a revolution against the greatest totalitarian ruler of all: myself.”