Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

by Rod Dreher

it is not by winning an argument but

by keeping yourself grounded in reality that you carry on the human heritage.

The family cannot survive as a community if the head and center is one of its own members. The Christian statement is simple; it has to be Christ who is the true center, and in His service the individual members of this community share in the work of their salvation. One hopes that the well-grounded family can exist even without this distinctively religious affiliation; however, the focus of service to something “beyond,” whether we call it love, truth or anything else, seems essential.

They were drawn to people who looked like they were living in the light of truth.

In this experience of faith and this encounter with Christ, you receive a new feeling, and you know that you would not go back to how you used to be for anything. You are willing to endure anything they throw at you.”

They think they love, but they merely desire. They think they follow Jesus, but in fact, they merely admire him.

Each of us thinks we wouldn’t be like that. But if we have accepted the great lie of our therapeutic culture, which tells us that personal happiness is the greatest good of all, then we will surrender at the first sign of trouble.

“You need to confess him and worship him in such a way that people can see that this world is a lie,”

“I’ve been thinking a lot about fear, as such,” she says. “What is fear? Someone who is afraid is going to be made to do the most evil things. If someone is not afraid to say no, if your soul is free, there is nothing they can do to you.”