#93 Totalitarianism: How Christians Can Resist the New Cultural Religion, with Rod Dreher

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Rod Dreher shares about his experiences interviewing Christians all over Eastern Europe who survived communist and Marxist regimes. What do they see happening in America? What can we learn from their faithfulness to Christ during persecution?

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0:00.0	We should fight for justice certainly,
0:01.6	but there's no way to create a utopia
0:04.5	this side of the second coming.
0:06.1	Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast.
0:26.0	My guest today is Rod Draer,
0:28.2	a senior editor at the American Conservative.
0:30.9	He's also written and edited for the New York Post,
0:35.0	the Dallas Morning News National Review.
0:37.5	He's been on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, all the things.
0:42.0	He's just recently written a book called Live Not By Lies,
0:45.8	A Manual for Christian Decidents.
0:48.3	I just finished reading this book yesterday,
0:50.8	and I have to join my voice with a great many others who are saying
0:54.8	that this might be the most important book you read this year if you're a Christian.
0:59.1	So I'm very excited to get into this discussion today about this book.
1:03.6	So Rod, I want to bring you in here and welcome you to the program,
1:07.0	but also ask you, why did you write this book?
1:09.2	What was the inspiration that caused you to pull the trigger and write it?
1:14.6	Well, I got a call back in 2015 from a physician at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
1:20.6	We had a mutual friend and he said,
1:23.1	I need to tell somebody this, so journalist this and you're the one.
1:27.1	Turns out that his mother,
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