Tyranny and the Post-Christian West (Rod Dreher) | Ep. 532
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
4.8 โข 6.2K Ratings
๐๏ธ 9 July 2025
โฑ๏ธ 189 minutes
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Summary
Rod Dreher is a bestselling author and cultural critic known for his incisive commentary on faith, politics, and modern society. His landmark books The Benedict Option and Live Not By Lies have shaped conversations on Christian resilience in an age of decline, while his newest work, Living in Wonder, turns inward, exploring beauty, suffering, and the search for meaning. Dreherโs voice is unapologetically countercultural, drawing on Orthodox Christianity and a deep skepticism of modern ideological conformity.
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| 0:00.0 | Pines with Aquinas is brought to you by Truthly, which is a groundbreaking Catholic AI app built to help you know, live and defend the Catholic faith. |
| 0:09.3 | Start your seven-day free trial today when you download Truthly on the app store. |
| 0:14.7 | Things are more or less over for us Christians in terms of living in a Christianized society. |
| 0:20.7 | But if we are going to maintain our authentic Christian faith under these conditions, then we have to change. |
| 0:26.6 | This is really happening now. |
| 0:28.6 | Rod Dreher is a provocative conservative writer and cultural critic. |
| 0:31.6 | Known for his piercing commentary on the post-Christian West. |
| 0:34.6 | Author of landmark books like The Benedict Option. |
| 0:36.6 | Live Not by lies. |
| 0:38.7 | And living in wonder. |
| 0:39.7 | Dreher champions a countercultural Christianity that resists secularism with rootedness, |
| 0:44.5 | tradition, and moral clarity. |
| 0:46.5 | I think it's no accident, Matt, that the first generation that really dealt with transgenderism |
| 0:51.5 | was the first generation who were raised on the internet. |
| 0:54.3 | Some conservatives are like, well, Trump's in power, wokeness is over. Oh, no, it's not. |
| 0:58.9 | I was about to ask you that. What's the state of wokeness? The whole migration issue in Islam is so |
| 1:03.8 | massive in Europe in ways that Americans just don't hear about occultism. The clergy has to be |
| 1:09.6 | ready for that, and they're not. Everywhere I go now, you're hearing people start to buzz saying civil war is coming. |
| 1:14.6 | When you're facing something like totalitarianism, the most important quality is courage. |
| 1:20.6 | If enough people see what you're doing, then eventually the system will fall. |
| 1:29.3 | Thank you so much for watching Pines with Aquinas. |
| 1:31.3 | Before we get into the interview, I'd like to ask you to please consider subscribing |
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