by Michael Gryboski, Christian Post
Bestselling conservative author and editor Rod Dreher released a book in 2020 titled Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, which argued that a rising “soft totalitarianism” is threatening the United States and Europe.
Five years later, a four-episode documentary miniseries of the same name based on Dreher’s book has been released via Angel Studios.
As with Dreher’s work, the series gets the perspectives of people who lived under totalitarian regimes, namely former countries of the former Soviet Union, while drawing parallels to forces within 21st-century American society.
“How did people fall under the spell of leaders like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao?” asked the narrator in the first episode of “Live Not By Lies.”
“And how does the public participate in and support such horrific acts? The short answer is the telling and believing of lies. And the solution to this mass delusion is preaching the opposite.”
In addition to interviewing dissidents from the former Soviet Union, the series also interviews various scholars, activists and writers, including Dreher himself.
The Christian Post spoke with Dreher about “Live Not By Lies” and related topics. Below are excerpts from that interview.