Synopsis of Live Not By Lies By Rod Dreher: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

Note to Readers:This is an unofficial synopsis of Rod Dreher's book " Live Not By Lies" designed to enrich your reading experience.In the spring of 2015, Rod Dreher, noted conservative public figure and author of Live Not by Lies (A Manual for Christian Dissidents) received an alarming phone call from a stranger. An American doctor whose mother, a 90-year-old Czechoslovakian immigrant who spent 6 years in prison in her homeland as an anti-communist Catholic dissident, talked to her son about how recent events unfolding reminded her of the beginnings of communism in Czechoslovakia. The specific incident that prompted this was the social media storm that surrounded a pizzeria in Indiana. Its Christian owners had refused to cater to a same-sex wedding, and they received so many threats as a result they were forced to temporarily close shop. Something about the doctor's tone rattled Dreher. The man who spoke to him with urgency was raised by immigrant parents who fought and fled communism in their youth. And while that upbringing came with constant warnings to be vigilant about the spread of totalitarianism in society, the doctor never took it seriously. He didn't worry it could happen in the USA. But the pizzeria incident rocked him from this secure perch.