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\u201cDespite its superficial permissiveness, liberal democracy is degenerating into something resembling the totalitarianism over which it triumphed in the Cold War,\u201d writes author Rod Dreher in Live Not by Lies<\/em><\/span>, a 2020 work about what former Eastern European dissidents can teach us about resisting oppressive regimes. (xiv) Under this new totalitarianism, \u201cElites and elite institutions are abandoning old-fashioned liberalism based in defending the rights of the individual and replacing it with a progressive creed that regards justice in terms of groups. It encourages people to identify with groups\u2014ethnic, sexual, and otherwise\u2014and to think of good and evil as a matter of power dynamics among the groups. A utopian vision drives these progressives, one that compels them to rewrite history and reinvent language to reflect their ideals of social justice.\u201d (xi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like under communism, the new totalitarianism taking hold in America and the West is aggressively trying to suppress Christianity and Christians. Why? Because Christianity defends the inherent dignity of the individual, who was created in the image and likeness of God. It demands a loyalty stronger than that given to any secular ideology, and dares to contradict the claims of one of the dominant drivers of the ruling ideology\u2014the sexual revolution\u2014regarding permissive sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, and abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, the new totalitarianism, again like its communist predecessor, is fiercely attacking the traditional Christian family. As Mary Ebserstadt writes in her book How the West Really Lost God<\/em><\/span>, the fates of the traditional family and Christianity are intertwined; weaken the family, and you weaken Christianity, as the family is the primary transmission belt of Christianity. Indeed, the decline of Christianity in the West over the past few centuries can be directly linked to the decline of the traditional family over that same period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what can East European dissidents teach us about creating strong families to oppose the new oppression? \u201cThere is a strong model of anti-totalitarian resistance based in the Christian family: the Benda clan of Prague,\u201d writes Dreher.\u00a0 \u201cThe Bendas are a large Catholic family who suffered greatly in 1979 when the Czechoslovak state sentenced their patriarch, Vaclav, to four years in prison for his activities fighting for human rights.\u201d (129) In addition to his imprisonment, Benda was regularly harassed, put under surveillance, and interrogated by the secret police. Along with the better known dissident Vaclav Havel (who would later become president of post-communist Czechoslovakia), Benda was a top leader of the Czech dissident movement and one of the few believing Christians in a leadership role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benda was a strong supporter of the traditional Christian family as he \u201cbelieved that the family is the bedrock of civilization, and must be nurtured and protected at all costs,\u201d writes Dreher. (130) In his essay \u201cThe Family and the Totalitarian State<\/em>\u201d written in the winter of 1987-88, Benda wrote that \u201cthe family was always a thorn in the eye for Communist totalitarianism.\u201d Indeed, along with the Church, \u201cthe family showed remarkable resistance with regard to totalitarianism\u201d and remained \u201can unresolved problem for it today.\u201d As a result, the communist state did all it could to weaken the traditional family. Two of the key ways it did this was by having liberal divorce and abortion laws; indeed, Eastern European countries under communism had (and some still have today) some of the highest divorce and abortion rates in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Benda wrote that the traditional Christian family had to remain strong as it was \u201ca visible embodiment of the three most fundamental gifts or dignities that a person could receive.\u201d\u00a0 First, the family gives us the \u201cfruitful fellowship of love, in which we are bound together with our neighbor without pardon by virtue simply of our closeness; not on the basis or merit, rights and entitlements\u2026.\u201d Second, the family gives us the gift of true freedom, where \u201cwe are able to make permanent, eternal decisions; every marriage promise that is kept, every fidelity in defiance of adversity, is a radical defiance of our finitude, something that elevates us\u2014and with us all created corporeally\u2014higher than angels.\u201d\u00a0 Third, the family supports \u201cdignity and [the] unique role of the individual. In practically all other social roles, we are replaceable and can be relieved of them, whether rightly or wrongly. However, such a cold calculation of justice does not reign between husband and wife, between children and parents, but rather the law of love.\u201d\u00a0 Because of these three benefits, \u201cI consider marriage and family to be so essential that I am unwilling to accept the regular cliches about liberation from these obligations.\u201d\u00a0Indeed, marriage would mean nothing if it is \u201can experiment from which one can retreat during the first serious collision, if one is allowed to follow one\u2019s own discretion in eradicating unborn children and rejecting children already born\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, Benda states that the family cannot be strong unless Christ is at the center of it: \u201cThe family cannot survive 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 \u2018beyond,\u2019 whether we call it love, truth or something else, seems essential.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how did Benda and his wife Kamila create a strong family that served as a bulwark against communist totalitarianism?\u00a0First of all, by taking marriage seriously and supporting a culture of life; the Benda marriage ended only upon Vaclav\u2019s death in 1999 and their 6 kids showed their support for life. But what else did the Bendas do to create a strong family that was able to resist totalitarianism?\u00a0After meeting with the Benda family in 2018, Dreher learned that Vaclav and Kamila did six key things.\u00a0First, the Bendas modeled \u201cmoral courage.\u201d \u201c\u2019Our parents were heroes for us,\u2019 says Patrik. \u2018My father was the sheriff from the High Noon<\/em> movie.’\u201d \u00a0Another son Marek added: \u201c\u2019Watching High Noon<\/em> really formed our way of fighting evil\u2026 Everyone is asking the sheriff to leave so the that the town will have no problems from the bad guys. But the sheriff comes back nevertheless, because his virtue and honor can\u2019t allow him to leave. He is looking for assistance, but no one wants to do that. But his wife helps him in the end. In some way, this was our family\u2019s story. This is what our father and mother did.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, the Bendas filled their children\u2019s \u201cmoral imagination with the good.\u201d\u00a0Every day for several hours, Kamila would read to her children books that built up their moral muscles. Dreher writes: \u201cPatrik [a son] says the key is to expose children to stories that help them know the difference between truth and falsehood, and teach them how to discern this in real life.\u201d (138)\u00a0One of the children\u2019s favorite books was J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/span> trilogy.\u00a0\u201c\u2019Mom read The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/em> to us maybe six times,\u2019 recalls Philip [a son]. \u2018It\u2019s about the East versus the West. The elves on one side and the goblins on the other. And when you know the book, you see that you first need to fight the evil empire…’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, the Bendas were \u201cnot afraid to be weird in society\u2019s eyes.\u201d Dreher writes: \u201cThey brought them up to understand that they, as Christians, were not to go along to get along in their totalitarian society. Vaclav and Kamila knew that if they did not strongly impart that sense of difference to their children, they risked losing them to propaganda and to widespread conformity to the totalitarian system.\u201d (139)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fourth, Vaclav and Kamila were prepared \u201cto make great sacrifices for the greater good.\u201d\u00a0While Vaclav was in prison for his dissident activities, the authorities offered to release him if he and his family would emigrate to the West.\u00a0Upon learning of the offer in a letter from Vaclav, Kamila was adamant that they reject the it. \u201c\u2019I wrote back to tell him no, that he would be better off staying in prison to fight for what we believe is true,\u2019 she tells me.’\u201d (140) Dreher states: \u201cThink of it: This woman was raising six children alone, in a communist totalitarian state. But she affirmed by her own willingness to sacrifice\u2014and to sacrifice a materially more comfortable and politically free life for her children\u2014for the greater good.\u201d (140)\u00a0And the Benda children understood this lesson. \u201c\u2019Dad believed that even though things were bad, and he was suffering, and that he didn\u2019t see positive consequences from his actions, that there is a good God who will eventually win the battle,\u2019 adds Marketa, one of the Benda daughters. \u2018God will eventually win, even though I may not see it in my life. So my suffering is not meaningless, because I am part of a greater battle that will be victorious in the end. That is what our father showed us by his life.\u2019\u201d (141)\u00a0Daughter Marketa added her father\u2019s faith gave him the courage to make the sacrifices he did: \u2018\u201dHe believed that he was accountable before God, not before people. It didn\u2019t matter to him when other people didn\u2019t understand why he did the things he did. He acted in the sight of God. As you know, the Bible gave him strength, because it is full of stories of the prophets and others going beyond the border of what was comprehensible or understandable to people, for the sake of obeying the Lord.\u2019\u201d (141)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifth, the Bendas taught their children that \u201cthey are part of a wider movement.\u201d\u00a0Dreher writes: \u201cThough Vaclav and Kamila held their Catholic beliefs uncompromisingly within the family, they showed their children by example the importance of working with good and decent people outside the moral and theological community of the church.\u201d (142) As son Patrik says: \u201c\u2019In Charter 77 [Czech dissident organization], you had people of totally different worldviews and ideas joined together\u2026 You had, for example, democratic socialists on the one side and fervent Catholics on the other side. It was totally normal for me that as a small child, I was being raised in a community of people with very different opinions. So it shattered the bubble around me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the Bendas would \u201cpractice hospitality and serve others.\u201d The Bendas sponsored underground seminars in their home to keep alive Czech culture and would support people on their way to be interrogated by the police.\u00a0(The Benda apartment was near the headquarters of the secret police.) \u201cUp to twenty people would show up every day at the Benda flat, seeking advice, comfort, and community. And after police released the suspects, they would return to the Benda home. Whether or not they had come through without breaking, or had given up information under duress, Kamila offered them a cup of tea and a glass of wine and encouragement,\u201d Dreher relates. (143-44) The Bendas did this as a way to combat the atomization of society that the totalitarian state was trying to create in order to make people more dependent on the state rather than each other.\u00a0Dreher writes: \u201c[I]t was important for ordinary people to come together and to be reminded or one another\u2019s existence. In a time when people have forgotten how to be neighbors, simply sharing a meal or a movie together is a political act. This, I say, is a way to fight back against the loneliness and isolation that allows the totalitarian state to rule.\u201d (145)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his book Live Not by Lies<\/em><\/span>, author Rod Dreher shows us how Czech dissidents Vaclav and Kamila Benda are a model of how the traditional family, and the Christian faith underlying it, can be strongholds against the onslaught of a totalitarian state committed to destroying them. In addition to remaining true to one\u2019s marriage vows and supporting a culture of life, if today\u2019s families in America and the West can 1) model courage; 2) fill the moral imagination of children with the good; 3) not be afraid to be weird in society\u2019s eyes; 4) make sacrifices for the greater good; 5) teach children that they are part of a wider movement; and 6) practice hospitality and serving others, they can serve as resistance cells against the totalitarian forces of political correctness, identity politics, and the sexual revolution.\u00a0As Dreher writes: \u201cFor the Benda family of Prague, their purpose is first to serve God and then to serve others. They did it under communism and they are doing it under post-Christian liberalism. It\u2019s a family tradition.\u201d (145) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s hope we can do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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