This book was the first one I have ever received that I could not read. From the beginning, the author casually invoked Nazi Germany, the worst example of human beings in the last century, as the bar he could make you climb over. That is the lowest bar possible. If you are not better than that, you have no reason to be reading anyway. And even if it somehow was acceptable, neither Nazi's nor any others who commit atrocities can serve as an example of insecurity, depression, or confusion, which are the very things he supposedly structured his book around.
Of those three problems (insecurity, depression, and confusion), one of them is a medical condition. I don't imagine any doctors prescribing reading books about Nazi's in any capacity to treat depression. Nor should they. Confusion is so entirely vague that there's no way to address it at large. And insecuriy? Are "hope, strength, peace, joy, and love" the cures to that? Again, not the case. Insecurity is a battle within oneself, not a cosmic struggle. He says he wants to show us how much God "wants to strengthen our minds to enable us to rise above the noise..." but to make that statement is to belittle the reader, to count their very real problems as just "noise." It's disrespectful.
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