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livstie's review against another edition
challenging
dark
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
5.0
It's difficult to write a book review for a book such as this. What do I mean? I mean that it's difficult to reduce a work about delivering you facts into something that is only as good as your opinion. However, I shall try.
I would put this book in the same camp as The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. But where Lewis' book was fiction based on spiritual principles, The Return of the Gods is an account of the results that evil has on this planet and its people.
It's chilling, it's concerning, it's disturbing. It explains the times we're living in though. We live in an age like no other and before I read this I threw up my hands like the rest of you saying, "what is going on? where is this craziness coming from?" Well, now I know.
I can't really get into the detail of this book in this review though, because Rabbi Cahn deftly weaved the text together in such a way as to connect multiple points while traveling back and forth through the ages. Each section builds on the next and as it progresses it starts to connect with multiple past points. So if I tried to give you a little teaser it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to you.
What I can tell you is if you've wondered what is going on, and not specifically "why are my groceries more expensive," but you've wondered why the world is going to pieces, why people are so miserable, and why the government is crumbling, you will find the answers in this book. It is no book to pull you into a false sense of security but a book to pull you into the truth. After all, it is only when you know the truth that you can actually begin to make a difference.
I would put this book in the same camp as The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. But where Lewis' book was fiction based on spiritual principles, The Return of the Gods is an account of the results that evil has on this planet and its people.
It's chilling, it's concerning, it's disturbing. It explains the times we're living in though. We live in an age like no other and before I read this I threw up my hands like the rest of you saying, "what is going on? where is this craziness coming from?" Well, now I know.
I can't really get into the detail of this book in this review though, because Rabbi Cahn deftly weaved the text together in such a way as to connect multiple points while traveling back and forth through the ages. Each section builds on the next and as it progresses it starts to connect with multiple past points. So if I tried to give you a little teaser it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to you.
What I can tell you is if you've wondered what is going on, and not specifically "why are my groceries more expensive," but you've wondered why the world is going to pieces, why people are so miserable, and why the government is crumbling, you will find the answers in this book. It is no book to pull you into a false sense of security but a book to pull you into the truth. After all, it is only when you know the truth that you can actually begin to make a difference.
Content Warnings
I would say that I do not think children should read this because of the nature of the content, it would be too heavy for a kid
hb122013's review
0.25
I read this book after my grandma asked me to. It’s like reading a hate and prejudice filled conspiracy fever dream.
lee_hillshire's review against another edition
Pretty torn on this one, tbh. It's got some really interesting ideas, but I'm not a fan of the way it's written, and I feel like it could have been more well researched? The reference notes at the end of the book seem a little sparce imho. But I also feel like I can't immediately dismiss the concepts presented out of hand, just because I tend not to think of spiritual stuff normally. I feel like I need to sit down with some people a lot smarter than me and just hash this all out and discuss the arguments and ideas within this book.
I guess ultimately the book itself gives an interesting idea, but it doesn't present anything very deeply and it needs more citations as well.
I guess ultimately the book itself gives an interesting idea, but it doesn't present anything very deeply and it needs more citations as well.
prairie_fairie's review against another edition
informative
3.0
What if all the madness in the world today could be summed up in a book? That every crazy out there thing happening in the world today that defies logic (where people ignore logic) can be summed up in a book? What if the driving force behind feminism leading to the woke world, that leads to male and female genital mutilation could hark back not only to feminism, but to gods of the old world returning, be summed up in a book?
If you attempt to deliver a demon from a person who is unsaved, you risk making the situation worse. This is a scriptural truth. If you deliver a nation of pagan gods and then cast the Creator aside in favor of the new age (devoid of its fundamental beliefs and spirituality), you leave the door wide open for the Return of the Gods.
While some of what Cahn wrote I can get on board with, some of what he wrote feels like a stretch, but it is not to say it is. It is merely that I would need to spend a larger amount of time pouring over the ancient texts to compare the notes to confirm whether I come to the same conclusions. Without that knowledge, all I can say is this: if he is right then the patterns of evidence are there and very obvious if you know what to look for. If he is wrong, then it's finding the number 23 everywhere you look.
I can only ever endorse the Bible in its entirety, but I will say that with what I do know, some of what Cahn has written is correct. I'm not saying he's wrong...I'm saying I would need more information to conclude conclusively.
Worth a read.
If you attempt to deliver a demon from a person who is unsaved, you risk making the situation worse. This is a scriptural truth. If you deliver a nation of pagan gods and then cast the Creator aside in favor of the new age (devoid of its fundamental beliefs and spirituality), you leave the door wide open for the Return of the Gods.
While some of what Cahn wrote I can get on board with, some of what he wrote feels like a stretch, but it is not to say it is. It is merely that I would need to spend a larger amount of time pouring over the ancient texts to compare the notes to confirm whether I come to the same conclusions. Without that knowledge, all I can say is this: if he is right then the patterns of evidence are there and very obvious if you know what to look for. If he is wrong, then it's finding the number 23 everywhere you look.
I can only ever endorse the Bible in its entirety, but I will say that with what I do know, some of what Cahn has written is correct. I'm not saying he's wrong...I'm saying I would need more information to conclude conclusively.
Worth a read.
smsands2's review against another edition
4.0
As other reviewers have noted, the writing style is quite repetitive. The author very clearly wants to make incredibly clear his line of thinking- and he succeeds.
There were some parts of this book I liked, and some that had me scratching my head and wondering at his like of thought.
However, it was entertaining and interesting to read. It was thought provoking in some portions. That’s why it gets a 4.
There were some parts of this book I liked, and some that had me scratching my head and wondering at his like of thought.
However, it was entertaining and interesting to read. It was thought provoking in some portions. That’s why it gets a 4.
sheilajoyful's review against another edition
1.0
I reserve my one-stars for books that make me sorry they are taking up room on the bookshelves of the cosmos.
A friend recommended this book to me, saying she's recommending it to everyone. I will have to ask her what she found in it.
What I found was essentially junk (which does not mean Essential Junk); I'm mostly bewildered that a real live person would spend so much time writing a book that says so little, and is so sure of itself in the saying. I looked at the author photo for a while, trying to understand this mystery.
(Spoiler alert! Because the photo is at the end of the book!)
I deduced that he has a fairly presentable beard. I don't know what this has to do with the book, but then, I am not sure what most of the book has to do with anything at all.
For one of my current reading challenges, I am reading books that are outside my comfort zone. This was so far outside my comfort zone that I read it leaning way out, almost toppling over, skimming some pages, just to get it over with. (You can blame the deficiencies of this review on that fact.)
Here's the only reason I am glad I read this book: Now I can check that reading-challenge box honestly. In this case, skimming counts.
A friend recommended this book to me, saying she's recommending it to everyone. I will have to ask her what she found in it.
What I found was essentially junk (which does not mean Essential Junk); I'm mostly bewildered that a real live person would spend so much time writing a book that says so little, and is so sure of itself in the saying. I looked at the author photo for a while, trying to understand this mystery.
(Spoiler alert! Because the photo is at the end of the book!)
I deduced that he has a fairly presentable beard. I don't know what this has to do with the book, but then, I am not sure what most of the book has to do with anything at all.
For one of my current reading challenges, I am reading books that are outside my comfort zone. This was so far outside my comfort zone that I read it leaning way out, almost toppling over, skimming some pages, just to get it over with. (You can blame the deficiencies of this review on that fact.)
Here's the only reason I am glad I read this book: Now I can check that reading-challenge box honestly. In this case, skimming counts.
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