Oh, this is really not for me. This is one of my "list" books - basically, to broaden my reading I pick random lists on Goodreads and try to read my way through them. This tends to bring up books that I would never read normally, and sometimes that's turned out well and sometimes it hasn't. Look, I'm not religious. In the past, I've certainly come away with valuable things from Christian theologians such as C.S. Lewis or Lloyd Geering, but that's not the case with this book.

In his defence, McVey is doing something interesting here. It's basically a series of visualisations, imagining religiously positive qualities in the form of armour - imagine truth as a waist belt, for instance, and visualise putting it on to develop a greater reliance on truth in general. Which is actually quite an imaginative idea! It's not a visualisation that would work for me, but I can see how other people might find it helpful. It's just I can't get over the literalness of the argument. I mean: "This weapon [the helmet of salvation] sends demons to flight every time. It takes away their legal right to a person." I'm sorry, what?! Even if I believed in demons, which I don't, you'd have to go a long way, with a lot more supporting material, to make me believe demons had a legal right to anything. There's quite a lot like this. I just can't take it seriously.

Oh well, perhaps the next random religious book I come across in a Goodreads list will be more to my taste.