oh man

how i WISH that i could copy the article i just read and paste into this here blog for you all to read. alas, that would be plagiarism. so instead i will just tell you about it, briefly, and hope you will seek it out yourself.

today i received an article, courtesy of Christianity Today's free email newsletter. (i have to admit that for every great article, there are 30 that are ridiculous...but today was a good one...ok, continue...) the article was concerning the best-selling book The Secret. i had not heard of this book yet, but MAN it sounds sadly ridiculous. ridiculous because it is the ultimate in self-help, self-centered, American ego-centric nonsense. and sad because this is the 20th week that it has been at the top of New York Time's best-sellers list...so people are clearly buying into this crap.

now that i think about it...anything more i write will be a sad summary of the article itself, which is brilliant. if you are interested, go to the Christianity Today web site. it is in the June 2007 newsletter, and the title is: The Secret Exposed.

i will leave you with one teaser quote:
The Secret, you see, is all about the self—it's for the self, obsessed with the self. Newsweek offers this critique: "On an ethical level, The Secret appears deplorable. It concerns itself almost entirely with a narrow range of middle-class concerns—houses, cars, and vacations, followed by health and relationships, with the rest of humanity a very distant sixth."