I've always had a certain bizarre fascination with things that annoy me, and now, it has happened:  Someone has finally succeeded in bringing together everything that makes me crazy into one amazing conglomeration--including (but not limited to) certain New Age ideas (we're our own god, there's an impersonal base behind the universe, we should blame victims for their situation); Marxist theories; conspiracy theories; infomercials; historical revisionism; pseudoscience; narcissism; hoaxes perpetrated against lost, hopeless people; putting feelings in charge; and even the use of quantum physics to support dubious philosophical claims.  (It would achieve total perfection if only it were set to the music of the Electrical Light Parade and hosted by the dancing Six Flags guy.) 

Ahhh.  It's so beautiful in its (near) perfection of all things annoying, I can only stand in awe of...The Secret.

[Warning:  You probably should not watch that whole video in one sitting.  You will not know whether to laugh or cry at any given moment, and various points may cause strokes and/or exploding heads among viewers.  Too much of it at one time is likely to bring on all of these things at once.]

But seriously, I don't mean to make light of this.  Real people--including some of my friends--are into this, and it's frustrating because God is so much better than the impersonal "universe" the video is offering, but people settle for this cheap imitation!  The Secret offers health, wealth, love, and power?  Big deal!  God is the one for whose sake people endure painful physical persecution, lose all their possessions, suffer rejection from their family and friends, and become the servant of all.  Which, then, is greater?

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. 

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it (Matthew 13:44-46).

I hope you'll go out there today and tell people this good news.