A brief explanation of why THE SECRET is just stupid

I'm paralyzed from the eyeballs down. There's your explanation.

For those who don't know, The Secret is a self-help book that came out about ten years ago and has fooled a lot of people, including professing Christians. It claims to be the long-hidden wisdom of the ages but is really just another rehash of the Law of Attraction, an old idea that basically says if you think about stuff, you'll get stuff. Of course, if you think about bad things, they'll happen too, so it blames the victims as well.

Who was responsible for millions of dead Jews in the Holocaust? Obviously not the Nazis, but the millions of dead Jews. How about the African children who've had their hands or feet chopped off? Must have been the mutilated kids' fault.

And what about me? Did dwelling on an event I'd never considered leave me in a condition I'd never heard of? That's what The Secret would say.

The Law of Attraction is a vile, vicious, subhuman belief. And it's stupid too.