One Cosmos has some sharp words for Eckhart Tolle:

Eckhart Tolle? What a fount of wisdom! I just looked at one of his books on Amazon. In it, he compares the Roman Catholic church to Nazism, stating that the Inquisition “ranks together with the Holocaust as one of the darkest chapters in human history.”

Right. The Holocaust resulted in the systematic genocide of six million in a few years, while the entire Inquisition resulted in about 6,000 deaths in 500 years.

What a fool. (Don’t worry — he has no ego, so he cannot be offended by my criticism, no matter how sharp. Realize that my criticism of him is actually a reflection of my own unenlightened state.)

He then goes on to suggest that the Inquisition was motivated by an attack on the “sacred feminine,” and that while Islam does this as well, it is in a “less violent way” than in Christianity.

What an ass. I am reminded of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a book that started the whole “sacred feminine/gaia worship” business. As a result, DDT was banned, causing as many as 50 million deaths due to malaria. Would Tolle then say that radical environmentalism is “one of the darkest chapters in human history?” Doubtful. He wouldn’t want to alienate his target audience.