"Leave us alone!"

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Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle and talk-show host superstar Oprah Winfrey are not backing down from their evolution position in their weekly web cast A New Earth. Despite being portrayed as Satan by some evangelical church groups, Oprah continues to support Eckhart’s position that evolution and Christianity are not in conflict. They both appealed for religious tolerance. As one Oprah.com message board respondent said, "I don't picket churches on Sunday, so please, leave us alone!”

Eckhart Tolle squares off with Creationists

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Spiritual teacher & New York times best-selling author Eckhart Tolle has found himself directly in the middle of an evangelical defamation campaign. While teaching his book A New Earth with Oprah Winfrey, highly organized evangelical creationists have bombarded Oprah’s message boards with hundreds of thousands of derogatory comments and apocalyptic warnings about Eckhart’s simultaneous embrace of evolution and the teachings of Jesus.

Oprah Winfrey and the creationism controversy

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Much to the surprise of webinar participants, Oprah Winfrey and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle were directly confronted during their New Earth webcast with a question about the use of the word 'evolution' in his teachings. Eckhart responded that most Christians world-wide don't have a problem with evolution. Oprah added that it's obvious everyone is evolving every day. To learn more, visit OprahEckhart.com.

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