Godless: The Church of Liberalism | 
 enlarge | Author: Ann Coulter
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.
Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely on the Left's attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: liberalism is a religion—a godless one.
And it is now entrenched as the state religion of this county.
Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In Godless, Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ (Roe v. Wade), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the "absolute moral authority" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident).
Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: it is bogus science.
Writing with a keen appreciation for genuine science, Coulter reveals that the so-called gaps in the theory of evolution are all there is—Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution's proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the "evolving" peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom?
Liberals' absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution's scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force. They will brook no challenges to the official religion.
Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter's razor-sharp wit, Godless is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today's most lively and impassioned conservative voices.
"Liberals love to boast that they are not 'religious,' which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'" —From Godless
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Liberal libel August 10, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Global warming started with the sun...not al gore.
Internet started with the advent of the computer...not al gore.
Al - the world - according to real scientists - is cooling.
Al the internet was created before you could spell A.L..
So the inconvenient truth is....
You, and your kind, are liars:
L.iberals
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A.L-iberal
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Society.
She just won a "convert" July 19, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
After reading this book by Ann Coulter, I am now a fan. She has enlightened me about serious issues in a very articulate, organized fashion that is easy to read, understand, and with a wit a humor that left me laughing my head off almost after every paragraph. She is right!! Liberalism is a religion and has all the components that identify it as a religion. Stunning.
Yes, I am a fan, now, Ann. Your chapter on evolution was fabulous!! I have memories of a child sitting in my classroom having the teacher display pictures of these moths on trees that changed color because of pollution. Then the next lesson was on since the moths changed color, blah, blah, blah; man evolved from apes. I remember thinking to myself; well, yes, the moths changed colors, but they ARE STILL MOTHS. Does that make me an ape? What does moths changing colors have to do with humans evolving from apes? And why are there still apes if we evolved from an ape? I'm really angy to find out that the picture of the moths was a scientific fraud in the first place. I feel like, no, I know, I am living in a world that is filled with deceipt and lies.
So weird to think back on that memory. It is as clear as day sitting in my classroom as a third or fourth grader trying to figure this all out. And, no, I wasn't raised in a christian home. I come from a very liberal, secular, democratic family.
Deadpan? Who wants to read:marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression (anyways). That's boring. We have enough of that from the deadpan media. She just won a "convert" with this book. I was never really impressed with her short interviews on TV, but, WOW, this book is great and should be read by every average American, especially the Democrats. Going to pass one out to each and every one of my family members. 5 Koodos!!
Excellent read July 5, 2008
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
I found Ann Coulters book excellent. She captures the true hidden agenda of Liberal America and the destuctive power it has to our nation as a whole. Through vivid facts, she shows the slow internal demize, of a nation, founded in a belief in God, by our own elected officials, who's hidden agenda is to remove God from everything in our society. She shows the utter chaos that this would bring to the United States.
I highly recommend this book.
It's ok to believe in God and have independent thoughts April 16, 2008
3 out of 17 found this review helpful
I know that if you are a liberal, you will hate this book. The book lays out in a very organized manner that being a conservative and believing in God is ok - even good for the country. Most people in the US are not liberal and it is time for those people to read that they need to stand up for themselves and don't let the poorly mannered liberals take charge. Being and American does not mean you can be rude, selfish, push people around, and think your beliefs are more important than others.
 Love you, Ann, but you missed the mark with this one April 9, 2008
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ann Coulter is such a lightning rod personality, regardless of my opinion of `Godless,' about half the review readers will agree that the review is "Helpful" and the other half will pull the lever for "Not Helpful." Unfortunately, the feedback from other book buyers will not necessarily be representative of whether my review was helpful. Rather, those who like Coulter may likely have one view of my opinion and those who dislike her will have the opposite opinion.
So it goes.
I want to start by saying for the record that I like Ann Coulter. I think she is extremely intelligent. She is fearless. She has a strong but affable personality. She is attractive. Much more often than not, I find myself on the same side of the issue as she is. In fact, I thought "How To Talk To A Liberal (If You Must)" was inspired. It was poignant. It was funny. That being said, I was more than a little disappointed by `Godless.'
The first few chapters of `Godless' begins with the same sharp wit and rational analysis as `How To Talk To A Liberal.' With examples of double-talk, duplicity, and stupidity, Coulter argues that Democrats in the United States have adopted Liberalism as a religion complete with its own doctrine, martyrs, sacraments, and clergy. Coulter's metaphors are hilarious and dead ba11s-on.
For example, Coulter compares the 1988 campaign issue of Michael Dukakis' furlough program, specifically Willie Horton as the martyr in the Church of Liberalism. "But, when the inevitable happened and Dukakis did lose the election, Democrats went to work creating a myth that the Bush campaign had won the election with a racist ad campaign about a black criminal named Willie Horton. Liberals have an unparalleled capacity to create a myth when the truth will destroy them. The Willie Horton ad provoked hysteria from the Democrats because Horton's release exposed their obsessive fetish with releasing violent criminals. In fact, Horton is the full explanation for why someone like Michael Dukakis should never be allowed near any government job..."
Relating to the Liberals' "Doctrine of Infallibility," according to Coulter, is the exploitation of women, specifically sobbing women. "After 9/11, four housewives from New Jersey whose husbands died in the attack on the World Trade Center became heroes for blaming their husbands' deaths on George Bush and demanding a commission to investigate why Bush didn't stop the attaches. The Jersey Girls weren't interested in national honor, they were interested in a lawsuit. The first came together to complain that the $1.6 million average settlement to be paid to 9/11 victims' families by the government was not large enough.." "After getting their payments jacked up, the weeping widows took to the airwaves to denounce George Bush, apparently for not beaming himself through space from Florida to New York and throwing himself in front of the second building at the World Trade Center." "The whole nation was wounded, all of our lives reduced. But they (The Jersey Girls) believed the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony."
Then, as if a switch had been flipped, Coulter uses the well-formed foundation for her opinion, not unlike a member of a high school debate team that drew the short side of the argument, takes the side of creationism, or "intelligent design," as opposed to the Theory of Evolution, to explain the how-we-got-here question. In other words, because Democrats have adopted Liberalism as their religion, does it necessarily follow that evolution is not how single-cellular organisms progressed and culminated in the human being? Well, that's Coulter's opinion, or at least that is the opinion she espouses in the second half of `Godless.'
Like an attorney building her case, Coulter makes a series of points to support her argument. For example, evolution is actually just a theory; it is not provable. Specifically referring to mutation, which is a basic premise of the theory of evolution, Coulter asserts, "the first mutations toward a nose would just make you look funny and no one would want to reproduce with you." Coulter refers to the idea of "survival of the fittest" as a tautology, or a circular and unprovable argument. "Through a process of natural selection, the `fittest' survive. Who are the `fittest?' The ones who survive! Why look - it happens every time!" Coulter continues down this path, inserting a humorous metaphor, a Walkman "evolved" into an iPod, and highlighting frauds perpetrated by unscrupulous scientists upon whose "discoveries" the Theory of Evolution was built. (While unscrupulous scientists have always existed and have always cooked the books for their own personal and professional advancement, their discoveries have been universally discredited and are irrelevant in context.)
What Coulter does prove is that a lawyer can actually argue either side of the point. Her position that Intelligent Design is more credible than the Theory of Evolution is not unlike Johnny Cochran defending O.J. Simpson. Just like Johnny Cochran was effective in convincing a twelve people who Herrnstein and Murray (authors of `The Bell Curve') might consider to have below average intelligence that O.J. Simpson did not kill his Nicole, Coulter might convince a few folks whose Intelligence Quotient resides two standard deviations to the left of the mean to believe that the Earth is 5,000 years old.
Love you, Ann, but you missed the mark with this one.
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