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1) Paperback Book Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Three Rivers Press. If you´re a conservative looking for a book to reinforce your predefined views of liberalism, this book is for you. If you´re looking for a little more substance, though, move along.¤ 2) Paperback Book Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Three Rivers Press. One knows whether they´ve shuffled off various viral educational-system induced liberal values and beliefs when one can read this book and just enjoy it. It´s rarely more sarcastic and critical than an episode of Saturday Night Live, so I´m not sure what most people are complaining about here. Even Coulter´s weaknesses (she doesn´t hold a scientific degree or have such training...and Michael Behe, David Berlinski, and William Dembski obviously didn´t help her as much as she might believe) are completely forgivable.¤ 3) Paperback Book Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Three Rivers Press. This book is a little bit hard to read at first because she´s so sarcastic all the time, but once you get used to her style, it´s really good and you can´t blame her! She´s incredibly intelligent and some of the stories she unearths make you wonder if the world will ever be right again! IT WILL BE WHEN PEOPLE KNOW THE TRUTH! This book helps a seeker find more truth - a must read!¤ 4) Paperback Book Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Three Rivers Press. Ann Coulter, Godless: The Church of Liberalism (Crown, 2006)
I would like to be able to review Ann Coulter´s newest tome, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, fairly. However, I find myself unable to do so because Coulter´s entire premise is a ludicrous, but increasingly common, fallacy: the equation of conservatism with orthodox religion (specifically, in this case, Christianity, though I´ve often heard Joe Lieberman, an orthodox Jew, described as conservative as well). I´m not sure how this odd distortion of reality came about, but let me set the record straight here: anyone whose opinions on any given topic come from a solely religious viewpoint is not a conservative. They are, without doubt, a wholly different stripe of liberal than, say, the Warren Court that Coulter so despises, but trust me-- conservatives don´t want them either. Where do you think the term "neocon" came from? That´s right-- us. The conservatives.
To use an example that´s obviously near and dear to Ann´s heart, given how much she brings it up, let´s talk abortion. Ann´s premise is that liberals (because, obviously, all liberals feel the same on every subject; liberals are a monolith like one might find in a Kubrick film) support a government-guaranteed right to abortion on demand, while conservatives of Coulter´s stripe (see above about monolithism) support a government mandate that abortion be illegal. Any true conservative knows that neither of those options is the correct answer (despite how we may feel personally; I am virulently pro-choice, myself)-- the only conservative option is "abortion falls under the ninth and tenth amendments." In other words, let the states decide. It´s all right there in black and white, for anyone who cares to read the constitution.
Not that "constitutional law expert" Ann Coulter isn´t above bending the laws a little. While she talks up the first amendment on a number of occasions here, it´s pretty obvious that she´d like to see the first amendment (and a couple of others, notably the fifth, which she attacks over and over again while spewing invective against Miranda) go the way of the great auk. A pretty funny position for a "conservative", someone for whom the Constitution holds the same mystic power as the Bible does for the "liberals in wolves´ clothing", as I´ve taken to calling the neocons in the past few years.
While I´d actually planned to make Coulter´s unsurprising lack of actual conservative views the real substantive body of my non-review, as I was actually reading the book, I found my qualms about the sand upon which her arguments were founded taking a back seat to the woman´s writing style (which, and this is surprising, Joe Maguire goes out of his way to praise numerous times in Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter). Simply put, Coulter is one of the shrieking harridans she´s constantly attacking. Her writing style is based on unfunny, borderline-offensive "jokes" and ad hominem attacks rather than anything at all of substance. This isn´t political writing, it´s ranting, much of it unsubstantiated. That´s all well and good when it´s billed as ranting. I rant quite often myself, though I do at least attempt to back it up with facts sometimes, and I always clearly label ranting as ranting, and don´t expect people to take it seriously. After all, it is ranting. Coulter, on the other hand, does seem to expect to be taken seriously. But whatever her views on the subject, it´s obvious given her sales figures-- Godless debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list (a liberal rag she hates, by the by)-- that people do take her seriously. Which says a great deal more about the average Ann Coulter reader´s lack of ability to think critically than it does about Ann Coulter, I guess. But then, Coulter subscribes to a belief system that considers it a sin to think critically, so I guess I shouldn´t be surprised at that, either.
I wondered, when I was putting myself through the torture of attempting to read Ben Shapiro´s worthless Porn Generation, where he´d gotten his writing style. Well, now I know, and I can safely avoid ever having to read tripe like this again. Unless, that is, another drooling sycophant like Shapiro decides to ape Ann Coulter´s barely-competent writing. (zero)
¤ 5) Paperback Book Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Three Rivers Press. The chapters covering evolution were the most valuable part of the book. After reading it, I begin to rethink my views on evolution. I´ve always considered evolution to be a science, but not anymore. But I don´t consider intelligent design to be a science either. If it is being taught as a science, then that would still be wrong in my opinion. After rethinking my views on this, I think that evolution could be considered as a philosophy. It reminds me of what was said about the so called "theory of everything" in physics. This theory is not considered to be science because it can´t be proved. Like the "theory of everything" in physics; evolution could someday be thought of as a "theory of everything" that applies to biology. Therefore, it would no longer be considered a science, but a philosophy instead.¤ 6) Paperback Book Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Three Rivers Press. "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
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