Coulter Does NYT a Favor; Reviews Own Book

Human Events ^ | June 7, 2006 | Ann Coulter

[boryeulb]

The long-anticipated book Godless: The Church of Liberalism was finally released this week. If the New York Times reviews it at all, they'll only talk about the Ann Coulter action-figure doll, so I think I'll write my own review.

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Godless begins with a murder at the Louvre and then takes readers on a roller-coaster ride through the Church of Liberalism in a desperate game of cat and mouse in which the hunter becomes the hunted -- with a twist at the end you simply won't believe! It's a real page-turner -- even the book-on-tape version and large-print edition! Who knew a book about politics could make such an ideal gift -- especially with Father's Day just two weeks away!

The main problem with Godless is that I had to walk through the valley of darkness to find it. You will have to push past surly bookstore clerks, proceed past the weird people in the "self-help" section, and finally past the stacks and stacks of Hillary Clinton's memoirs. If all else fails, ask for the "hate speech" section of your local bookstore. Ironically, if you find Godless without asking for assistance, it's considered a minor miracle.

This is not a book about liberals. I stress this in anticipation of Alan Colmes hectoring the author to name names. (For people who resented being asked to "name names" during the 1950s, these liberals sure aren't shy about demanding that conservatives do the same today.)

It is a book about liberalism, our official state religion. Liberalism is a doctrine with a specific set of tenets that can be discussed, just like other religions.

The Christian religion, for example, frowns on lying and premarital sex. That is simply a fact about Christianity. This does not mean no Christian has ever lied or had premarital sex. Indeed, some Christians have committed murder, adultery, thievery, gluttony. That does not mean there's no such thing as Christianity any more than videotape of Rep. William Jefferson accepting cash bribes means there's no such thing as congressional ethics rules.

Similarly, the liberal religion supports abortion, but that doesn't mean every single liberal has had an abortion. We can rejoice that liberals do not always practice their religion.

Godless examines a set of beliefs known as "liberalism." It is the doctrine that prompts otherwise seemingly sane people to propose teaching children how to masturbate, allowing gays to marry, releasing murderers from prison, and teaching children that they share a common ancestor with the earthworm. (They haven't yet found the common ancestor ... but like O.J., the search continues.)

The demand that their religion be discussed only with reference to specific individuals -- who is godless? are you saying I'm godless? -- is simply an attempt to prevent us from talking about their religion. This tactic didn't work with Slander or Treason, and it's not going to work now.

It's not just that liberals ban Reform rabbis from saying brief prayers at high school graduations and swoop down on courthouses and town squares across America to cart off Ten Commandments monuments. The liberal hostility to God-based religions has already been copiously documented by many others. Godless goes far beyond this well-established liberal hostility to real religions.

The thesis of Godless is: Liberalism IS a religion. The liberal religion has its own cosmology, its own explanation for why we are here, its own gods, its own clergy. The basic tenet of liberalism is that nature is god and men are monkeys. (Except not as pure-hearted as actual monkeys, who don't pollute, make nukes or believe in God.)

Liberals deny, of course, that liberalism is a religion -- otherwise, they'd lose their government funding. "Separation of church and state" means separation of YOUR church from the state, but total unity between their church and the state.

Two months ago, the 9th Circuit held that a school can prohibit a student from exercising his First Amendment rights by wearing a T-shirt that said "Homosexuality Is Shameful."

Even the left's pretend-adoration of "free speech" (meaning: treason and pornography) must give way to speech that is contrary to the tenets of the church of liberalism on the sacred grounds of a government school.

How might the ACLU respond if a school attempted to ban a T-shirt that said something like "Creationism Is Shameful"? We'd never hear the end of warnings about the coming theocracy.

In fact, students are actually required to wear "Creationism Is Shameful" T-shirts in Dover, Pa., where -- thanks to a lawsuit by the ACLU -- the liberal clergy have declared Darwinism the only true church, immunized from argument. Ye shall put no other God before it. Not one.

Liberals believe in Darwinism as a matter of faith, despite the fact that, at this point, the only thing that can be said for certain about Darwinism is that it would take less time for (1) a single-celled organism to evolve into a human being through mutation and natural selection than for (2) Darwinists to admit they have no proof of (1).

If only Darwinism were true, someday we might evolve public schools with the ability to entertain opposable ideas about the creation of man.

[saganite]

If you don't repent and turn from your sins, you'll be joining him. I wouldn't want that to happen to you.


LOL! Thanks for the heads up. I'll keep your words of wisdom in mind.

[Balding_Eagle]

Any respect I had for her just went down the toilet.

Oh just admit it, you never respected her.

[js1138]

Argumentum ad Baculum.

[BaBaStooey]

I went to my local Barnes and Noble in mid-Michigan on 6/6/2006 fearing the worst, that the new Ann Coulter book, despite the author having several #1 NYT Bestsellers to her credit, would be buried in the back of the store.

To my amazement, not only were there many copies on a rack prominently displayed near the door, they were given the typical best-selling author treatment by being marked 30% off (40% off for B&N Members, which I am one...it makes sense if you buy enough books and magazines).

I bought one immediately and am through the first chapter. I'd be further into the book, but I don't have as much free time on my hands as I used to.

[pgyanke]

Candor is no virtue when it's candid idiocy.

Critique is worthless when it's nothing but invective.

[seanmerc]

I'd like to take credit for them, but they are God's words, not mine. You will eventually have the chance to discuss the issue with Him directly. I hope that by then you're ready, but it doesn't sound like it.

[Right Wing Professor]

Critique is worthless when it's nothing but invective.

That's Coulter to a T, all right.

In the odd times she actually bothers with details or hard facts, she writes things like 'evolutionists think whales are bears that fell in the ocean'.

[Dracian]

Are we sure this stickwoman isn't some plant by the left to fully discredit us?

She's figured out who buys her books, and she is targeting them for their periodic fleecing.

[saganite]

Well, thanks again. Now you can rest easy because at least you tried. Now, give it a rest.

[seanmerc]

Interesting thought, but I'm not appealing to force or the threat of force to bring about the acceptance of a conclusion. I am merely repeating God's word. If you don't agree, take it up with Him directly.

[js1138]

You are the one making claims about God.

[alarm rider]

My you are sensitive aren't you?

She called Muslims "Ragheads"? And you note "Racist rube"? Perhaps you would like to explain just what race Muslims are, after all you brought it up.

[seanmerc]

To be more precise, I'm not making claims. I'm just quoting Him. Thanks for listening--I wish you well.

[Zeppo]

Your arguments are not particularly persuasive or effective when they merely consist of fighting hyperbole with hyperbole of your own...

[js1138]

My Bible doesn't mention Carl Sagan. It does, however, warn about judging others.

[freepertoo]

Saganite...I don't want you to eat your words, either. We all WILL stand before God one day...so don't dismiss it quite so readily. You don't have to belive it for it to be very true...and it is true.

[pgyanke]

That's Coulter to a T, all right.

No. That's you.

Ann uses hyperbole to bolster her points and facts. You use invective to stifle debate. Come now, take on some of her facts and let's have the debate...

[saganite]

Okaaaay. See post 29.

[seanmerc]

She didn't call all Muslims "ragheads." You can find a transcript of her CPAC remarks at http://campusprogress.org/common/761/transcript---ann-coulter-at-cpac-feb-10-2006

[Right Wing Professor]

Your arguments are not particularly persuasive or effective when they merely consist of fighting hyperbole with hyperbole of your own...

I know it's hard to believe anyone could publish something that stupid, but let me quote directly from p. 229 of Godless

The evolutionists' proof is their abilioty to concoct a story. They say the whale "evolved" when a bear fell in the ocean.

Apology accepted, by the way.