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Posted on 06/12/2006 11:54:42 AM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
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I didn't rush to pick up Ann Coulter's "Godless" – even though she is my favorite pundit.
I waited a whole five days after the infamous 6-6-6 release of her indictment of liberalism to devour it cover to cover.
It was not what I expected.
But this one is different.
Frankly, I thought I knew it all when it came to this particular subject – that what we call "liberalism" today is an all-encompassing religious system, completely irrational, completely devoid of any underpinnings in historical fact, common sense or human nature.
All the while pronouncing themselves to be "non-religious," it turns out these modern-day "liberals" are zealots of their own crude, primitive and barbaric faith.
As Coulter puts it: "Liberalism is a comprehensive belief system denying the Christian belief in man's immortal soul. Their religion holds that there is nothing sacred about human consciousness. It's just an accident no more significant than our possession of opposable thumbs. They deny what we know about ourselves: that we are moral beings in God's image. Without this fundamental understanding of man's place in the world, we risk being lured into misguided pursuits, including bestiality, slavery and PETA membership. Liberals swoon in pagan admiration of Mother Earth, mystified and overawed by her power. They deny the biblical idea of dominion and progress, the most ringing affirmation of which is the United States of America."
Unlike Coulter, who still seems to believe the Republicans have the antidote to the political and cultural toxins served up by liberals, I have rarely, if ever, hurled "liberalism" as an epithet. There are many reasons for that – not the least of which is that it means different things to different people at different times and different places.
But, ultimately, no matter which word you use to name the poison, Coulter has broken down the chemical composition of the contaminant.
This book is at once both profound and – this is where the pleasant surprise was – extremely funny!
I mean this is some of the best satire I have ever read. If you liked P.J. O'Rourke at his best, you will love "Godless: The Church of Liberalism." It has a more serious message and it is hysterically funny – even when acutely diagnosing the disease of modern liberalism.
I think more than any of her previous works, this one by Coulter will have, no pun intended, long legs.
Honestly, if you want to ensure that your kids do not grow up to be moral relativists, abortion-on-demand advocates, apologists for the grossest behavior of homosexuals, defenders of murderers, etc., put this book in their hands.
This is not just raw meat for the converted. This is potentially a powerful inoculation against a life wasted by promoting liberal shibboleths.
But, more than that, Coulter has provided us with a manifesto for more clearly perceiving the world in which we live. It's critical to understand we all have a worldview – both believer and non-believer alike. It's also important to understand the worldview of our opponents, our adversaries, our enemies, those who are out to get us at any cost.
I can't think of a better analysis – a more cogent assessment – of who those opponents, adversaries and enemies are than Coulter's "Godless." It's much more than I expected – even with my extraordinarily high expectations for anything Coulter does.
And, best of all, as depressing as are the facts Coulter uses so skillfully to make her case, she has developed a masterful wit that will, at times, leave you doubled over in laughter.
It's no wonder this book has shot right up to the No. 1 position on Amazon. It is destined for the No. 1 spot on the New York Times list – which will really tick off those Godless liberals on 42nd Street.
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Yeah, David Carr picked it up for the N.Y. Times...with his attack piece called deadly intent...he called her one "more nut living in mom's basement."
ROTFLMAO
Wanna make me buddy?
Environmentalism masquerades as science while actually being treated as a religion. I'm a Darwinist, but I have never heard of any attempts by creationists to ban evolutionary research. Liberals, in contrast, are doing everything they can to suppress "global warming skeptics".
We'll...the passages the loony left in the media gloss over prove it...a "distinguished professor" by the name of Paul Singer from Princeton University advocates killing newborn babies...having children for spare body parts for the older children....sex with animals...and sex with dead people (with their consent while their living of course). The great retort from Slate Magazine seemed to only oppose sex with animals on the grounds that the animals must consent! This sort of lunancy is outrageous as it is baffling...and this from a professor at an Ivy League school and a writer from Slate..and they the nerve (and a complete lack of shame) to attack "fundamelaists" like us!
Why are you a Darwinist? Do you believe that it is acceptable to teach a 19th century theory that based on Haeckel's forgeries...the peppered moth myth...the piltdown hoax...the Miller-Urey experiment in confliction with Biogenesis based on assumptions that were abandoned in the seventies that only led to the creation of amino acids...not proteins or living matter?
Sigh, guess I'll never see it in the $ Store, sigh.
Ann C ping.
When will the womenization of our culture end?
It's gone so far now, I notice as the men become women the women are becoming little girls ( or maybe they never grew up).
Esp. in newscasts, the girls are almost babytalking.
This must be true cuz Ann says it is.
Could we have accompanying pictures of the liberal staff and shoppers blanching and getting the vapors immediately after you make your request?
Liberalism has subconscious guiding principles. That is what Ann is trying to point out. Unshakable faith on the part of those who don't believe in faith: the ultimate hypocrisy, in those too dumb to realize it. And Ann hits it spot-on.
Only in that natural selection still remains the best fit to the available data. For immediate proof that natural selection operates, the closest-to-hand evidence is bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Newly introduced antibiotics are always amazingly effective, fr a limited time. Then bacteria evolve resistance, and we have to try newer compounds.
The existence of natural selection does not disprove intelligent design. Framed as a scientific hypothesis ("there exists at least one biological process or structure that cannot be explained by natural selection"), all ID supporters have to do to establish validity is to find ONE such example. The scientific world is still waiting.
"I could order it from Amazon but it's more fun to go to Barnes and Nutless.
I will announce in a loud voice that I can't seem to find Ann Coulters new book Godless. Then one of the nutless libs who works there will have to go with me to the shelf in the back corner.
There we will find it on the bottom shelf backwards and upside down. Of course I will make a HUGE deal out of the fact that all the anti conservative hate Bush books are right in sight of the front door.
I can hardly wait! *chuckle* *chuckle* *snort* *guffaw*"
LMAO!
I had the same experience when I went to buy her "How To Talk to a Liberal" book.
The guy helping me find it was so stunned I was looking for it that he actually made a gulping noise. I gave him the "MOM DEATH STARE" and my daughter started laughing. He tried to make a joke later asking me if I was interested in an Al Franken book. As I turned to look at him again he cowered. Hehe!
Liberalism does at least require faith, I agree, which is a big part of religion. I don't think it's unshakable for everyone though, considering how many of our number here at FR are ex liberals.
IMO, liberals tend to unconcsiously follow multiple principles which are at considerable variance from and opposition to each other. When they become concsious of them, then they have to choose. A surprising number choose to move right - I suppose an even larger number just never wake up.
We'll, there is a similiar example when it comes to pest control...you find something that kills off the greater population, but a tiny fraction have are immune to the pesticide...once you eliminate the rest of the population...then then the immune population will reconstitute the population...to that extent you have change, but the pest remains the same pest estentially and I don't see what is so marvelous about this observation.
You're SO right about that - and thanks for the idea. At my local Barnes & Noble, she is in the back of the store. Now I'll just pretend I can't find it and take a leisurely stroll with one who thinks we are just another species among many and that we in America have no claims to superiority whatsoever.
It bears repeating. Thanks for the idea.
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