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]

someday we might evolve public schools with the ability to entertain opposable ideas about the creation of man.

We already do. It's called Sunday School.

[TheDon]

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).

LOL! I will definitely buy it!

[seanmerc]

Carl Sagan believes in God now.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

I agree with Ann Coulter in principle, but I can't help feeling she is an attention wh*re.

[Tzimisce]

I love Anne Coulter - she's great. :)

[FourtySeven]

For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But I debunk the myth of the "rational" liberal guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method and expose the truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: It is bogus science.

I honestly had no idea she believed this. (even if she's just pandering to a certain group of conservatives, it's meaningless)

Any respect I had for her just went down the toilet. First, earlier this year, I heard that she called all Muslims "ragheads" at the CPAC convention, and now this? Talk about walking right into the stereotype of a conservative: Racist rube.

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

[saganite]

You had a seance with Carl? Remarkable.

[RogueIsland]

Anne should stick to topics she has some actual knowledge of. It's clear that Evolutionary Biology is not among those topics. I guess humiliating yourself in public by parading your scientific ignorance for all to see is the new recreational activity of conservative pundits.

[Shadowfax]

"We already do. It's called Sunday School."

Public school = Sunday school?

Um, no.

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . if you find Godless without asking for assistance, it's considered a minor miracle.

My local Barnes and Noble had it right out front. But then the store is located very near the University of Notre Dame, whence miracles major and minor occur on a regular basis.

[saganite]

I meant religion should be taught on Sundays in Sunday School and church and science should be taught in the classroom.

[Minus_The_Bear]

Sagan's "scientific spirit" lives on through Art Bell. UFO nuts and potheads unite!

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

True. All she is trying to do is create as much controversy (read publicity) for her new book which she expects to translate into sales. I have gone through a couple of her earlier books. She is a very mediocre writer.

[GretchenM]

The title promises for a good read.

Now back to read what Ann wrote about her book.

[pgyanke]

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

I'm not sure who you mean by "us". I only wish our political "leaders" would speak with half the candor. Her language is harsh? Tough toenails. At least her ideas get attention. Get past the language and tell me where she's wrong...

[seanmerc]

No. I don't need a seance--God's word (the Bible) tells us not to consult mediums or spiritists.

What I DO know is that unless Sagan had a deathbed conversion [possible but unlikely], he is in hell right now. If you don't repent and turn from your sins, you'll be joining him. I wouldn't want that to happen to you.

[saganite]

If you can't argue facts just hurl insults?

[Right Wing Professor]

Candor is no virtue when it's candid idiocy.

[Right Wing Professor]

If you can't argue facts just hurl insults?

Well, we are discussing Coulter, after all. :-)