Godless: The Church of Liberalism
by Ann Coulter
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Author: Ann CoulterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-26
ISBN: 1400054214
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Book Review: I've Seen Better
Summary: 4 Stars
"The truth is the truth whether we like it or not."
- p. 281 (hardcover edition)
In her fifth best-selling book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism", Conservative commentator Ann Coulter lays out the argument for liberalism as being a religion, despite the fact that its devotees claim to be atheistic. According to Coulter, the mere tenants of liberalism make it a faith that is followed as devoutly as any branch of Christianity. It possesses stories of how we got here (evolution), has rules on punishment (Michael Dukakis' furlough policy that allowed Willie Horton to escape prison and terrorize a couple in their Maryland home), has 'moral' views on human rights (abortion), and protects members of society (teacher's unions). So why are liberals always claiming that they are not religious?
For the first half of the book, Ann discusses most of the topics listed above. Her comments are to the point, yet capture the essence of her argument. However, in the second half of the book (the parts on evolution), she becomes very long-winded. I understood her point in the first of three chapters on the subject, and the usually succinct Coulter drags them out. Despite my liking her other books, this one seemed unnecessarily drawn out.
The reason for the four-star rating? While I agree with most of Coulter's arguments (though not all of them), the writing here isn't as top-notch as I've seen from her before. The second half of the book is very slow reading compared with the first part, and at times I felt like she was merely repeating the same arguments over and over.
A fan of Ann Coulter? Read it. If you don't like her, or what she stands for, stay clear. You're not going to agree with what you read.
Summary of Godless: The Church of Liberalism
"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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