Taking a shot at a non-fiction book for this review. Ann Coulter has written a number of books, which happens to be when she’s shining her best. She just somehow does it better when she has time to develop her points and explain to you WHY she’s calling liberals idiots. Okay, so I don’t like the fact that she’s been joining the big-name conservative pile-on with Governor Huckabee, and I think she gets just a little too personal and crosses a few too many lines in her attacks, but WOW!!! She’s SMART!!! Her best book (in my not-so-humble opinion) is “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.” In it she details just what lengths liberals go to in order to avoid admitting the utter “religiosity” of their belief systems and just how much they stretch reasonability and rationality in their constant, shrill proclamations that anybody who follows a deity is irreasonable and unrational.
Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of Noah’s ark, but their belief system is taught as fact in government schools, while the Biblical belief system is banned from government schools by law. As a matter of faith, liberals believe: Darwinism is a fact, people are born gay, child-molesters can be rehabilitated, recycling is a virtue, and chastity is not. If people are born gay, why hasn’t Darwinism weeded out people who don’t reproduce? (For that, we need a theory of survival of the most fabulous.) And if gays can’t change, why do liberals think child-molesters can? Pedophilia is a sexual preference. If they’re born that way, instead of rehabilitation, how about keeping them locked up? Why must children be taught that recycling is the only answer? Why aren’t we teaching children “safe littering”?
That’s from the opening chapter, and pretty much sums it up. Again, while I think the woman could tone it down a little bit, some of the stuff she says is nowhere near as vile and baseless as the rhetoric coming from the other side. Still, representing Christianity, we don’t get to play by the devil’s rules.
She gives a particularly plain-man’s skillful deconstruction of the theory of evolution, and how liberal belief in it is really a matter of blind faith… I highly recommend those chapters.
Just a side note: I realize these early reviews are a bit sketchy on details and short, but that’s mainly because the early reviews are of books I read awhile back and so, I am, naturally, a bit sketchy on the details. Give me a couple weeks, and I’ll be reviewing stuff that is fresh in my mind. Coming soon is a review on Brother Andrew’s book, “God’s Smuggler” which I am currently reading. Also, not every book I review will be anything close to new, though I will try to keep up with newer material, especially political books.
For an alternate view of “Godless” …
http://eruditeredneck.blogspot.com/2006/07/er-book-review-godless-church-of.html
I really love Ann Coulter, but some of her rhetorical questions have answers. A few quick ones, off the top of my head:
There is a difference between biology and genetics. For example, new research reveals that sons born later in the birth order to the same mother are more likely to be gay. That has to do with the environment in the womb, not genetics, so it won’t be weeded out of the population.
Also, genes act in a multitude of ways. That which causes someone to be gay, in a male, may cause a female to be especially fertile or long-lived, thereby allowing the gene to perpetrate itself.
Finally, a lot of genetic problems have not been weeded out of the population. Think of Tay-Sachs, which kills people before the age of 3. No one has EVER claimed that evolution is complete.
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Now, of course, I adore Ann and look forward to Thursdays so I can read her column.
She’s smart and knowledgable – and not afraid to call evil that which is evil.
While you think she goes over the line, I can’t help but see WHY she does, and why she’s right. She was talking about liberals not wanting to call “abortion” by that name – “What should we call it? Casual Friday?” and it’s true. They don’t want to call it abortion. It’s “a woman’s choice,” or “her body” or whatever, but it’s certainly not “ending the life of an unborn human.” Sigh.
hmm…….I’m going to sound stupid, but…who’s Ann Coulter??
She’s a conservative columnist, author, and pundit. Some people feel that she is over the top in her criticisms of those on the left.
Her column this week started off with, John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth.
Priceless.
theo,
Haha. Describes him perfectly. May the nice conservatives forgive me, but I love her sense of wit.
[...] a little too personal and crosses a few too many lines in her attacks, but WOW!!! Shes source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism, [...]
Oh….okay..where does she write her column?
In a newspaper or a magazine?
It’s what’s called a syndicated column, where a bunch of different newspapers publish it. She also publishes it online.
You can find it at anncoulter.com
theo, hehe.. you would be astute enough to mention the address. *smacks forehead*
With age, comes wisdom.
Theo,
how much age?
Twenty-mutter-mutter-mutter years.
I’m in my 3d year of law school and I didn’t go straight from undergrad, so you can do the math….
I think trouble wanted to know at what age you get wisdom. I believe it happens somewhere during your junior year of high school when you realize that you’d better get off your butt and get ready for college.
Goodness, I should write another post on here… heh.
Oh, I think the wisdom to attach websites to posts came somewhere in the twenties (if you are slow and technologically incompetent, like me
). Sorry, W&F, it’s another few years for you.
shuddup. twork.
Theo,
That old, huh?
Just kidding…I think.
You may never know for real.
Oh, yeah, and W&F, you may never know what I was really asking.
*evil grin*
Trouble:
:p :p You, too, will one day age. In fact, it seems like only a couple of years ago that I was graduating from high school. My stepmum gave me a scrapbook that had, on the last page, “Theobromophile: [Alma Mater] Class of [not saying].” I was like – [not saying] is a zillion years away!
Yeah, it’s already long gone. I wouldn’t mind this time flying thing, if I didn’t have to get older while it flies by.
Me? Age? Theo, I was born old.
This book was a hard read only because it was a lot of random ranting with no real organization or point other than to associate democrats as librals and librals as evil uneducated lying oppressors of conservative republicans.
But the only truely bad part of this book was between the covers… actually the covers were kinda bad too.
We should all now go and practice “safe littering.”