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"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."
"Liberals seem to have hit upon a reverse Christ story as their
belief system. He suffered and died for our sins; liberals make the
rest of us suffer for sins we didn't commit."
Who are the victims here? To hear liberals tell it, you'd think
they do nothing but suffer at the hands of ruthless entities like
the "Republican Attack Machine" and Fox News.
Really?
It's just another instance of the Big Lie, of course, told so often
that some people have actually started to believe it. In "Guilty,"
Ann Coulter explodes this myth to reveal that when it comes to
bullying, no one outdoes the Left. Citing case after case, ranging
from the hilariously absurd to the shockingly vicious, Coulter
dissects these so-called victims who are invariably the oppressors.
For instance:
-Single mothers: Getting pregnant isn't like catching the flu.
There are volitional acts involved-someone else explain it to
Dennis Kucinich. By this purposeful act, single mothers cause
irreparable harm to other human beings-their own children-as
countless studies on the subject make clear.
-The myth of the Republican Attack Machine: The most amazing thing
liberals have done is create the myth of a compliant right-wing
media with Republicans badgering baffled reporters into attacking
Democrats. It's so mad, it's brilliant. It's one kind of lie to say
the Holocaust occurred when the Swedes killed the Jews. But it's
another kind of lie entirely to say the Holocaust occurred when the
Jews killed the Nazis.
-"Brave" liberals: In addition to being beautiful, compassionate
tribunes of the downtrodden, liberals are brave. I know that
because they're always telling me how brave they are. Why, five
nights a week, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann courageously books guests
who completely agree with him. It doesn't get much braver than
that.
-Obambi's luck: While B. Hussein Obama piously condemned attacks on
candidates' -families, his media and campaign surrogates ripped
open the court-sealed divorce records of his two principal
opponents in his Senate race in Illinois.
-The offenders are offended!: Republican senator George Allen's
career was destroyed when he made a joking remark to a privileged
Indian American harassing him at campaign stops. When did rich kids
become a new protected category that must be shielded from words
that are insulting in other languages? How did Sidarth become a
specially anointed victim? What did we ever do to India? And why
didn't we ever hear about the far more offensive anti-Semitic
flyers of Allen's opponent Jim Webb?
One essential and recurring truth about self-righteous liberals,
says Coulter, is that "they viciously attack all while wailing that
they are the true victims." With "Guilty"-a mordantly witty and
shockingly specific catalog of offenses that liberals would rather
we ignore and forget-Ann Coulter presents exhibits A through Z.
"From the Hardcover edition."
The hottest and most controversial book of the year! Find out who really controls the media in America.
“[Ann Coulter] is never in doubt. And that, along with her bright writing, sense of irony and outrage, and her relish at finally hitting back at political opponents (especially in the media) is what makes Slander such refreshing and provocative reading.” —Los Angeles Times
“[Ann Coulter] is a fluent polemicist with a gift for Menckenesque invective . . . and she can harness such language to subtle, syllogistic argument.” —Washington Post Book World
“The most popular nonfiction book in America.”—New York Times
“The real value of Slander . . . is not in the jokes or devastating exposés of liberal politicians and their allies, but the serious and scholarly study of just how entrenched the media prejudice is against anyone whose politics are even faintly conservative.” —New York Sun
“Written with a great deal of passion . . . the real source of its strength—and its usefulness—was its painstaking marshalling of evidence . . . More important than [High Crimes and Misdemeanors] because it addresses a much broader issue, and one of lasting significance.”—National Review
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