Ann Coulter's Godless - Faultless
...at least as far as page 6, anyways. But I'm going to go ahead and vouch for the rest of it because I think the 'appeal to authority' argument is plenty enough justification in this instance.
Some background: I did not intend to buy the book now, and in fact as I was rushing through an airport today I had two perfectly respectable pieces of reading material which would have carried me through my air-miles quite sufficiently.
But I turned a corner into Dulles Airport's B-gate and walked smack into the Borders store with this as the front level display:
Be still my aching, Coulter-deprived heart.
Now, I didn't need a book, because I've got a hundred books at home I should have already read, but if you put Ann Coulter's photo on a box of matzoh, even though I am not Jewish and I eat low-carb and I do not really like matzoh, I would buy that Ann Coulter Matzoh, just for the picture.
Therefore, I guess we can say I'm in the 'sympathetic' demographic for the purposes of Ann Coulter-related marketing campaigns. I can live with that.
So once we get beyond the photo of Ann on the front cover - which, when you think about it, there's really no hurry to do, because it's a flattering picture (is there any other kind?) and in our busy society how much beauty do we really take the time to appreciate, and, jeez, that's got to be a waist of like 22 inches and a bust of like.... - ok, sorry, THAT was straying from the report...
Once we get beyond the photo, as Donky Cons aptly noted some time back, this book is going to turn some heads. Or explode some heads, as the case may be.
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.)
Reading a little further:
The core of the Judeo-Christian tradition says that we are utterly and distinctly apart from other species. We have dominion over the plants and the animals on Earth. God gave it to us, it's ours - as stated succinctly in the book of Genesis. Liberals would sooner trust the stewardship of the Earth to Shetland ponies and dung beetles.
Scanning the book, I deem this an amazingly accurate analysis of the "church of liberalism." There's way more to discuss than I have time for this week. I predict this book will be one of the major news themes of the summer.
Ann Coulter is an American treasure. For purely intellectual reasons.
Much more on Ann from Donky Cons, here.



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