Holy crap. I really have never heard anything quite so inflammatory in my life, nor so removed from a factual basis. Ann really misrepresents liberalism, as well as conservatism. I think that, if all I knew about the two political philosophies were from this book, I would ascribe to neither. Coulter is incredibly tasteless as well, which is honestly something I did not expect from a conservative voice (as their "higher moral standard" is something that they laud themselves for), to the point I would not want my children to listen to this book. I can truly say that this is the most appalled I have ever been from simply reading a book, ever.

Friends, after so many year of darkness and self delusion I have opened my eyes and seen the light: the Truth as finally revealed by Ann Coulter. This fearsome intellectual, evolution scientist, heterosexual, theologian, and keen political analyst, reveals to us the dangers of liberalism, while at the same time extolling the wonderful virtues of capitalistic self interest. Yes, a bright new day has indeed dawned for me, but I'm very sorry for all the pain I have caused to so many conservatives through my false liberal atheism. I sincerely hope that all my current enemies will now become my real friends, and all my current friends will read this book or I'll defriend them.

Take serious heed: America will not survive much longer unless we all embrace Coulter's wisdom immediately.

if you dig right-wing conservatives that trump any argument by saying they are "Christian" and then use profanity while spiting on the graves of victims of 9-11. Then this is the book for you. Also, i think she is anorexic.

I noted that this book is one "they" listed as one of the worst. Sorry...can't agree. Yes it skewers a lot of sacred cows, yes Ann throws bombs...but she usually makes sense. And, she's funny doing it. Everyone has a right to their opinion political and otherwise, don't let it color your opinion as to quality. For what it is this is a well written book. Even if a lot of people would like to burn it.

My advice? Don't decide against reading a book due to someone else's opinion...take a chance, decide for yourself.

I've noticed something odd about this book and others by Ms. Coulter recently. A large number of people condemn them while apparently not being aware what the book(s) is(are) actually about. It's just a thought but if you plan to "dis" a book, it might be an idea to at least find out what it concerns. You might even consider (and I know this is a radical idea) reading it...gasp.

What can I say. I love Ann Coulter. If you can take the tongue-in-cheek sarcasm as just that--sarcasm, Ann's arguements are worth the effort. Great read. I couldn't put it down until I had finished it.

"I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ."
— Ann Coulter (If Democrats had Any Brains, They'd be Republicans)


Even though I never agree with Ann Coulter I used to at least think she was intelligent. She passed the bar exam right? But, after reading Godless: the Church of Liberalism I take that back. This is the worst book I have ever read. And I mean ever.

Coulter’s book is an assault on truth. It is a slap in the face to every conservative whose integrity is constantly being undermined and challenged because they constantly get lumped in with the likes of Coulter and her tubby loud mouthed counterpart Rush Limbaugh, the de facto gas bag of the Republican Party.

The problem with Coulter is that she is so far to the right that everyone, including moderate conservatives are leftists. Last week I heard Glenn Beck tell Rush Limbaugh that the Bush era’s notion of “compassionate conservativism” needs to die a violent death. Coulter’s book is helping them achieve the end of anything remotely close to compassion and empathy in modern Neo-Conservative thinking. Let’s use the word thinking dubiously here.

First of all not all liberals are atheists. There are Christian and Jewish liberals whom would take offense if they were dumb enough, or drunk enough, to read Coulter’s book. Certainly, atheists and free thinkers are among the ranks of the American liberal movement. But they dwell in the right as well. However, the lunacy of the Christian right forces them to keep their mouth shut – at the very least – or make a hypocritical nod to religion in order to protect their careers. John McCain once referred to Jerry Falwell as an agent of intolerance. During his bid for the presidency in 1999 a reporter asked him what he would do if his then teenaged daughter Meghan became pregnant. He shocked the conservatives by asserting it would his daughter’s decision. Some credit this as one of the main reasons his party chose George W. Bush over him. This last time around McCain couldn’t smooch their large white asses fast enough.

That brings us to the issue of abortion. Liberals do not treat abortion like a sacrament. Roe v. Wade is not holy writ. Comparing a Supreme Court decision that protects an individual’s legal right to make decisions regarding their body is not the same thing as the New Testament or the Koran. One of the main differences between Post Modern Liberalism and Neo-Conservativism is who wears the mantle of moral authority. For most liberals it is the individual and not the state. For neo-conservatives it is the state. The state decides what is right and wrong in all areas such as who you eat with, sleep with and ultimately marry.

Conservatives who once represented minimal government influence in the lives of its private citizens now seemingly want to dictate. It confuses murder and stealing with a woman’s right to make decisions regarding her body and it paints liberals as satanic goons gleefully sacrificing unborn babies to Moloch.

Coulter’s book demonstrates the lack of regard for the separation of church and state that is so prevalent in neo-con thinking. Neo-cons become incensed and outraged when liberals challenge prayer in schools and even the Ten Commandments posted in courthouses across the country. They accuse liberalism of pushing a secular religion when in fact it is the conservatives who are always making religion the issue. Their version of the Christian religion is the very heart and soul of their agenda. This includes recent initiatives to create a national “spiritual heritage week” and declaring 2010 the year of the bible.

Coulter demonstrates that religious conservatives fear true learning and open inquiry. She refers to the theory of Evolution as a creation myth and bogus science forgetting all along that the first few chapters of Genesis are the actual myth. Coulter takes up the conservative battle standard and charges forth attacking good scientific reasoning at the gaps in knowledge and declaring evolution as completely unsubstantiated. After all given that the earth is millions of years old we should have figured it all out after 150 years of poking around the fossil record.

Coulter asserts that conservatives are attacked as religious heretics because they dismiss evolution and that liberals are preventing students from learning about real science. God help us she is probably referring to Intelligent Design. Evolution is still a theory in progress. The last word hasn’t been written on it and good scientists are continuing to add to our knowledge and understanding. Conservatives are pissed because liberals are so far quite successful in preventing them from passing off pseudo-scientific nonsense as legitimate.

The true heretics are the neo-conservatives who fail to recognize that our nation’s founders created a secular democratic republic and sought to keep Christianity, or any religion for that matter, from rising to theocratic supremacy. Religion was intended to remain a private matter yet conservatives continue to undermine the intent of the 1st amendment..

Coulter’s book is the worst sort of propaganda. Rather than instigating a thoughtful dialogue between conservatives and liberals it keeps the flames of bitterness, suspicion and hatred fanned between us. Coulter continues the grand tradition of painting all liberals as atheists and all atheists as immoral and corrupt people. But, the liberal and the atheist are as concerned with issues of right and wrong – let’s call it ethics – as any conservative.

Yes liberals have their own complete worldview. We have our own beliefs. Some of us even maintain supernatural enthusiasms and attend church or synagogue. Intelligent people have these things. So what – so we have our own worldview? That is the dumbest criticism that I have ever come across.

The problem with Coulter is that she obscures anything intelligent that conservatives have to offer. While most liberals I know seem to shudder at the notion that conservatives have something to offer, I don’t. There are intelligent, thoughtful and caring people on both sides of the room. The likes of Coulter, Limbaugh and Beck keep the abyss deep and wide between us in an attempt to prevent meaningful dialogue that could really change the face of our nation for the better from taking place.

I am sorry I read this book. There are several hours of my life that I won’t be getting back. This book was so much mental masturbation that I might as well have been actually masturbating. The end result would have been more enjoyable.

Ok, so I love Ann Coulter, I’ve said it. Abrasive and politically incorrect in the extreme, she calls it like she sees it and, if you can get past her confrontational style to her message, she is usually right on the money. (no pun intended…) This is the best of her myriad books and plainly elucidates the core values (or lack thereof) in the ongoing conservative v. liberal philosophical debate. You really ought to read this book, even if you think you can’t stand the author. You may discover that the things she says make a lot of sense.

Complete garbage. A book packed with name calling and absurd generalizations. Even from a conservative perspective this book is best passed over.

I once spent about half an hour at a Palo Alto bookstore leafing through this. Friends often tease me about my willingness to read anything, but it literally made me feel ill. I'm trying to recall other things I've come across that have had a similar effect. The only one I can come up with right now is Wikipedia's description of the notorious viral video 2 Girls 1 Cup. I would guess that I'm less likely to watch that than I am to finish Godless, but it's close.

It's very sad to consider that the book was a major bestseller. At the beginning of the 21st century, why is the US so hellbent on destroying itself? Some day, I predict kids will have to answer that question in history essays, and some of the brighter ones will get extra points for mentioning Ann Coulter. If you're a future history student who's somehow reading this, maybe you could compare her with Joseph Goebbels, but say that she didn't appear to be as talented. Just a suggestion.

Coulter carefully and systematically lays out her idea that liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, but liberalism bears all the attributes of a religion. Coulter reveals the Church of Liberalism, showing 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).
The theme of this book reminded me of Bill O'Reilly's Culture Warrior, another excellent book. I think people, especially moderates, need to read these 2 books so they can know where liberals with this agenda are trying to take our country. Educate yourself and decide which direction you want our country to take.

Ann’s pen is sharp and some of the insults in this book are clever and humorous, but the ugly tone in this book is just plain exhausting. I’m sure there are good arguments for conservatism vs. liberalism in here somewhere, but they are buried so deeply in name calling and vitriol that they are hard to find.

I couldn't get past the first three pages. I felt physically ill as the result of Coulter's vitriol and hate.