Complete horseshit.

A friend gave it to me and I picked it up when avoiding working on my thesis last fall. When I've read Ann Coulter's columns she's usually struck me as unbalanced. Reading her book I decided she's either certifiably crazy OR she's an incredible satirist. (I've chosen to believe the latter :-) She sets out a case for how liberalism is a church and her arguments (while a bit overblown) have substance.

complete and utter poo. the reason she's so damn stupid is that she's obviously undernourished. Get that woman a cheeseburger- STAT!

Ann Coulter is the Devil

My very first Ann Coulter book...I find her outrageously hilarious. If I had more guts I'd be as outspoken as she is. Her books, including this one, are generally self-absorbed and depreciative of anyone not a conservative, but therein lies the humor. Liberals take themselves way too seriously...Coulter takes advantage of their sensitive feelings and uses their public outrage to fuel her own popularity and book sales. Smart woman.

I have pretty much always been critical of liberals and their "trendy", unthinking attachment to what they deem is science. Having studied far and wide the great thinkers and scientists of the past, it was impossible to reconcile that with the "trendy" science of many mainstream liberals and left-leaning people, but also of many people in general unfortunate enough to never study philosophy or critical thinking and so to only have the official story of science taught them at high school level to go off for the rest of their lives. This "schooled" view of science gets schooled very well in its turn in this book of Ann Coulters.

It is refreshing to read for me, though the political posturing to enrage liberals is at times not to my taste or interest. But in the second half of the book pretty much the focus is all on the kind of "trendy" science I mentioned above. And how this has become like a religion to many liberals. These people I can only feel sorry for, because in the absence of a good empowering influential figure in their life they have been taught a view that tells them their life is a meaningless, random accident, and that they can only rely on technology and "progress" as their salvation. They have lost their birthright to believe in themselves and progress under their own autonomous compulsion and power as spiritual beings. They sold it away to a dangerously seductive lie of technological progress and state support that can never fill up the gaps and emptiness in their own souls.

I had to read this for a class, and the logical fallacies make me shudder. She assumes 1) all religious people are religious in the same way. 2) Her beliefs are the 'right' ones. 3) Religious equals conservative (um, no) and then she sets out to attack liberalism using the same illogical measuring stick. All schools ban prayer (No, they ban teacher led prayer, and let a Muslim teacher try to lead a prayer and the Christians will cling to that rule that a baby holding onto momma). All school teachers are liberal (Have you ever stepped inside a real school?) And liberals are generally a monolithic group who believe in free abortions, free sex, and destroying the United States.

Funny enough, both liberals and conservatives; Christians, atheists, Jews, Hindus and Muslims; patriot Americans and ex-patriots all have individuals within their ranks. Those individuals have a spectrum of beliefs. But dealing with complex realities is so much less fun than overgeneralizing people and making ignorant comments.

It makes me sad that this country has turned to the most extreme ends of the political spectrum and given them the reins. More than that, it makes me afraid.

One of two books in my entire life/history of reading that I just never finished and don't care to finish.

Coulter's fifth book, published by Crown Forum in 2006, is Godless: The Church of Liberalism.

In this book, she argues, first, that American Liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, and second, that it bears all the attributes of a religion itself. All of these claims are accurate.
But I feel like this could have been better. If the whole book expanded deep into chapter 10: "The Scientific Method of Stoning and Burning", this could have been a classic due to the fact that Neo-Darwinists (Darwinism is completely dead now) do persecute, censor, and punish anyone that may disagree with them, as the famous documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" (2008) showed.

Coulter could've anticipated this phenomenon that has now permeated Academia since Intelligence Design has taken Natural Sciences by storm.
Now, you can't even mention Intelligence Design, not even imply that is remotely scientific. Whether you are inside a high school classroom or getting your Ph.D., Neo-Darwinists will find you and punish you if you dare question the Evolution Mythos.
I believe this has happened so many times now that you can literally write a trilogy just to mention the legal cases where scientists have been persecuted and expelled from schools at all educational levels because they dare to even name those two prohibited words: Intelligence Design.

Godless debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Seller list.

If the degree to which an author's work generates strong opinion is, in any way, an indication of the quality of the author's ability, then Ann Coulter has to be one of the world's greatest. This entertaining, well-researched, and intelligently argued book shines a light on the methods, beliefs, and misbehaviors of those who advance the liberal agenda to the exclusion of all else, and attack with a crusader's zeal anyone who dares to express even a doubt in their doctrines.

Judging from the activism against her since publication of "Godless", it is clear that Ms. Coulter has landed a blow close to the heart of the liberal body politic. Ironically, however, the criticism and attempts to silence her support the arguments she makes in the book.

Despite the predictable caterwauling from the left's amen corner, "Godless" is a great read, and discerning readers will appropriately view the hue and cry for Ann's head on a platter as a ringing endorsement.

Giving another one star review to Ann Coulter''s Godless is probably just another example of sadistic sodomistic necrophilia (that's beating a dead horse) yet anything to lower the general review rating to a more realistic level (like...maybe...one) should be appreciated.

Bottom line. Coulter reveals herself in this book to be petty, vicious, totally devoid of any real ability to understand anything of a scientific nature, and totally unwilling to have an open mind about anything outside her own very narrow outlook. Coulter's attempts to call Liberalism a religion does nothing but expose the fact that she has no idea but a religious ideology is. Certainly, if anyone has turn her political viewpoint into a religion it is Ann Coulter. I have always been at a loss to understand why she is so popular because most of the conservatives I know can't stand her either. There must be a lot of stupid conservatives out there that I haven't met.

Now I want to get on my 58 year old soapbox for a minute. American political commentary wasn't always this awful. When I grew up in the 60s and 70s, there were a lot of stupid AND smart commentators on the air, both liberal and conservative. There were even some moderate commentators. Isn't that an extinct breed now? Yet that changed after the loss of the Fairness Doctrine. (edit: For those who are unfamiliar with this concept, The Fairness Doctrine was an FCC regulation that required American broadcasters to present both sides of an issue. It was removed in the early eighties not coincidentally ringing in the beginning of shows like Rush Limbaugh who had no incentive or ability to present a fair sided debate) Broadcasters went for the lowest denominator. They would put on commentators who massaged their audience's ego and not actually examine all sides of a topic. We have turned into a nation of close minded narcissists who don't even know how to intelligently put forth an argument for their belief. That certainly describes Coulter who thinks people do not take her seriously because "I'm beautiful". News flash. People do not take you seriously because you do not present anything to take seriously. I think the popularity of the Coulters and Limbaughs are directly attributable to the end of the Fairness Doctrine and the creation of pseudo news station that pretend to be "Fair and Balanced". And before someone shouts "What about the liberals"..yes, I put MSNBC in this category of pseudo news station, yet not CNN and NPR which remains in my opion, to be fairly objective. I consider myself smart enough to notice and examine any subjectivity in a news report, which will always be there somehow. This is what we have lost in our dialogue; our own ability to seek all sides and then make an informed decision. Until that is returned, the Coulters of the world will continue to usher in a new age of stupidity.

I need to choose my words here very carefully so as not to offend anyone. Ann Coulter is a fucking retarded skank. Did I do OK with that? As far as I have read, she has never held an opinion that was based on anything other than hate, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, or misinformation. The thing is, who cares? Why this creep has any sort of voice in our society is completely beyond my capacity for understanding.