While I agree that Ms. Coulter can sometimes go over the edge and offer nothing more than hystrionics, she does so with sex appeal and style. She isn't a simple-minded liberal Hollywood shlub who jumps onto the "progressive" gay-loving, family-hating, flag-burning, Bush-whacko hating bandwagon. She has her own intellectually formed opinions, as strongly worded as they usually are, but they are completely hers and she doesn't hide from her critics either. So although I don't buy into everything she has to say, or maybe just the way she says it, I do find her "in your face" nature to be a nice touche' to the Liberal side.

Coulter makes some good points, but her opinions are so extreme that at times it is hard to accept her credibility. She is as extreme with her conservatism as the extreme left is with their ultra liberalism. If her opinions wouldn’t have been so extreme, I would have rated this book higher. There has to be a happy medium somewhere, but it isn’t to be found in this book — or, so it seems, in the present day. Interesting read, though.

way too over the top. love her humor and cynicism but this one went to far.

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.'"

Another Coulter book, another 300 pages of her rant! The message has some compelling thoughts; however, her delivery, again, is one dimensional and so skewed, that it is difficult to take her seriously.

Some interesting Ann Coulter takeaways:
•tLiberals (i.e., largely democrats) make excuses for murderers, child molesters, etc. with the ‘bad childhood’ excuse. Ann’s view is, well if they are locked up, we don’t have to worry about them committing another crime, do we?
•t“Innocent men will be executed. Death penalty opponents would love nothing more than to produce the case of an innocent person who has been executed in this country, but after decades of fanatical research going back more than half a century, they have not been able to find a single one.” For such an intelligent person, such an absurd statement to make. Here again, she paints her facts to suit her agenda.
•tIf you know Ann, you’ll know her views against abortion. You are entitled to disagree, however, I applaud her putting a spotlight on the lack of thought in what should be a very serious and thoughtful decision.
•tI agree with her views that the bleeding heart liberals view a tragedy as their entitlement to a financial reward, i.e., the 9/11 widows who got millions. Our ambulance-chasing system of justice is repugnant.
•tCoulter spends an entire chapter on the sham of our educational system. By the time they reach high-school age, our students fail miserably when compared to other nations. The teaching profession attracts, in general, the least qualified students and they tend to go to the most mediocre schools. I personally think societal fabric and the home dynamic has a lot to do with our deteriorating performance, but she negates that. She also talks about how teachers bitch and moan about being underpaid, when if you look at their wages per hour worked, their pay is commensurate with lawyers. Additionally, they have outrageous pension packages that the rest of us would kill for. Bravo to Coulter on this topic, I’m sick of paying for public workers who coast along, work half as hard as the rest of us do, and complain that they don’t get paid enough. Yeah? Go into the real world.
•tOther topics covered by Coulter: Darwinism’s evolution versus creation and stem cell research (from the fetus standpoint).

Although, heavy handed, it is worth reading.

Anne is amazingly intelligent and funny in all of her books!

I read this book about 10 or 15 years ago and just reread it with the Afterword. It is one of the most brilliant, entertaining and well-researched books I have ever read. It takes on a passel of sacred cows and annihilates them with erudition and blisteringly good humor. A must-read for anyone flummoxed by our modern world.

I like Ann's wit usually but in this book she just tries too hard. It is better than her previous book because it was just a collection of articles. I read the book Brainless also right before this one and enjoyed how both were using the same hyperbole. I enjoyed her section on teachers and how they are always whining for more money while we let our policemen, child protective services workers and firemen lag behind in pay. I didn't enjoy her going on and on and on about evolution and creative design. One chapter would have been enough. I didn't need it drilled into me. It was overkill. I would suggest you read this book if you haven't seen her on TV lately or if you want to hear her views. Otherwise get it from the bargain bin or wait until it comes out in paperback. Luckily I got it from zooba.com

There should be a law against this kind of meandering nonsense!

One of the most angriest author I've read in my entire life. All she did is haranguing with liberals view. I understand she has to depend the conservative stand but the rages and rants is almost at every words of the book. I felt like reading a op-ed in New York Times. The substance is so devisive and content is like a kinder garden doing her technical writing assignment in English class. Not recommended no wonder it only cost $.5.

Ann Coulter for president!

Quick, interesting read.