Godless

The Church of Liberalism

By: Ann Coulter

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

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 audiobook 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.

©2006 Ann Coulter (P)2006 Books on Tape

Outstanding

I can not begin to express my thankfulness for such a masterpiece. This book tells it like it is with a "right in your face" format. It is about time someone wrote the truth.... Thank you Ann

Godless

Godless--The Church of Liberalism. Ann Coulter is funny, and many of her comments are right-on.

Intelligent Design, only logical perspective

Brilliant and funny, Ann Coulter pokes massive holes in liberal propaganda. Listen and laugh, because you're going to enjoy how she breaks it down and provides support for Intelligent Design.

Interesting read

WOW ! that is all I have to say. 12 hours of the most deranged vitriolic utterances one will ever hear. Another case of a vehemently devout religious type using the good intentions of religion to seperate and divide. On the other hand I listened intently to the whole thing 12 hours worth shaking my head the entire time. She is a talented writer and every progressive thinking person out there should listen to this entertaining book no matter how much you'll disagree with what she says. The difference between us liberals and the neo-con's is that we will always stand up for thier rights to personally attack those they disagree with.

Finally!!!

What a gutsy person! Ann courageously stands up to the left, and shouts those unspoken truths to their faces. And the worst replies she gets is the whines and tears from surprised liberals who can’t imagine why anyone would target poor grieving (and EXTREMELY RICH) widows! I am still waiting to hear what they say when they read what she wrote on the public school system (indoctrination of our children into the state religion), the teachers (their lies about not being paid enough when they make more money than most other professions, which we should understand, considering the ridiculous college courses they have to take), and the Darwin Theory of evolution (refuted time and time again, but yet, our kids are fed in schools it is *THE ONLY* explanation of why we are here)...but I won't hold my breath.

Interesting view from the right

This book is obviously written from the far political right. It nonetheless makes excellent point in regards to religion, education and evolution issues. It is unfortunate that she dilutes the insights of her words with the need to use juvenile techniques like name calling, ridicule and just plain meaness when it is not necessary to make her otherwise interesting and strong points. Her views, of course, are only from the right and is not a 'balanced' view. Her comments on education are exceptionally well done and should be food everyone's thoughts. Her discussion of intelligent design would have been more compelling if she spent some time supporting intelligent design in ways other than pointing out the large holes in the theory of evolution. Her points re: the inconsistency of evolution are very good but her argument for intelligent design appears to be that evolution theory doesn't really explain all that much. This makes evolution look bad, but it is a very indirect support of intelligent design.
She uses the New York Times as both a symbol of liberalism yet, also uses it to support some of her views. If you are a liberal you will likely hate the tone and many of the arguments she makes, however, many of her points are very worthy of consideration. If you are a conservative you will like her views but may not like her tone. The most obvious short coming is that there is not one criticism or negative word re: conservatives that I can remember. It is even harder to believe that conservatives are perfect than to believe they are always right.
If you can get over the meaness in her words, the book is well worth reading.

Great book!

I really enjoyed listening to this work; the truths contained therein are brutal and easy to understand.

8/10ths of a good book

As the closing piece on the NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams intoned solemnly that while he respected the right of free speech for all, Ann Coulter, in her new book, had “gone over the line” in questioning the motives of the New Jersey 9/11 widows who publicly condemned the government’s failure to detect and stop the 9/11 attacks. I decided to download this book to see what Mr. Williams choler was all about. It gave me a chuckle find that Ms. Coulter suggested that the liberal religion made saints out of people who had sustained a significant loss and then employed them as “human shields” to propound liberal dogma. Their “moral authority” made them invulnerable to dispute or question. Brian Williams and Hillary Clinton responded exactly as Ms. Coulter predicted. They did not dispute the accuracy of her proposition but condemned the profanity inherent in her raising questions about these icons.

The fundamental premise of this book is that flakey liberals are as blindly committed to liberal dogma as flakey fundamentalists are to theirs. Ms. Coulter is outrageous in the way she presents her ideas but so is James Carville. Both have ideas that are worth serious consideration. Outrageous is how they get noticed.

The book was thought provoking and entertaining until she got to the final section on evolution. Her point there is that the concept of spontaneous mutation and natural selection, while compelling, is not coherent enough to be taken as fact. This point is conceded by most thinking people today. She takes the final two hours of the recording to beat this issue to death. My advice: listen to and enjoy Ms. Coulter’s outrageous, entertaining and, yes, thought provoking banter until she gets about 10 minutes into her discussion of evolution. By that time she will have said all she has to say on the subject. Turn off the machine and move on to another audio book.

An entertaining listen.

If you are conservative and like to hear yourself talk this is the book for you. The author is a master of rhetoric. While I agree with her on every point discussed and admire her research, her extensive use of logical fallacies would be transparent to an educated liberal. If educated liberal was an oxymoron, this would be the book to quote. The reader is excellent and reads the book as if she was having a conversation with the listener. Even with it’s flaws, I still highly recommend listening to it.

Very refreshing conservative view

After reading this book, I have new-found respect for the conservative view. As a person raised as a christian and educated in the engineering/science field, I often have to defend my conservative background in front of the liberals. Thanks for helping me with my arguments. The author takes offenses on the liberal logics but did not attempt to defend the conservative logics - a shortcoming of the book.