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Book Review

COULTER’S GODLESS SHEDS LIGHT ON LIBERAL BEHAVIOR

By Diane Levero

When conservative attack dog Ann Coulter’s book, Godless:  The Church of Liberalism, came out in early June, mainstream media, virtually to a man, lasered in on Coulter’s criticism of four 9/11 widows known as the Jersey Girls.

Coulter’s skewing of these women, whose husbands died in the attack on the World Trade Center, was merciless.

“These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis,” she wrote; “I’ve never seen people enjoying their husbands’ deaths so much.”

Her critics were aghast:  how dare she ridicule these poor, grieving women?

But that was precisely her point in bringing up the Jersey Girls.  Liberals, who are “enraged that Republicans are allowed to talk back,” have hit on an ingenious strategy, she says. They choose messengers whom we’re not allowed to reply to – “human shields” – to deliver their message.

Thus, conservatives look like cads if they respond to the Jersey widows’ condemnation of Bush’s handling of 9/11; or paralyzed Christopher Reeve arguing for embryonic stem cell research; or Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq, who has made Bush-bashing a full-time career.

Coulter, whose controversial book is still No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list at this writing, notes dryly, however, that none of her critics have disputed the basic premise of the book.

That premise is simple but far-reaching:  liberalism is a religion, albeit a godless one, protected and enforced by the state and ably supported by its loyal ally, the mainstream media.

Liberalism, Coulter points out, has all the attributes of religion:  sacraments (abortion), holy writ (Roe v. Wade), clergy (public school teachers), churches (government schools, where children are indoctrinated), martyrs (such as Soviet spy Alger Hiss and multiple murderer Tookie Williams), and incontrovertible dogma (evolution).

Coulter, who has a law degree from University of Michigan, supports each assertion in her case with copious evidence.  

But she brings out her big guns for evolution, which is, as she ably demonstrates, the essential platform that undergirds all liberal beliefs and behavior.

“Liberals’ creation myth is Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution,” she writes.  

“It’s a make-believe story, based on a theory that is a tautology, with no proof in the scientist’s laboratory or the fossil record – and that’s after 150 years of very determined looking.

“We wouldn’t still be talking about it but for the fact that liberals think evolution disproves God.”

Coulter does a masterful job of exposing the glaring lack of evidence for the theory of evolution.  

I especially enjoyed her ridicule of the fraudulent Piltdown Man and Haeckel’s drawings of embryos, since I was taught these as proofs of evolution in high school biology class.

But liberals still enforce their dogma of evolution in the schools and in all public discourse with fanatic rigor, because with it, they can justify anything – eugenics, abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, assisted suicide, even pedophilia and bestiality.

“Certain patterns of behavior and beliefs flow naturally from the idea that man is an accident with no greater moral significance than a stalk of corn,” Coulter notes.

Coulter’s style is unapologetically aggressive and occasionally abrasive; some of her remarks are undoubtedly “over the top.”

But her analysis of liberalism as a religion rings true.  It goes far in explaining the sometimes otherwise inexplicable behavior of its practitioners.

And the mischievously wicked wit with which she targets liberal icons is often just plain fun.