Update 6/13 – Looks like two NJ Dems are pushing to ban the sale of Coulter’s book. Wow.
Ann Coulter’s book Godless: The Church of LIberalism is currently Amazon’s top selling book. Yesterday on Uncommon Descent, William Dembski made an interesting remark about how Coulter’s book will probably help the cause of Intelligent Design:
Having been a sounding board for Ann Coulter on chapters 8-10 of GODLESS, I’m happy to see the entire book now that it is out. Ann is taking Phillip Johnson’s message as developed in DARWIN ON TRIAL and REASON IN THE BALANCE and bringing it home to the masses. Critics will dismiss it for its hyperbole, lack of nuance, and in-your-face attitude. But she has the gist just right, which is that materialism (she calls it liberalism) dominates our culture despite being held by only a minority of the populace and has become an agenda among our elites (academy, scientists, media) for total worldview reprogramming. Close to half the book is devoted to science and evolution. I cannot help but feel that GODLESS will propel our issues in the public consciousness like nothing to date. Phil Johnson’s DARWIN ON TRIAL took ten years to sell 300,000 copies. I expect Ann will sell more than that in ten weeks.
Despite Ann’s "lack of nuance," I do find her entertaining.
If Ann Coulter is going to be the spearhead for fundamentalist idea’s, secular society is in great shape. I mean really, I have already proved her contention that “evolution is not falsifiable” a lie. Just like in “Goodfellas” I find her “funny like a clown.” Anyone who takes her seriously is probably gullible and uneducated.
What makes her valuable is not her “unassailable logic” and scientific acumen, but her ability to put into words what many people feel about what is now being called the “angry left” – no matter what they profess in their value statements, in practice, they give the impression, accurate or not, of being anti-god, anti-religion, anti-child, anti-family, pro-collectivism (read “pro-socialist, pro-communist”), pro-evolutionism to a fault (i.e. they are really not open to any real criticism), and materialistic to a fault.
She goes over the top, and surely makes some statements that are not quite accurate. But she is saying what many of us feel – that the angry, extreme left which governs the Democratic party is bad for families, bad for people of faith, and bad for government. And they have no visible desire to do any different – electing loudmouthed far-left whackos like Dean to represent you may seem bold, to most of us, it just shows how out of touch Dems are.
I don't like Dean. I would probably vote for Mark Warner for President in the primary. I used to live in VA and Warner did a great job of getting the state out of debt.
But she is saying what many of us feel – that the angry, extreme left which governs the Democratic party is bad for families, bad for people of faith, and bad for government.
But this means she a just a demagogue. Though you may feel liberals are bad for families, faith and government, the other half of the country, the liberals feel the same way about conservatives. It's a nasty divide to be sure, but I do know Ann Coulter does not help the situation at all with her rhetoric. You think the left are really not open to any real criticism but we feel the same about the right.