Definitely not the Thomas-ile

Jul 29, 2006 22:28

I am babysitting tonight, for some neighbors down the street in the duplex that I had no idea existed until 1:00 this afternoon. Their little girl is adorable, as are most little girls, but like most small girls, very needy of attention. I've noticed this. It is the general trend in the babysitting world that the girls are much more trouble than boys.

This is why I like babysitting boys better than girls. It is easier to clean up the stuff they mess up than to pander to an adorable little girl.

Anyway, I was never like that.

I have noted a copy of Ann Coulter's "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" on the desk next to me, and I must quote the entire blurb:

"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 country.

"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 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' aboslute 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."

It is people like Coulter that make me mad. And it is not even because she is conservative and creepy-looking. (Okay, it is not ALL because she is conservative and creepy-looking.) Coulter's writings are not intended to entertain (although they might), to inform (far too biased for that, thanks much) or to persuade, but to attack. By writing as she writes, she is as likely to encourage a healthier two-party system as I am to become Prime Minister of England. Part of why she makes me mad is because I DO NOT AGREE WITH HER AT ALL. But really. Freedom of the press sucks sometimes.

Although the lack of it would be worse.

Oh, and if David Seitz is reading this:

The woman I'm babysitting for?

Her name is SHELLIE.

fire, brimstone, politics, darwinism, hell, abortion, conservatives, stupid ideas

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