Dear Ann, I am Godless!
There's a remarkable assumption forming the central thesis of Ann Coulter's new book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" in which she seems to take it as a given that being called an atheist is somehow an insult.
She warms to her theme on her latest posting on her dreadful site by shrieking:
Hello! Anyone there? I've leapt beyond calling you traitors and am now calling you GODLESS.She seems somehow baffled that no-one's responding. Dear Ann, no-one's responding because no-one's insulted.
I am actually rather pleased that here in old Europe we seem to have shuffled off the mumbo jumbo of organised religion and that only six percent of our population are regular church goers. I regard that as a healthy sign in any society when they begin to embrace scientific fact rather than religion.
Don't get me wrong, there are many people I know who do have religious beliefs and I respect their right to hold them just as they respect the fact that I do not share their belief system.
Ann seems to find the fact that some people don't share her Christian beliefs as a valid reason to attack them.
You'd be as well calling me "Whitey" and expecting me to find the remark injurious. The only possible response to such a charge would be, "Yep, that'll be me."
I find it funny that she's wasted months of her life writing this supposedly insulting tome and that she's based it all on a premise that is essentially wrong.
I don't as an atheist find it remotely insulting for someone to call me "Godless."
I am. And I'm very happy to be so.
However, if I were to look at the teachings of Christ and the principles that he asked that we live our lives by - tolerance, compassion towards others, blessed are the poor, etc - then I'm afraid this old atheist is far nearer to being the kind of person that He asked us to be than Ann and her cronies will ever be.
Every time I have ever read one of Ann's column's I am always struck by the sheer level of hate and vitriol that stains every page.
It's all so.... how can I put it.... un-Christian.
So you fire way Ann. Having listened to your vitriolic outbursts I am very happy not to be one of your bretheren.
Oh, and while you're at it, why not call me "two eyes?"
Ouch, such barbs!
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Her book is a little worse than just calling people who aren't Christianist fanatics "godless." My understanding -- which is all it will be because I won't be thumbing through her textual bile -- is that, in the book, she spends a great deal of time pumping up the attacks on biology and evolution as "dogma." Just as the rest of the idiot ID clowns have been doing. But bad ol' Ann takes it a step further, as you migth expect, by claiming that "biology" is not "real science" because it is sports a large fraction of women in the field. To Ann, the presence of women in a field of endevour discredits the field as unserious. Women, you see, are silly and and unserious and therefore biology must be too.
No, I am not making that up.
Thanks Bhc, that really made me laugh. And were it anyone else I would think you were making that up.
But I've read a few blogs about her attacks on biology and some biologists say she's so far off the mark it's scary. She is literally making a lot of it up.
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