Sunday, July 02, 2006

Will this Dogma hunt?

I don't know if Ann Coulter is a plagiarist, but she certainly is repetitive. I've been trying to read "Godless," but so far it's not new, or even insightful. More like a bunch sarcastic one-liners concatenated.

I've never liked her style, even when I agree with her arguments. I was kind of hoping this book would break new ground, but it doesn't. So far, all she talks about are thirty-year-old court cases.

There's a good case to be made that liberalism bears the earmarks of a new age non-traditional religion, but this books, at least so far, doesn't do it. I had hoped for some discussion of what a religion, or a church, is, and more details to support her allegations. I'd love to see a compilation of all the environmental rhetoric that uses religious terms, like "holy," "sacred," "cathedral," etc. when speaking about stuff like Caribou calving grounds and other "threatened wilderness."

The current obsession with alleged plans for "theocracy" being promoted by evangelical Christians is a fat target, considering the extent to which Anti-religion has been made the State Religion of the United States. It could be a devastating study, but Coulter hasn't done it.

The "plagiarism" being charged by a promoter of anti-plagiarism software, sounds sloppy, but no worse that Dore Kearnes Goodwin's or Stephen Ambrose. Don't expect this to go away as quickly as those did, though. Coulter is the left's Anti-Christ, and they're out to crucify her.

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