There are all kinds of books out there that point out how bad our depraved culture is, so I have put off reading this book for some time. Most of these books print a few outrageously wrong occurrences and then spend 100 pages complaining. You only need read the newspaper to see more outrages than you can comprehend in our country that was once so noble and free.

But this book goes deep to the root of many of the problems and I was blown away by the intelligence of this author and his synthesis.Ten chapters, "Selling "gay rights"", "myth of church-state separation", "sex and rebellion", "multicultural madness", "family meltdown", "Fraudulent Science" (Pervert Kinsey and his lies), Schools, Media, Abortion, and Christianity. All are excellent.

When you read a sentence like this, "Their [perverts] campaign will not end until Christians and other traditionalists opposing homosexuality are shut up, discredited, and utterly silenced" written in 2005 and then read the paper and see churches and temples vandalized, innocent people attacked by howling mobs of queers, daily terrorist threats being delivered in the mail complete with white powder, and the witch hunts to remove anyone who thinks different from their livelihoods, you have to be amazed at the prescient writing of Kupelian.

The other chapters are equally informative. The depravity of our divorce rate, abortion rate, our schools and yes even our churches are pointed out. I've waited a long time for a conservative to take on the Christian churches who use the very tools and manipulations of the evil side to try and out-entertain the media.

You need to read this book if you want any depth of understanding of the tactics that are tearing down the fabric of our civilization. 5 Stars and Thank You and God Bless Mr. Kupelian.

The book was well documented and honest. The author did a fine job of presenting the facts without twisting them. I would recommend that every American read this book. It is an eye opener and although some of the informatiion in it caused me great sadness, I know that the facts were accurate.

Finally, someone has seen fit to be honest with the American public about the manipulations we are fed on a daily basis.

Much of what David Kupelian writes about in "The Marketing of Evil" is deeply troubling. Unfortunately, the book suffers from the same basic problems as the news stories on Mr. Kupelian's website WorldNetDaily: poor writing and an excess of "spin". His basic premises may be valid, but the way he puts forth his arguments are completely over-the-top.

He also suffers from the delusion that everyone who believes in traditional Judeo-Christian morality also agrees 100% with the Republican agenda when it comes to other issues. There are many religious believers out there who are conservative on sexual morality but liberal on things like the environment, the Middle East, social justice, multiculturalism, etc.

It's really too bad that this book wasn't better written, as its message is an important one for people to hear.

Thank God for patriots like David Kupelian. This is a great book, that really needs to be in every concerned Americans library.

Isn't life so much easier when we can avoid the pitfalls and stay clear of brain fog? This book is a lighthouse in the mist! Why especially so for mothers and caregivers serving as mothers? They are the starting point for each life that comes into the world. How wonderful to give that new life a solid light to follow and a strong, solid rock to walk on so they can spend their time on this earth in the pursuit of happiness and freedom! We are grateful for the time and research and courage this author lives to bring us this work.

I expected to agree with this book. The idea of the media and educational establishment deliberately corrupting America is entirely plausible to me, so I was looking forward to hearing Kupelian's case.

The first two chapters were full of factual errors, some of which are outright lies. I've read most of the books he referred to and know about the subjects he was discussing, so I could see the way he twisted or glossed over facts to suit his purposes. After the second chapter of slapdash research and shoddy arguments, I gave up.

To give just one example from those first two chapters of his dishonesty, according to the book jacket, "the 'gay rights' movement -- which transformed America's former view of homosexuals as self-destructive human beings into their current status as victims and cultural heroes -- faithfully followed an in-depth, phased plan laid out by professional Harvard-trained marketers." I was wondering who these Ivy League masterminds were who laid out their plans in the 60's to orchestrate the Stonewall Riots along with the numerous other pivotal events at that time that inaugurated the change in attitudes towards homosexuals. It turns out he's referring to the book "After the Ball", which was written in 1989, over 20 years after the gay rights movement began. Aside from the unreasonability of blaming a movement on a book that was published decades after the movement began, there's no reason to think that more than a handful of people have paid much attention to that book. Its authors are hardly masterminding a conspiracy to promote homosexuality, though I'll admit their wish to take advantage of compassion for AIDS victims is cynical.

In short, the basic thesis, that our media, schools and other cultural guardians are promoting immorality, is correct, but Kupelian is an inept defender of it.

Kupelian knows of what he speaks. Straight forward and factual this book covers many facets of the snow job we are being sold in America via the courts and the media. A great guide on how to answer objections to the liberal left's agenda.

As a parent of five children and very concerned about their future in America I found this book to be very thorough in what is happening to our culture. I found David Kupelian did an excellent job in untangling every topic. I found myself very stressed out after reading each chapter because it is so thought provoking and actually disturbing to have the truth presented in such a way. I would highly recommend this book.

I have a taken a strong interest in immoral predatory capitalism and the cheating culture (see my reviews of Grieder "The Soul of Capitalism" and Callahan, "The Cheating Culture," among others) so when I saw this title, I was not only reminded of Lionel Tiger's path-finding work, "The Manufacture of Evil," but also quite taken by the sub-title.

The book loses one star because it is an evangelical Christian tract that lacks depth (each of 10 chapters on 10 evils appears based on 1-2 key sources, with some "ibids" running over ten times in a row), and it is oblivious to a much larger serious literature such as Shattuck's "Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography," which makes this book look like a high school rant, or John Paul Ralston's "Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West."

There is a lot of good in the book, and it fully merits reading and reflection. Seen in its best light, the author has brilliantly compiled "conventional wisdom" within the hard-corps Christian right, and neatly packaged screeds against gay rights, church-state separation, violence, sex, multicultural madness (i.e. mixed marriages and the loss of the white majority), family meltdown, bad schools, media as myth, abortion, and of course white American Christianity as the last best hope for America.

In comparison with Thomas Frank's "One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy, this book is both lightweight and oblivious to larger strategic realities, but it is never-the-less quite a good means of understanding the filter through which white Christians on the hard right see the world.

The author loses credibility with well-read readers when he lambastes the gays and ignores biological evidence that we all start as women and evolve toward being men in the womb. Those that make it three quarters of the way are gay men; those that make it one quarter of the way are gay women. That is of course of grotesque simplification of a complex scientific and medical literature, but the point is that being gay is biological, and we can no more prosecute gays that we can prosecute people with diabetes or cancer.

The author is also overly dependent on the extreme right and evangelical Christian literature, and much too quick to accept "statistics" that are articulated as facts, for example, that 45% of America attends church regularly. Not in my world. In my world, they are sleeping late, out driving their Harleys (in Middle America nice normal people drive Harleys, not gangs), playing golf, or mowing the lawn.

The greatest weakness of the book, but not sufficient to take it down to three stars, is that while the author rails against radicals, elitists, and pseudo-experts, he fails to identify them by name. This is the politics of fear, the politics of creating a boogey-man to blame our problems on. To really understand this weakness, see the other book I review today, Frank's "One Market Under God" where I detail that author's more compelling and more authoritative discussion of how Wall Street and the evangelical right came together to destroy labor unions, baseline government, and informed media, all in the name of a "free market" that ostensibly promotes democracy in passing.

Of the two books, Frank's is the better value, and receives five stars.

The book reveals the inherent purpose of those undermining our original forefathers intention for one nation under God.

Easy reading and thought provoking.

Many books have chronicled the downward spiral of Western culture. This book explains the hows and whys of this decline. It is about how evil is "packaged and perfumed to look good - and good made to appear evil".

The decline, in other words, is not just happening by chance. It is being planned, orchestrated and coordinated by vested interests. There is money to be made in evil. And many groups are getting involved in the marketing of evil, in the attempt to get rich quick.

But it is not just about money. There is also ideology. There are many who simply hate the West, who hate morality, who hate God, who hate the family. And they are doing all they can to subvert the West and recreate it in their own mage.

Kupelian documents these nefarious trends, and shows us why evil seems to be making advances throughout the Western world. He makes it clear that with such activist marketing of evil taking place, a much stronger response is required than is presently being offered.

Now those who are familiar with the culture wars will not find too much new material here, as much of it has been presented elsewhere. But the angle which the author takes is well worth considering. That is, there is an agenda being pushed, and there are those actively working to foist their tarnished vision of society on the rest of us.

It is this emphasis that makes this book compelling reading. We need to know who is targeting us and why. And Kupelian does a good job of identifying and analyzing the many assaults on faith and family.

Consider one chapter, on the youth culture. We do not just have millions of young people who seem to have all descended upon common clothing, entertainment, and consumer culture. They have been carefully studied, marketed to and manipulated by vast entertainment conglomerations. These international corporations are making multi-millions by actively targeting our young people, creating in them a demand for their products.

Take just one small example. Are we really to believe that overnight millions of teens decided they wanted to mutilate their flesh with body piercing? Hardly. Kids are being sold the idea that such things are cool, and they need to have the `look'. They are being programmed - duped into thinking - that they must go to such extremes to be with it. And big bucks are being made along the way.

Peer pressure has always had an enormous influence on young people, but when the pressure is effectively created and manipulated by multinational corporations lining their pockets, then the pressure becomes a form of brainwashing. And millions of our kids today are little more than walking, talking zombies, slavishly following the latest trends and fashions created by these big firms.

Other meaty chapters in this book deal with the media, the abortion industry, the sexualization of our young people, the assault on marriage, and the secularist attempt to de-Christianize America.

While the topics discussed here are in the context of the US, they are of relevance to the West in general. There is a war going on, and the marketers of evil seems to be making big inroads. Being aware of their strategy and tactics is an important part of how we can resist these attacks. Thus this book provides valuable information on how we can turn things around.

And as Kupelian reminds us, every transaction has two parties: a buyer and a seller. While this book mainly focuses on the sellers and advertisers of evil, he reminds us that too many of us have been willing buyers of these transactions, or have been complicit bystanders.

The marketing of evil has been a monumental con job, but too many of us have been too easily taken in by the lure and promise of the marketers. We have become bewitched by the spells and persuasion of the marketers, and have done too little to immunize our children from the lure of evil.

This book will go a long way to snapping us out of our trances, and getting us to think more seriously about how we are being manipulated, molded and seduced by various vested interest groups.

I'm going to recommend David Kupelian's book with 5 stars! While not quite as ground-breaking as other books on this topic, the book does manage to highlight several alarming trends in this country that are, well, very alarming. That's not to say that the book is void of logic or thoughtful analyses, because it's not. However, it's written for a broad audience (which means its a bit easier to read) and serves to inform the American public about a world where traditional morals and ideals have been hijacked and turned into bywords before our very eyes.

A few weeks ago I read an excerpt of this book that talked about the homosexual agenda for America. The Marketing of Evil starts there, and then begins to highlight some of the other problems in the country that conservatives find so appalling. For example, some of the chapters include: The Myth of Church-State Separation; Multicultural Madness (How Western Culture was Turned Upside Down in a Generation); The Campaign to Destroy Marriage; Obsessed with Sex (How Fraudulent Science Unleashed a Catastrophic Revolution); The Media Matrix (What We Think is Real); and finally, How Lying Marketers Sold America on Unrestricted Abortion.

I went into this book somewhat skeptical, thinking I wouldn't learn anything I didn't already know. Not so. The book, while sometimes preachy (a lot of Bible references), really punched me between the eyes. As I told a friend, it's virtually a laundry list of "secret combinations," or, large schemes taking place behind the scenes that serve to rob makind of their liberty through greed, lust or power. Having said that, let me point out that this book isn't tabloid. Yes, it's alarming (as I mentioned), but it's alarming in a way that should serve to wake up the conservative middle class (if only they could get their minds around some of the lies that are being spread in this country via the media). The best comparison I can think of for this book would be something by Rush Limbaugh. In that, I mean that the author takes the liberty of making anecdotal assertions sometimes without stating all of the facts. Just because I agree with what he's saying, doesn't mean I don't want to know how the information being conveyed stacks up against a counter-point. However, the author does back up most of his examples with hard facts.

Upon finishing it, I feel that this book has changed the way I view the world in many respects (specifically with regards to the media, abortion and the gay rights agenda). I also found that I came away with new zeal and passion for the conservative cause. My eyes feel opened anew, and Mr. Kupelian's articulate description of the modern ideological plagues that face this nation really struck a chord with me. You'll finish this book in a day or two, easily.

The only part I have disagreement on this book is Kuplian's interpretation of the Israel-Palestinian Middle East conflict, but for the rest of the book it's out of the ball park. Kuplian's book connects very well with David Livingston's book The Dying God: The Hidden History of Western Civilization. That is... if you want know what is really behind what David Kuplian wrote about. Much has being said and written, but what is behing all of this that David Kuplian has written about?
well,Livingston shows that the post modern-liberal- progressive-secular culture is really a product of an occult (Mystery School, Kabbalistic)tradition, that can all be trace to secret socities today. The occultist inspired the so-called Enlightment, which defines modern culture,adopted Lucifer as symbol of mankind's rebellion against God; It is the Theosophist esoteric Philosophical definition of Lucifer as a symbol of casting off the overlord (God),(Emancipate and Liberate mankind from an opressing Judeo-Christian God'... thanks to Satan the Liberator) and trusting the light from within it is a concept of breaking out of the subservient shell of "God's Dominion and claiming yourself as one's own. (this from:Crowley's Book of the Law)
Luciferian "spirituality" doesn't rely on stripping man of his nature, but rather embraces his (fallin',currupted, the beauty ruined)nature and his potential (godhood).
The significance of David Kuplian and David Livingston's well documented books are enormous. It implies that a dominant segment of political and cultural elites secretly serve Lucifer;(look at the Bohemian Grove,Skull and Bones politicians and cultural elites worship of the owl Molech a.k.a. Satan) as the god of the modern world; their sinister and corrupt influence is evident everywhere.
The people who are pushing products, drugs, violence, and sex are not operating on a random "whatever sell" basis. The Top players are following a script designed to enslave humanity, body and soul, they are building a gigantic prison based mental debauchery. THIS is THE NEW WORLD ORDER; we are the inmates.
This conspiracy real aims is to subvert society, the world for that matter, and succeeds only because people cannot believe something so colossal and monstrous actually exists, but the end resulting evidence is before our eyes, yes we are in a world at war between good and evil, what is contested is the human soul, and whoever wins your mind gets to have all of you.

The Marketing of Evil is an excellent expose on how evil has been marketed toward a truth loving people and how those who have marketed this evil have succeeded in slowly infiltrating even those who are very moral.

The chapter on abortion should be required reading for all persons considering the "pro-choice" stance, and should be plastered near every abortion clinic, hospital and Planned Parenthood in the country.

David Kupelian's logic regarding marriage was a highlight of the book. I also appreciated his willingness to expose how evil ideologies and practices have crept into religion, as well.

I am buying 20 copies to have on hand to give to liberal friends or anyone who has questions regarding media, current political issues, or abortion.

The Marketing of Evil is a book written by and for a very specific type of person. If you have the same beliefs as the author I believe this book will motivate you. If you do not share the beliefs of the author, this book will probably not persuade you to come over to his "side" and might very well offend you.

I think it is always worthwhile to listen to all sides of an argument, and the side represented in this book is that of a far right, religious conservative. What most people would refer to as the "religious right."

I thought the author did a poor job of arguing his points in this book. Example: Author's point: Christianity is under attack. Yes, a case could be made for this. But, then the author will go on to describe some Christian churches where people drink poison or each other's spit...Now, there are no statistcs provided documenting how many churches really condone this behavior, but the author is trying to pass this off as one example of how things are falling apart with Christianity. For me, it takes a valid point (Christianity under attack) and distracts the reader with really weird discussion of some people who's behavior is so odd that it really doesn't deserve discussion. This goes on thru the whole book with different topics. Valid point...then really weird examples to back it up...but a lack of statistics or cited sources for the information.

The final chapter is absolutely out of control with the author presuming that the only "real Christians" are Catholics and fundamentalist Christians. The author is very judgemental. Besides the judging of people who belong to the "mainline religions", the other chapter that will probably be the most offensive is the one on homosexuality. These were the chapters that I did not care for at all.

I do agree with the author on several points about separation of church and state, Christianity under attack, abortion, sexual revolution, marketing of raunchy things to kids, etc, but I personally did not think the author was very good at arguing these points. I have read much more convincing books. I'd recommend something like the Politically Incorrect Guides-which talk about many of the same topics but in a much more convincing way. This book was just too indulgent for me. If you have good statistics and facts to back up your claims, they speak for themselves, you won't need to draw on sensational, weird, and rare examples to prove your points.

This book offers a perspective on the current American culture that will make you think a little deeper about WHY you believe what you believe. It might make you wonder if you SHOULD continue to believe it or do more research. It offers references to other books, speeches and televised interviews as support for the perspective on the culture that it is prsenting. It is a good statrting point for those who question the information presented to Americans via the media. An interesteing book.

Elite interests are aggressively colonizing the minds of our children. This book covers some of their strategies, but not as thoroughly as Juliet Schor's "Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture." That book does a better job of revealing the multibillion-dollar marketing effort to turn kids into oversexed, status-obsessed consumers. To get kids, and adults, hooked on various bread and circuses (like pro sports fanaticism) makes it easier for Big Business to continue their takeover of the country.
For people who don't have time for a lot of reading, the DVD "The Merchants of Cool" covers much of the same sort of material. And if you want your kids to start thinking critically about their media diet, subscribe them to journals like New Moon, Teen Voices, and Adbusters; and get yourselves a subscription to Mothering Magazine and a copy of the DVD "The Corporation."
There are also good organizations working on these issues, like Commercial Alert.

This book does an outstanding job of unmasking the behind the scences machinations that are working to tempt, sell, and market evil to our culture. Sadly it seems a majority of this marketing is to our children.

Especially important is the last chapter, written to the Christian Church. Kupelian lays out how the Church has fallen prey as well to the temptation to compromise with evil.

If you're going to read one book on cultural and moral issues this year--read this one.

Is why the moral majority or cultural conservatives don't seem to get that capitalism is designed to slash and burn traditions. Their allegiance to Capital entails a self contradiction the Republican Party for one thing worries about.

When I heard about the OSU college professor feeling unsafe and personally threatened by the prospect of someone reading The Marketing of Evil, curiosity got the better of me. Judging by the reviews here, the book obviously has some learned, thoughtful, and articulate readership. I was moved enough myself by the book to try and add my two cents worth.

First, I'm very impressed with how well written and edited the book is. Most non-fiction that is any good might make a worthwhile point every few pages. With this book, it's more like every couple of sentences. It's short and easy reading, but fully packed. And not one of the topics raised is a puff piece. Each is big, really big, and poignant to today's society. The author discusses ten issues, one per chapter, and I expect any one of them dropped among a random group of people could start a heated argument in about 15 seconds. You can't do a "search inside the book" so here's the 10 topics/chapters:

Gay rights
Myth of church-state separation
Selling of sex
The 60's generation
Destruction of marriage
Sexual revolution based on fraudulent science
Hijacking of American school system
World of illusion created by press
Selling of unrestricted abortion
Role of Christianity in America

Like I said, heavy-duty stuff. And the author addresses each topic head-on without sarcasm, hyperbole, or sensationalism. He is also very consistent to his theme, i.e., how the radical elements within our society have successfully, and with intent, marketed their particular view to the rest of us. To those that doubt the author's premise, all I can say is I was in college in the 60s and the evidence presented seems right on target to me. And if you don't believe it, then read the admissions of the very people doing the marketing in question. Do some fact checking. Read some of the source material. It is eye popping, depressing, and maybe even scary.

The book is not up lifting, nor intended to be. Reading it is like turning on a bright light in a smelly flophouse. We had a good idea the roaches were in there, but we'd rather let someone else deal with it. (Unfortunately, there's no one else living here but us).

It seems the book's first chapter, gay rights, gets most of the attention from detractors. None of the other chapters are any less weighty or volatile. It's not a book about the evil of gay rights, it's a book about successful marketing. There is much irony here for both the left and the right. The radical left, the avowed enemies of Wal-Mart, capitalism, Christianity, traditional morality, etc. make use of the very tools of the society they condemn, and very much to their personal profit. Meanwhile, those on the right have allowed themselves to be sucked into the moral abyss by the very same tools they hold in such high regard. Nothing to be proud of. It's terribly sobering and thought provoking. That the book might be recommended reading for an incoming freshmen class is the height of sanity to me, definitely not something to be condemned and investigated.

I also find interesting how unenthusiastic and ineffective the negative reviewers are for this book. When Al Franken or Ann Coulter write a book, we can count on the negative reviewers getting in some good shots and collecting a reasonable momentum of fellow reviewers. Not so with The Marketing of Evil. Why not? A couple of reasons, I think. First, the author treats each subject and his readers with deep respect. There is no attempt at humor or provocation. He just presents his evidence in a professional and effective manner. Second, the evidence results in a pretty much iron clad case. Detractors just come off looking petty and infantile. The best recourse for those on the left is to not draw attention to this book.

I have a better understanding why the college prof acted the way he did. The act of people reading this book could very well be a threat to your worldview because there is almost no defense against the enlightenment contained. The radical left worldview is built on such an illogical house of cards, the prospect of removing just one (let alone 10!) could indeed be terrifying. All you can do is scurry under the refrigerator or flip on your back and waggle your arms and legs in a fit of mortal hysteria.

Finally, no matter what the subject, I really appreciate books that are well written, succinct, and cut through the fog of muddled, conventional dogma with sincerity and honesty. There are so few! (In the last year I've only come across two ... this one, and Hunicutt's Joe X). Yes, The Marketing of Evil may be a bit of a downer (though the last chapter is a good counter balance), but it's also highly clarifying. It's an outstanding book, and an important one to read.

I won't repeat all the summaries and analyses of other positive reviewers -- I agree with them.

I gave a copy of this book to my son and one of his friends. They just finished 8th grade and are heading into high school next year. The book is very timely for them and will be helpful as they face the full onslaught of marketing and propoganda aimed at that age group.

I wish David Kupelian would publish a "second edition" with more end notes. I know about many topics in the book, and I didn't spot any factual errors, but it would be helpful to have references to back up his assertions.

It's interesting to me to read the negative "one-star" reviews of people who say that this book is a continuous stream of lies from cover to cover. I'd like to have such a person as a friend, meet them for breakfast once a week, and discuss the points of disagreement one by one, with the goal of stimulating each other to think and discover real truth, rather than of winning an argument. Unfortunately, very few people even have time for something like that or are willing to discuss their core beliefs openly with someone with a very different view. Perhaps I should start a "Philosophy Club Coffee Shop" to attract such folks! :) I could have three or four "discussion" tables, each with a signed topic and a volunteer moderator (preferably someone with a logic course or two under ther belt), and rotate the topics through a weekly cycle. Hmmm -- I bet I'd go broke.

Mr. Kupelian has put into words what the true vast majority of American feel and are hesitant to say out loud because of the thought and free speech police.

It is wonderful that he has so completely exposed what "We The People" have been hearing, seeing and feeling as we sit in our living rooms watching a biased media, advertisement and intertainment industry lost to evil.

Those who support the evil will hate him and the truth within these pages (just like the small boy in Narnia was hoodwinked at first and refused to believe the truth) and those who see the evil for what it really is will applaud his honesty and bravery for telling it like it is.

Of course truth is easy to find, but one must be looking for it now adays to find and receive it. So many people have been brainwashed into believing evil is good and nothing you do will cause them to turn from their deviant ways and accept enlightenment.

Great job to David Kupelian.

This is the kind of book that will send your average leftie into a mouth-foaming frenzy. Another conservative death-blow to the culture of death. This is a writer who understands our historical, cultural and spiritual roots. He exposes chapter and verse how posers, imposters and liars have systematically tried to substitute their own frauds and silence opposition with rhetoric like "racist, homophobe and sexist..." blah blah blah. We are indeed being sold corruption disguised as freedom. Packed with facts and research you will NEVER find in the NY Times and its assorted allies this book is both a sword and a shield in the culture war. If you know you are being lied to and want to arm yourself for the long fight ahead, this is a great place to start.

Are you people really so lost and gullable that you actually believe this book was written out of compassion for other humans? You actually think homosexuals have it in for your children and that grown women who get abortions are all self serving whores - and that this is all a secret plot by inventive marketers to fool you because they want gay rights?????? Why are your hearts filled with such hatred? Where does this lunacy come from?

Despite such glowing reviews by the likes of Dr. Laura, this book teaches us to look at other humans with disdain and promotes ignorance and division at a time when we are supposed to be "spreading freedom" around the world. This book if FILLED WITH ABSOLUTE LIES from cover to cover and has been written by a man with clear mental issues. If this country were run by the author of this drivel, we would go the way of the Taliban - and I am stunned that there are over 100 grown adults who are so lost and empty that they actually buy into this tripe.

You should be ashamed of yourselves.

As I skipped around and read different chapters (specifically the one on Abortion), and though I have been well aware of abortion since my youth, the TRUTH about the HORROR of this choice from the mouths of former abortion providers still brought tears to my eyes and an ache to my heart. I actually tossed the book away after this chapter. But, I had to pick it up again and continue.

As I discussed "choice" with a dear co-worker, she was UNAWARE of the truth about Roe vs. Wade: that we are guaranteed the right to abortion thru the 9th month. In one room, the woman, at 38 weeks pregnant, can have her child ripped from her womb and discarded in a bucket and in the next room, a woman embraces her child born at 38 weeks.

How is it that the Lacy Peterson murder was considered a double murder? Why is it that PETA is not anti-abortion? PETA would be all over you if you treated dogs, cats or pigs in the same manner. The have elevated animals to an exhalted postion. PETA, at its core, does not seperate us from the rat or the dog-we are the same.

I challenge everyone to read this book....no, I Dare you. A Must Read.

As I skipped around and read different chapters (specifically the one on Abortion), and though I have been well aware of abortion since my youth, the TRUTH about the HORROR of this choice from the mouths of former abortion providers still brought tears to my eyes and an ache to my heart. I actually tossed the book away after this chapter. But, I had to pick it up again and continue.

As I discussed "choice" with a dear co-worker, she was UNAWARE of the truth about Roe vs. Wade: that we are guaranteed the right to abortion thru the 9th month. In one room, the woman, at 38 weeks pregnant, can have her child ripped from her womb and discarded in a bucket and in the next room, a woman embraces child born at 38 weeks.

How is it that the Lacy Peterson murder was considered a double murder? Why is it that PETA is not anti-abortion? PETA would be all over you if you treated dogs, cats or pigs in the same manner. The have elevated animals to an exhalted postion. PETA, at its core, does not seperate us from the rat or the dog-we are the same.

I challenge everyone to read this book....no, I Dare you. A Must Read.

While reading this book, it was like a trusted grownup turned on the lights in the dark room where scary shadows lurked. It is refreshing to find a book that discards all the post-modern dogmas of "tolerance" and "diversity", and instead reminds us that there was a time (and it can be that way again) when children's innocence was to be protected at all costs, and the nuclear family was the basic building block that formed our nation.

It is a must-read for parents who want to know what they're up against, and a must-read for teenagers who need to know how they're being thoroughly manipulated by commercial, political, and social causes who want them dumbed-down & pacified.

This book is full of outright distortions re:

1. Margaret Sanger and abortion - falsely attributed quotes, non-sequitir arguments, and disingenuous distortions.

2. The "gay rights" movement - see above

3. The "father" of the sexual revolution - um, see above.

Geez, people - do your own research. That is unless you really enjoy reading books that already align perfectly with your skewed worldview. The author wrote this book with a goal in mind - propagandizing and disseminating long discredited myths and ostensibly doing so in the form of some grand revelation of deep, dark secrets. Get real.

Yawn - sorry, we know who wages the real propaganda campaigns with fake commercials, AM Radio, The K Street Project, Fox News, Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, "think tanks",books like this one and the tripe David Horowitz types up, etc.

In any case, I get the feeling that this author is preaching to the choir, and they've all got kool aid stained lips.

I read Kupelian's book and I limit my comments here to the chapter on the gay rights movement. It's a compeling argument: He strings together a a series of documented events that show how we have been manipulated by desensitization, jamming and conversion tricks to the point where homosexuality is accepted as a mainstream force.
It's interesting that in all of the comments here and elsewhere by those who oppose him, where are the point-by-point rebuttals? All I read is a bunch of shrill name calling and dismissive one-liners. Is he wrong? Prove it! Are his facts inaccurate? Prove it! (deafening silence..) Hmmm...seems to me Kupelian may be on to something here and those who bash him or his book are left exposed as guilty of the very things he asserts.

I read Kupelian's book and I limit this comments here to the chapter on the gay rights movement. He strings together a series of documented events that present a compelling argument about how the gay rights movement was engineered into the acceptance of homosexuality as a mainstream force. Yet in all of the comments here and elsewhere by those who oppose him, where are the point-by-point rebuttals? All I read is a bunch of shrill name calling and dismissive one-liners. Is he wrong? Prove it! Are his facts inaccurate? Prove it! (deafening silence..) Hmmm...seems to me Kupelian may be on to something here and those who bash him or his book are left exposed as guilty of the very things he asserts.

This is perhaps the best and most freeing book I have ever read on the popular culture at large. It rings true at every level, and has changed the way I view things in the most freeing and encouraging way!! I cannot recommend it enough. An absolute masterpiece!!

First off, I am a Marketing major and decided to read the book because of this. David Kupelian does not speculate or let his views get in the way. He has extensive notes and bibliography in the back of the book for the doubter(s) of his research. He has many experts in the particular field that he talks about in each chapter. Whether it be abortion, sex ed, homosexuality or Christianity. Now onto the book. (Note this book is not for the weak of heart.)

The book is excellent that is the easiest way to put it. There were three chapters that stuck with me. The first being the chapter on sex. This chapter had some eye-opening facts that were clearly articulated and well researched. He shows that Alfred Kinsey conducted skewed "studies" that met the research that he wanted. Kinsey is regarded by many as the "Father of Sex Education". Kupelian shows the truth of Kinsey's "studies" and how his "studies" were wrong. Kinsey used known pedophiles, homosexuals, and prisoners to get the results he wanted.

The next chapter was abortion. He actually tells the story of the father of the abortion movement and how this man lied about his statistics to the media. The man later in life changed his view on abortion and has become a pro-life activist. Kupelian tells the different types of abortion that are sure to disgust and sadden the reader. I see no way that people can conduct this procedure and feel nothing. Kupelian also points out that many of the docs and clinics are in it for the money. Abortion clinics are paid in cash and Kupelian tells why. This chapter had the biggest affect on me because there is no way to imagine this actually happens daily in our country.

The last chapter tells how the Christian community has abandoned its principles. Kupelian does not like the way Christian culture matches secular culture. He states that the only difference is Christian are "saved". This chapter can offend like the others, but it means more here because we need to take action. I know for a long time I have stood by ideally while all the things have taken place. I have even participated in some of the things he says in the book. This book will hit you in the gut and give you a wake-up call.

It is sad as Kupelian would say that we as Americans have abandoned our founding principles. We need to step up and lead the nation not follow. I believe this book will open your eyes to the horrible truths that go on in the country and make you a better person for reading it.

Reading this savage attack on moral relativism in American culture, one might be tempted to think Mr. Kupelian exaggerates. As far as I can tell, he does not. For instance, his description of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger as " ... the racist eugenicist ... who preached the inferiority of nonwhite races and had close ties to Hitler's director of genetic sterilization, Ernst Rudin." sounds implausible, but it's true. Again, his nauseating descriptions of Alfred Kinsey's behavior, though incredible, only scratch the surface of the man's depravity. The author believes Americans have been lulled to sleep by marketers of evil; that is, a group of cultural elites who seek to replace traditional American values with an "anything-goes" morality. What is interesting-and frightening-about this book is not the suggestion that these "marketers" exist, but that they are so highly organized. Kupelian reveals, quite convincingly, how the leaders of various cultural movements are shamelessly exploiting us, misusing sophisticated marketing strategies and tactics to manipulate our thinking and turn morality upside down. Moreover, the author demonstrates how these marketing campaigns are often motivated not by (misguided) idealistic fervor, but by good, old-fashioned lust for money and power: Planned Parenthood, for example, makes millions off abortion procedures; the music and fashion industries make mega millions off the children they seduce into buying their products; free and easy divorce laws give government bureaucrats social and economic control over broken families.

The book is not all shock therapy. As a matter of fact, I found the softer passages incredibly moving. Kupelian's deeply personal reflections on patriotism, America's welcoming spirit toward immigrants, and our dwindling sense of our nation's great history, brought a tear to my eye. The reminiscences of former abortion doctors he presents are absolutely heart rending. Whether Kupelian is trying to terrify us or inspire us, his book is not pleasant reading. For that reason, I think it's worth reading.

Awesome... Eye opening. I've been arguing for years that Christians need to stand up and fight for their rights. This country was born out of Christian ideas and morals, yet we've let every special interest group whittle away at our morals while we've done nothing to prevent it. This book should be required reading for all Congressmen and Judges. WAKE UP America

If you really want to know the truth...read this book. It's fair, balanced, sane, and it's the truth. If you claim to be open-minded and tolerant, then you'll read it and consider it. It makes sense and is one of the best books ever written.

If you are still reading reviews, trying to decide whether to buy this book, rest assured your money will be well spent. David Kupelian has meticulously dismantled all vestiges of human reasoning behind widespread acceptance of contemporary societal mores. His comprehensive research has left no room for contradiction, and the substance of his writings is quite unassailable. If you are unconvinced that homosexuality, abortion, secularism and diversity are perfectly acceptable, then this book is for you. Any upstanding American with a smidgen of morality and conservatism will feel comfortable with the knowledge that "The Marketing of Evil" will positively affect the lives of all who read it. Share it. Read it again.

Timothy D. Janca
Victoria, Texas

Reading this book was so liberating. Every page I read seemed to undo years of brainwashing from the liberal media and government school system that I didn't even realize was there! I appreciated how Kupelian speaks the TRUTH (that our consciense bears witness to) in a loving way. He presents the facts that allow you to stop being codependent to the liberal agenda, but at the same time motivate you to be accountable for yourself.
Both my husband and I read the book and have since decided to homeschoool our 1 year old daughter. Not out of fear- but out of the fact that WE CAN! That is freedom- to realize what has been fettering you is a big lie.

I am especially delighted that this book seeks to help the homosexual culture take a deeper look at thier lifestyles and the propoganda lended to normalize this disorder of nature.Mr. Kupelians display of charity towards these misguided people deserves applauding as well as his defence of life and morality in general.Buy it for your friends and relatives especially those that are active homosexuals.

David Kupelian exposes among other things, how and why our young people have adopted the Way of The Left, that is the inherent "rights" to free sex and drugs with no responsibiities. As long as The Left can continue exercising their most dearly held freedoms of doing it with anyone of any age, of either sex and at anytime, and of unrestricted drug use and the promotion of these "rights" through music, TV, movies and our public schools, of course they will condemn Kupelian's book and all attempts to curb them or even to explain their behavior.

This is a Must Read for anyone wondering why their kids are going down.

The notion that the virtue and wisdom of the people have somehow been insidiously subverted by a few Eeeevil Corporations is generally associated with the loony left, but it has its adherents on the right as well. The book papers over, but never addresses the fundamental problem with this notion -- how do the mysterious Illuminati cause people to accept their ideas if they are so utterly foreign to the people's beliefs?

If the "Marketers of Evil" really have the mystical powers ascribed to them in this book, I have a modest proposal -- you whip up an ad campaign to convince Islamic radicals to start waving American flags and making friends with the Jews, and we'll let bygones by bygones on that whole business of converting America from Godly Righteousness to The New Babylon.

What is amazing is how many people manage to read the things that agree with their own flawed perspectives, and UTTERLY AVOID those things which they find offensive or disagreeable. Please, do not read this book, and remain blissfully ignorant.

A woman on English television recently stated she didn't think two homosexual men should be able to adopt a boy. She added the fact that we wouldn't let two heterosexual men adopt a girl as a logical buffer for her argument.
She was held after the show by POLICE for investigation to see if her remarks amounted to "hate speech."
We will have this socialist police state here soon. Soon perhaps we can only walk down the street whispering to a friend, because if someone overhears your opinion you might be in for jail? Re-education? Loss of job? WE NEED MORE PEOPLE READING AND WRITING BOOKS LIKE THIS!
It is ONLY THE LEFT WING that seeks to control thought and speech of the population.
To say, as other reviewers do, that there is a moral equivalent between conservative and liberal just doesn't take into account the fact that the "right" wants LESS GOVERNMENT, and the LEFT (with their bulging, boasting egoism) wants the government into EVERYTHING..

I wish there were more to this book. David Kupelian targets a vital point about a very modern day issue: the utter extremism and one-sidedness of so many differing contemporary viewpoints, and yet he becomes merely more of the same, one of our own by championing a rather rigidly defined idea of morality. Many of the points Kupelian makes are valid--true, even, one supposes when realizing the hypocrisy of any given choice of personal movement, be it political, individual, criminal or Divine. Yes, the ultimately petty and impossible attempts of tolerence imposed by actual 'special interest groups' on topics crossing the media, burecratic political issues involving intra-budgetary tax credits on denouncing the nature of 'cronism' in military debates to the cold thought control implied by changes in 'acceptable public language'. People who think of a world existing in this way are deluded in fantsia by the somehow urgent need for absolute public acceptence. The man preaching here on certain topics is a goldmine of profundity and a man clearly just fed up with the snivelling, pretentious rabble who interrupted his own and now his children's baccalariet life with demands to be seen AND to be heard.

Now, the real issue here crosses all perspectives, far right to far left and every other absolutist gargle that criss-crosses between. Our author, sadly, appears to see flaws merely in the few and rants on and on and on like dialogue out of some reactionary right-wing college documentary aiming to viciously expose the posturing and perversion of 'certain types'. The Damicliean sword dangles beyond a few specks and threatens the whole wide world and by leaving out his own sense of single-mindedness. He dooms this text to yet another partisan rant, just another smugly self-satisfied piece of dreck out of the mouth of a morally self-righteous prig (possibly even a closet liberal so deeply suppressing his urges that they came out the other side in the equal and opposite extreme). The right has demons in exactly the same shape, preaching exactly the same apocalyptic nonsense, and it is time that more people with a sincerely doubting frame of mind (no doubt a number of them both agreeing and disagreeing with whatever it was that I've had to say) stood up and denounced this petty, festering slime, the gospels on the right, on the left, of the Holy and the Damned, all of it garbage, all of it no longer provoking, now only corroding the indepentant mind the idea of America once was meant to stand for. Is this generation's democracy really the one we should be importing elsewhere in the world?

All the venom, derogatory labels, and namecalling by the "one star" crowd put this book right into my cart. Thanks "one stars" for tipping me off to another wonderful read.

When I first heard about this book I had no intention of reading it. It seemed like propaganda to me. But seeing these knee-jerk negative reviews made me ask "Why do people feel threated by this book?"

Within the pages of "The Marketing of Evil" Mr. Kupelian presents a strong case that America has been convinced to embrace certains "rights and freedoms" that are nothing more than the selfish desires of a relatively small minority. He presents footnoted facts to back up his viewpoint.

And it's a great read!

I would encourage my fellow Americans to take a chance and read this book. Then draw you own conclusion.

Great! A book on the evils of the free market by those who worship at the alter of the free market. 17 magazine bad ...Exxon Mobile good. Very funny read. I strongly suggest this book for those with conflicted ideologies that need further warping.

Finally someone who tells it like it is and is not being persuaded by the liberal biases that are the mainstream press. Kudos. Its the truth that needs to be told.

David Kupelian expertly illuminates what is hidden from view, with stunning documentation, clarity and focus. Everyone should read this seminal work and share it widely. If you ever noticed our culture being mired in everything antithetical to what is beautiful, good and true, or wondered *how* it got so BAD, so FAST, this book shows you exactly "how." Kupelian identifies the cultural puppeteers who drive and manipulate an unwitting public, and will free you, forever, from their strings.

This book would have you believe that it is champion of moral values, when in fact it perverts and denounces them. Our country was founded on the escape of persecution, and the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To protect these basic values, we have the Bill of Rights. What the author suggests (discrimination against various groups and mass censorship) blatantly disregards the constitution and claims only his views are "American" and "morally just". What could be more American than the Constitution?

This author is one of the most hypocritical people I've had the misfortune to run across. His statement is that radicals are evil. Alright. But, he supports anti-gay, anti-abortion, and censorship campaigns. Causes often associated with the RADICAL Right. Do that not make him also evil? I strongly suggest that no one read this tripe.