Ann Coulter's 2006 book Godless: The Church of Liberalism makes the connection between liberalism and atheism, arguing that to its adherents, liberalism holds every single characteristic of a religion: an atheistic one. She maintains that, The popular novelist Michael Crichton makes much the same point as Coulter: * "Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western world is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists."