CONFRONTING RELIGIOUS FANATICISM
CRF tells the story of Ira and the fanatic fringes of Western Religion. I AM OFFERING ANYONE INTERESTED A PDF OF THE FIRST 175 PAGES, SUBTITLED AN EYE FOR AN EYE.
This PDF focuses on Rebecca, a young woman caught between the religious roots of the family's orthodoxy and the man she loves, an atheist. After choosing her lover rather than the son of the family's Rabbi, she is driven into her own hell by the revengeful Rabbi. This is the same Rabbi who claims to have the ear of God and who in fact is the mastermind manipulator behind her guilt in this explosive triangle overrun with sexual indiscretions, secrets, and retribution; and it has its own ending apart from the rest of this overall story.
If you are interested, let me know. If you want the other installments, I will send them to you. You will find a brief synopsis of the entire manuscript below.
Any questions? Email me.
Steve Shear
steveshear@gmail.com
www.steveshear.net
Synopsis
CRF utilizes three sections and first-person accounts to describe the journey of Ira Neebest from birth until he returns from the jungles of India after being kidnapped by ISIS and the Iranian Ayatollah for writing a Nobel Prize winning novel about the evils of religious orthodoxy (Ira Neebest and The First Coming). On this journey we learn about Rebecca, Ira's mother, who is constantly doing battle with guilt driving forces in her own Hasidic background (An Eye for an Eye). And we love Natalie, Ira's wife, who as a child is abandoned by her parents at a Catholic boarding school. She is raped not once but twice by a priest with a rotting black heart, putrid breath, and wandering hands and is subsequently accused of bludgeoning him to death. As an adult, she is used by the Iranians to capture Ira and winds up in a coma (Break Hearts & Hungry Bears).
