Steve Shear

Confronting Religious Fanaticism Book Three Ira Neebest and The First Coming Steve Shear

Confronting Religious Fanaticism (A triadic NOVELization exploring the orthodoxic ills in Western Religions) utilizes three distinct parts in which first-person accounts 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). All of this between the covers of a mere three manuscripts!Confronting Religious Fanaticism is all about the reader seeing firsthand how religious fanaticism can affect individuals and families and while it starts with Book One: An Eye for an Eye, and Rebecca, Ira's mother, it ends with Book Three: Ira Neebest and The First Coming. That's when we watch Ira grow into manhood and pen his "Great Manifesto" which gets him and Natalie in what heap of trouble ... to say the least. It's where he challenges the world of Islam and where the world of Islam challenges back. This triadic conclusion is a MUST READ!