AD 2040: Clear and Present Danger

About the Book

It’s 2039, and over the past fifteen years, the U.S. has gone through bankruptcy and collapse of the federal government, a second Great Depression, establishment of a military government, and martial law. Although now in economic recovery, the long-neglected HIV/AIDS epidemic is ravaging the country. Over a quarter of the U.S. population is feared infected. Infiltrated by religious-right fundamentalists, the government has mandated nation-wide HIV testing, and their solution the HIV/AIDS nemesis is shocking. A second civil war seems imminent. This leaves Reverend Gerald Fall and Lillian, his spouse, in a dilemma. Their lives go through a roller coaster ride of events and discoveries about what’s really happening in the police state of America. This journey may cost them their lives. They experience a surreal, alternate reality that stimulates serious re-evaluation of the religious-right, Biblical inerrancy, Bible abuse, hypocrisy, bigotry, homophobia, and twisted Christian dogma.

About the Author

R. Grantham West was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Elementary & secondary schooling was in Affton, a suburb of south St. Louis County. A graduate of Affton Senior High, he continued his education, graduating from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, majoring in Geosciences. Raised in a devoutly Christian environment, an early awareness of purpose and calling presented itself. He found exclusionism, interdenominational rivalry, Biblical inerrancy contrasted by numerous incongruities personally troublesome. What about non-Christian faiths? 'Sola scriptura', the Bible alone, was no means to eternal salvation. Exclusion of GLBT people, his life experiences, coupled with the real world of the HIV/AIDS tragedy led to the conception of A.D. 2040 and lecturing on religious-right fundamentalism. Years in the making, the first edition was published in February, 2008, in hope of creating awareness of dangerous, religious-right conservatives, homophobia, bigotry, and hypocrisy, lest the scenario presented in A.D. 2040 come true.