THE MUSTARD SEED 2154, subtitled THE REBIRTH OF EMPATHY by John T. Hourihan Jr.

The following is written on the back cover of the latest book by John T. Hourihan Jr.:

“In 2154 religion has been banned by the Republic, and religious books have been burned. One 17-year-old girl and her two friends find a copy of the Bible in an empty building in the center of the city of New Clovis, and with the help of friends and the retrieval of several other “scriptures” takes on the government following a path well known to the hidden tenets of Christianity to a similar end. The Mustard Seed – 2154, the fourth in The Mustard Seed series is a science-fiction adventure novel centered around a totally new, literal and factual interpretation of the Christian religion; how it is explained in scriptures and how it is supported by scientific fact.

“Sophia Riley delves deep into all the scriptures that were discarded in the 4th century, found in the 20th century and burned in the 21st century, and uses the information to try to explain to the foundering world the message that Jesus Christ was trying to impart during his trials on Earth. Riley finds out what her parents had found out in the earlier books in the series, that technology is the same as human genetics, scripture is science, war is the same as peace, and god is not God. She finds through her investigation of how mankind has progressed from being a curious little biped through history and pre-history into several groups scattered around the planet and led by fallen angels who mated with human women and pretended to be gods of their respective nations of human slaves. She is finally found, arrested, and put on trial for her life where she tries her best to explain what every leader on the face of the Earth who passed as a god told to their “worshippers” of the same cure for the evils of men and gods.

“Before his retirement, John Hourihan was a local, state, regional and national award-winning opinion columnist for four different newspapers in the New England area. He was born into a large and unwealthy Irish Catholic family in Massachusetts and used four years in the Army, three tours in Vietnam as a linguist, to pay for his college education when he returned. He currently lives in rural Massachusetts with his wife and fellow author Linda Hourihan. Due to Agent Orange he is designated a 100 percent disabled combat veteran. While there he was awarded the Cross of Gallantry for Valor in the Face of the Enemy.”

His other works are:

The Mustard Seed 2095