March 1, 2010

Minnetonka, MN – Judging from news reports, people are fed up with everything today from elected officials to healthcare, unemployment, terrorists – you name it! Well, fasten your seat belt, because Alan Beck's A Faithful Proposal (IGI Publishing) is about to take you on a frenzied ride through the irritable bowels of healthcare, into the hardening heart of mainstream and fringe contemporary religions, on down to the drug-induced pseudo-worship of corporate and individual greed.

Brooks McRump, CEO of Bonanza insurance companies, resigns and joins forces with his former COO, retired psychiatrist Steve Kopfklopper, and they set off to revolutionize religions with the use of the internet. Stopping at nothing in their quest to acquire them all, they hold Religious Idol contests and advertise the number of prayers transmitted on gleaming white arches of a sports stadium. Guests get an education and ‘virtual tour' of the history of religion at Faith Mountain, where they get parachuted down to meet founders of all religions, visit Heaven and Hell, and witness magical moments in religious history.

Easily luring high profile religious leaders to their ranks with "perks," the number of new centers soon increases and as word spreads to network television, McRump gets a live interview with Larry King. Rifle Rae Virgin is recruited as a new leader and she succeeds in uniting the newer faith counselors in testing the souls of the founding fathers of Faith America. To soothe the envy that is surfacing among the counselors for their leaders, they get wined and dined in Florida where they meet an Indian chief who shares surprising visions with them.

The compelling messages that are blended into the expert prose of A Faithful Proposal are evident when fate takes a hand in suppressing the ambitions and greed of the leaders, and true faith and family values emerge at the end to save the day. Please visit this creative writer's website at http://www.afaithfulproposal.com/.

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