Melvin Fechter

America-2151! Melvin Fechter

AMERICA-2151! is a tale 140 years into the future of America in days of unemployment, destitution, and violence. In it the Reverend John Sand Forrester, the charismatic founder of a new Christian faith, promises peace, love, and reconciliation but rallies 100,000,000 to his new "One True Faith" with the guarantee of salvation only for his followers. All others are destined for hell or purgatory. He seeks to return America to prosperity by amending the First Amendment to declare America a Christian nation, excising its immorality, and driving all non-Christians from the land. Jews must go first because they are murderers of the Lord, but ultimately all must go who are not of his new faith, the Brotherhood of Jesus Christ. Forrester's daughter Susan falls in love with a young Jewish geneticist whose experiments are anathema to her father. The nation, too, in the time of the story has many Muslims...