Children of the Good

My favorite part of the book was by far the description of how the world came to be entirely secular. Mr. Whelan described a detailed and intricate set of circumstances that lead to the demise of religion. The story involves multiple characters, vast settings, and spans several centuries. I was so impressed by this section that I flew through it in about a half hour, and promptly read it again. It eventually gets us to the backstory of the primary antagonist of the book, and describes the harrowing rise of the secular world. Mr. Whelan painted a fascinating and vivid picture of the evil side of this conflict. -- Anthony Ramion, reviewer, obsessivebooknerd.com

If everyone on Earth stopped believing in God... Would He still exist? Would He still care?

In a near-future America that looks a whole lot like today...

A foreign-born Antichrist sits in the White House, and through the the power of the Presidency, secretly rules the world...

Religion as we know it has been outlawed, and all knowledge of the old beliefs has been wiped from human memory...

A State-sponsored, New Age cult of self-worship has taken organized religion's place, and controls the hearts and minds of the world. The Gospel of Self denies the existence of objective good or evil, and preaches moral relativism and the virtue of selfishness ...

In the Midwest small town of Arkady, a luminous woman begins appearing to children. She tells them a story about a real living Evil that has taken over their world, and of an objective, loving Good that is on its way to save them. Her son – her seed is the mysterious term she uses – will crush the Evil and bring Good back to the world...

But not if President for Life Michael Oglesby has anything to say about it. When a series of prophecies appear to be coming true, with one very special little girl at their center, a hidden Remnant of believers emerge to rally around the child... While forces of darkness mobilize to destroy her at any cost...