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Title: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: FieryLocks on January 15, 2015, 09:47:47 PM
SURPRISE!
QuoteThe subject of the top-selling Christian book The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven has recanted his story about life after death, prompting bookstores to pull it from their shelves, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

“I did not die. I did not go to Heaven,” Alex Malarkey said in a statement published on the Christian site Pulpit and Pen. “I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention. When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible. People have profited from lies, and continue to. They should read the Bible, which is enough. The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man cannot be infallible.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/10-year-old-author-of-best-selling-christian-book-admits-he-never-came-back-from-heaven/
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: aitm on January 15, 2015, 09:54:36 PM
wow..what a surprise this is……I mean W.O.W. I am totally surprised….sheesh
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: PickelledEggs on January 15, 2015, 09:57:09 PM
I was king of hoping that it was that other kid from "heaven is for real" when I read the thread title, but I'll take what I can get.
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: dtq123 on January 15, 2015, 10:12:01 PM
Next time kid, go to a confessional. You can tell them anything :winkle:

Too late now.
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: doorknob on January 15, 2015, 10:16:29 PM
I also was hoping it's the kid from heaven is for real. But same difference I guess.

why are they pulling these books from the shelves? That seems like a waste. I'd like to see what the kid wrote about when he lied!

No I guess they should pull it as some idiots will keep on believing the lie.
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: gussy on January 16, 2015, 12:15:04 AM
I had high hopes for the kid in his pursuit of taking money from stupid people.  'The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven' by Malarky should have been a dead giveaway.
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: Mr.Obvious on January 16, 2015, 02:22:00 AM
QuoteThey should read the Bible, which is enough. The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man cannot be infallible.”

Error error.
Does not compute.
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: Hydra009 on January 16, 2015, 03:19:48 AM
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on January 16, 2015, 02:22:00 AM
Error error.
Does not compute.
Well, you see, the Bible is written by man.  Anything written by man is fallible.  Therefore, the Bible is infallible.

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Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: Cocoa Beware on January 16, 2015, 05:50:52 PM
If I know Christians... the denial kicked in immediately and nothing now will convince them the book belongs in the "fiction" section in spite of the author's insistence.

Its too late for any of this. They read the book, believed it, and now it is irrecoverably true because for the irrecoverably gullible, thats all you need for something to be irrecoverably true.

Whatever the kid says now can simply be chalked up in the "Mysterious Ways/Testing Our Faith" category.

Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: SGOS on January 16, 2015, 06:39:18 PM
Quote“I did not die. I did not go to Heaven,” Alex Malarkey said in a statement published on the Christian site Pulpit and Pen.

I don't know what to believe now.  His last name seems appropriate, however.
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: GrinningYMIR on January 16, 2015, 06:40:26 PM
Quote from: SGOS on January 16, 2015, 06:39:18 PM
I don't know what to believe now.  His last name seems appropriate, however.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogq3S6jW76s

reminded me of this

Bullshit is bullshit, even if a kid says it
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: MagetheEntertainer on January 17, 2015, 08:23:47 PM
Quote from: PickelledEggs on January 15, 2015, 09:57:09 PM
I was king of hoping that it was that other kid from "heaven is for real" when I read the thread title, but I'll take what I can get.

Don't worry, let the guilt build in him and it will soon come.
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on January 18, 2015, 10:48:23 AM
It must have been satan making him say it was just a lie. I mean the description and all because everyone knows satan is the charismatic dude, good looking and shit..
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: Youssuf Ramadan on January 18, 2015, 11:23:50 AM
I heard the squealing tyres of thousands of Xtians pulling a U-turn....
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: ApostateLois on January 18, 2015, 02:03:53 PM
Only Christians are surprised by this news. The rest of us knew all along that the kid was either lying or hallucinating.
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: Savior2006 on January 19, 2015, 05:47:21 PM
It's funny how nobody thinks that in the periods between them being unconscious and the heart stopping that maybe they had a dream about something like everyone else on the planet has when they are not conscious.

It's also funny how no Christian stops to think that maybe the kid lied in order to make his book a bestseller.

A retard and his money are soon parted.
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: Munch on January 19, 2015, 07:01:50 PM
Quote from: Savior2006 on January 19, 2015, 05:47:21 PM
It's funny how nobody thinks that in the periods between them being unconscious and the heart stopping that maybe they had a dream about something like everyone else on the planet has when they are not conscious.

It's also funny how no Christian stops to think that maybe the kid lied in order to make his book a bestseller.

A retard and his money are soon parted.

I don't think it was the kid that wanted in for a book deal, it was the father and all religious people around him. All it took was for a 6 year old to describe that in his subconscious he saw some things, and durr Christians wove what he said into there own interpretation of it, like they do with everything else.
Title: Re: 10 Year Old Author Of 'The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven' Admits To Lying
Post by: MatildaGage on January 19, 2015, 10:35:32 PM
Quote from: aitm on January 15, 2015, 09:54:36 PM
wow..what a surprise this is……I mean W.O.W. I am totally surprised….sheesh
You mean you're surprised he admitted it, right? ;)